The Boston Landmarks Fee lately designated the Jewelers’ Constructing at Washington and Bromfield streets as town’s latest official landmark.
The constructing – initially two separate buildings erected in 1897 and 1904 – is, in accordance with a fee report:
A commanding instance of large-scale, steel-frame business structure constructed on the flip of the twentieth century in Boston’s Monetary District. It’s notable for its use of thin-skinned terra cotta cladding with unusually vibrant sculptural decoration, and its harmonious interpretation of Beaux Arts, Spanish Renaissance, and Classical Revival kinds. It’s also notable because the work of two prolific architectural corporations, Winslow & Wetherell and Arthur
Bowditch, in addition to one of many foremost constructing contractors within the nation within the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, George A. Fuller & Co. Largely intact, the property retains integrity of location, setting, design, supplies, workmanship, feeling, and affiliation.
Designation signifies that any potential modifications to the constructing’s exterior must be reviewed by the fee first.
The fee first started learning whether or not to designate the constructing as an official landmark in 1986.
