John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Building (fourth) is dedicated.

Architect: Henry Cobb. Pie, Cobb, Freed & Partners. Also called the New John Hancock or Hancock Tower, it is designed in the Modernist style and located at 200 Clarendon Street. Ground was broken on September 21, 1968, but completion delayed due to problems with its reflective glass windows and the need to stabilize the building against high winds. The tallest building in New England, its design is initially criticized, but a 1994 poll ranks it as Boston’s third best building (after Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library). Humorist poet Felicia Lamport subsequently writes, “‘It’s a constant delight to the viewer,’/As someone was recently saying,/’And if the old vistas are fewer, /Well, that is the price I.M. Pei-ing.’” After the Hancock company moves to the Seaport District in 2004, the building is renamed Two Hundred Clarendon Street. A new Hancock headquarters building (fifth) is built on Berkeley Street in 2019.*