Hayden Building, commercial building in Boston
The Hayden Building is a four-story commercial structure with a stone facade on Washington Street in Boston. It displays the Richardsonian Romanesque style with rounded window frames and quarry-faced stone surfaces, giving the building a solid and distinctive appearance.
The building was created in 1875 by architect Henry Hobson Richardson after an earlier drugstore on the site was destroyed by explosion. It remains the only surviving commercial work by Richardson in Boston.
The Hayden Building sits on Washington Street in Boston's Chinatown area and displays the architectural language of the late 1800s. The rounded windows and rough stone surface shape the street's appearance and remind visitors of the time when such commercial structures defined the cityscape.
The Hayden Building sits on a busy street in the Chinatown neighborhood and is easily reached on foot. Access is straightforward from Washington Street, and the building is visible from outside at any time.
The building survived a devastating fire in the 1990s that damaged the roof and left it facing decay. A preservation organization paid over one million dollars to stabilize the structure and bring it back to life.
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