Washington Street is laid out in Downtown Boston.

Originally High Street or Main Street, sections of it include Orange Street (from Boston Neck to today’s Boylston Street) Newbury Street (to today’s Winter Street) Marlborough Street (to today’s School Street and Cornhill (to today’s City Hall Plaza). The section from Roxbury to East Berkeley Street is renamed Washington Street in 1789, in honor of the first president’s visit to Boston, and the entire street is named Washington Street and paved along its entire length in 1824. The street is extended through Dock Square (renamed Adams Square) to Haymarket Square after the Great Fire of 1872.