James, you can see the Brown and Berkeley buildings reflected in the side of the Hancock Tower for a kind of “family portrait.” Hancock and Art Deco
NOTE: If you stand at the corner of Clarendon and St. It currently comes in at Number 23 but will probably keep dropping as Boston’s buildings reach ever higher. From 1947 to 1964, it held the title of second-tallest building in the city (after the Custom House Tower) but has since fallen off the list of the city’s 20 tallest buildings. Where the Clarendon Street building is low and horizontal, this one rises 495 feet and 26 stories. Three years later it sold that curvy glass structure and returned to the Clarendon and Berkeley Street buildings.) In 2005 the company (purchased and renamed Manulife) moved from the Back Bay to a new building at 601 Congress Street in the Seaport District. (The third building is the famous Hancock Tower by Henry Cobb of I.M. Designed by Parker, Thomas and Rice in 1922 it’s known as the Stephen L.
The insurance company’s first structure stands at 197 Clarendon Street. The Hancock weather beacon glows blue with the Hancock tower to the right The Berkeley Street Buildingįirst, the building actually carries the official name of John Hancock Berkeley Street Building-not to be confused with the nearby Berkeley Building on the corner of Boylston and Berkeley Streets.ĭesigned by the firm of Cram and Ferguson in 1947, this structure might well be called the “middle” or “second” John Hancock Building.
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