Fleet Financial Center is built.
1988
[1989-Pounds] Architect: Graham Gund Architects. And Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Originally the BankBoston Building, it is located at 75 State Street. The building features a polychromatic granite facade highlighted with glittering gold adornments, which prompts Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell to call it “[A] painted lady . . . the Tammy Faye Baker of architecture.”
Sources
- Morgan, Keith N.
- Southworth, Susan and Michael