T Wharf is built.
1718
(ca.) Built by the Minot family, it is a perpendicular appendage to Long Wharf and initially intersects with the remnants of the old Barricado. The first granite wharf warehouse in Boston is built here in 1834 and additional warehouses are completed in 1883. The wharf becomes the center of Boston’s fishing industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Boston Fish Pier relocates here from 1884 until it moves to its current location in 1915.* Later the home of artists, the wharf begins to disintegrate, and is demolished to form a larger “Great Cove” as part of the Waterfront urban renewal plan in the early 1960s.
Sources
- & Boston Redevelopment Authority
- Kay, Jane Holtz