Pleasant Street
Pleasant Street, one of the earliest streets laid out after the Revolutionary War, was set out circa the late 1790s. It appears on the 1818 Peter Tufts map of Charlestown labeled South Pleasant Street.
An attractive cul-de-sac, Pleasant Street Court, arising from Pleasant Street, was built in the early 1850s. It is described separately in the survey notes.
Seven wood frame houses were included in the survey, built between 1789 and 1852.
- These included two late Georgian houses (1780, 1808);
- Two Federal houses (1805, 1825?)
- Three Greek Revival houses (1851, 1852).
Information drawn from Boston Landmark Commission’s Charlestown Historic Resources Study 1981 (E. W. Gordon, Consultant), with the addition of photographs and images from early maps and/or the Mallory Panoramic View of Charlestown, when appropriate.
