Louisburg Square

How to live like John Kerry

adamg — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:52:43 -0500

Cosmo Catalano surveys the current offerings around Louisburg Square.

The whores of Beacon Hill

adamg — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:46:20 -0400

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.

Gen. George Washington, on the other hand, used a delicate misspelling when writing to the Continental Congress on 7 Mar 1776 about contingency plans to storm Boston ...

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

adamg — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:38:30 -0400

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.