The Lost City
The Sign Was the Store
The building was a billboard throughout Boston's history. In the nineteenth century, sign making and other enterprises bedecked the wood-frame structure, now gone, on Washington Street at Warren Street in the South End. In the twentieth century, bold moderne letters camouflaged the Depression era's hard times on Washington Street downtown. The Adam Hats storefront and its neighbors on Hanover near Washington Street fell to the bulldozer that swept aside Scollay Square to create the vast spaces of Government Center.
