BusinessImmigrant NeighborhoodModernNeighborhood Life A black and white photograph of a street, with early 20th-century cars going down it. A short neoclassical firehouse is on the right, and a larger white building on the left.

Bowdoin Square, Part 2: 20th & 21st Centuries

Bowdoin Square has gone through many phases, including rapid development, growing population, changing fortunes, urban renewal, and attempts at revitalization. Today the name survives mainly in the name of an MBTA station, but examination of Bowdoin Square provides insight into two and a half centuries of Boston history. This article, the second part of two, covers the history of the square in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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