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M.I.T., Rotch Visual Collections


Visual Communications in Building Technology Project


1.0 SIXTY STATE STREET...A History

November l, 1975. A bright blue Boston morning. 6,000 cubic yards of concrete are being spread over a 6-foot-deep cage of steel reinforcing bars 40 feet below Dock Square. Eight concrete trucks at a time help create the largest single pour in New England's history. This is the first stage in the construction of a modern highrise office building at the corner of State and Congress, which completes the ambitious Government Center Urban Renewal Project.

Watching from their 34th floor offices in the New England Merchants Bank Building across Congress Street, officials at Cabot, Cabot and Forbes record a long awaited milestone in an agonizing development process that stretched over nearly a decade. The efforts of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes began in earnest in 1966. Only in December, 1974, after long delays caused by political and financial roadblocks, a complicated approval process, and changing design strategies, could excavation for the Sixty State Project begin.

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