Louisburg Square

Even the Secretary of State has to shovel his sidewalk in Boston

By adamg - 1/29/15 - 2:09 pm

Louisberg Square on Beacon Hill in the snow

In response to a citizen complaint yesterday about an unshoveled sidewalk outside the Kerry/Heinz homestead on Beacon Hill, the city said today:

Case Closed. TICKET: Ticket Issued.

Where's the Secretary?

By adamg - 8/31/13 - 9:10 pm

Michael Buell photographed a protest against military action in Syria outside John Kerry's Louisburg Square digs this afternoon.

Until somebody tells us otherwise, we'll just assume this is how John and Teresa celebrated Halloween last night

By adamg - 11/1/12 - 10:31 am

Troublewithtribbles photographed this building-sized Halloween decoration on one of the stately manors of Louisburg Square last night.

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Coyote makes way to Louisburg Square; police shoot it dead

By adamg - 1/16/11 - 6:04 pm

Channel 5 reports the coyote was shot when it tried to escape down an alley this morning. Boston Police tweet it was state environmental police who shot the canine, not them.

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How to live like John Kerry

By adamg - 2/8/08 - 9:52 am

Cosmo Catalano surveys the current offerings around Louisburg Square.

The whores of Beacon Hill

By adamg - 6/13/06 - 9:46 am

J.L. Bell picks up Charles Swift's post on Mt. Whoredom's conversion to Louisburg Square with more details on Boston's original Combat Zone:

... The British officers clearly savored the irony of the puritanical town having a red-light district. And perhaps some savored the district as well.

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Sometimes, it makes sense to change an area's name

By adamg - 6/12/06 - 8:38 pm

OK, so real-estate brokers trying to turn East Boston into EaBo should be, if not shot, at least run out of town. Charles Swift notes that Louisburg Square, today the deluxiest of deluxe Beacon Hill addresses, was once known as Mount Whoredom.