Warren Street

Warren Street, originally known as Back Street, is a very old Charlestown thoroughfare – possibly the oldest street in Charlestown – dating as early as 1638. It was renamed Warren Street in honor of Gen. Joseph Warren, who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Eleven houses built between the late 1830s and 1892, and two church buildings are included in the survey:

Two wood frame Federal houses (1800-1812).
Seven wood frame Greek Revival houses (late 1830-1840s).
One High Victorian Gothic/Mansard house (1871).
One wood frame late Italianate house (? 1885-92).
A Romanesque Revival/Queen Anne Parochial School (1901-2).
A Gothic Revival Roman Catholic Church (1187 – 92).

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.

Peter Tufts 1818.