U.S. Post Office (first) is built.

Architect: Alfred Mullett. With Bryant & Estey. Designed in the French Second Empire style and built of Cape Ann granite, it is located in what comes to be called Post Office Square in 1874.* Its facade is decorated with two huge statues, Labor and Science, by Daniel Chester French. The buildings construction leads to the re-discovery of the Great Spring of Boston, near the corner of Water Street and Washington Street, which began flowing again. The building is replaced in 1885,* and the statues are relocated to Franklin Park in 1930.* The building is replaced (third) again in 1933.*