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Custom House Tower

Boston, United States

The 758th tallest building in the world

151 m · 495 ft

The Custom House Tower is a skyscraper in McKinley Square, in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts. The original building, the Custom House, was constructed between 1837 and 1847 and was designed by Ammi Burnham Young in the Greek Revival style. The tower was designed by Peabody and Stearns and was added between 1913 and 1915. The building is part of the Custom House District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Standing at 496 ft (151 m) tall, the building is Boston's 24th-tallest building. Since 1997, it has housed a Marriott timeshare hotel.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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