Louisburg Square, top residential addresses in Boston
Louisburg Square in the middle of Beacon Hill is still among the top residential addresses in Boston. Elegant, red brick buildings surround a narrow park between Pinckney Street and Mt. Vernon Street. The rowhouses were built around 1840.
Boston personalities such as the publisher of Atlantic Monthly, William Dean Howells, or the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, could afford the high rent. In 1852, Jenny Lind, a famous opera singer at the time, tied the knot at number 20 and almost president John Kerry and his wife Mrs. Teresa Heinz could also call this address home.