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Post Office Square (est. 1874) in Boston, Massachusetts is located in the financial district at the intersection of Milk, Congress, Pearl and Water Streets.〔Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. (A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston ). Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910.〕〔http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/streetbook/〕 It was named in 1874 after the post office which fronted it, now replaced by the John W. McCormack Post Office and Court House. As of 2009 the square is almost entirely occupied by a privately owned and managed but publicly accessible park, Norman B. Leventhal Park, named for the Boston building manager and designer who designed it. It sits above a parking garage, named "The Garage at Post Office Square."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.posquare.com/ )〕 The garage lies below the surface, the deepest point of excavation in the city. Revenues from parking fund the maintenance of the park. The park is a popular lunchtime destination for area workers. It features a cafe, fountains, and a pergola around a central lawn, and the management provides seat cushions for visitors during the summer. Designed by landscape architects (The Halvorson Company ), the park is also home to "125 species of plants." Also on the square is the New England Telephone Building, where the laboratory in which the first telephone was built has been reconstructed. Harvard University reached an agreement with the Friends of Post Office Square to place six large trees from its Arnold Arboretum collection on permanent loan in the square, but, as of 2003, only one remains.〔http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~ajp00025〕 == History == Post Office Square was the site of a 1964 speech by Lyndon B. Johnson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks in Boston at Post Office Square )〕 There was a transformer explosion and fire in the One Post Office Square building in December 1986. An electric company worker was killed but fortunately it was after normal business hours and the building was able to be evacuated with only a few injuries. It was also the site of the now-closed Boston Claim Assistance Site of the September 11th Victim Compensation Program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.usdoj.gov/archive/victimcompensation/boston_site.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Post Office Square, Boston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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