{"id":4252,"date":"2012-03-22T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2012-03-22T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:03:00","slug":"second-brazer-building-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4252","title":{"rendered":"Second Brazer Building (1896)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Second-Brazer-Building.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Second Brazer Building\" width=\"500\" height=\"742\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Second-Brazer-Building.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Second-Brazer-Building-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktown.com\/Batch34\/IMG_4155.JPG\">Second Brazer Building<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/Images_Documents\/27%20State%20Second%20Brazer%20Study%20Report_tcm3-19718.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), an early steel-frame skyscraper in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamtonyang.com\/index.php?date=100212\">Boston<\/a> is located at 25-29 State Street, across from the <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=41\">Old State House<\/a>, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bostonlandmarkscommission\/6329613698\/\">intersection<\/a> with Devonshire Street.  Built in 1896, it replaced the original three-story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/5737314874\/\">Brazer&#8217;s Building<\/a> of 1842, which had stood on the same spot.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Brazer_Building\">Second Brazer Building<\/a> is the only Boston <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cassgilbertsociety.org\/works\/boston-brazer\/\">commission<\/a> of New York architect <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cass_Gilbert\">Cass Gilbert<\/a> and features decorative terra-cotta on the upper floors.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bostonlandmarkscommission\/6329830714\/\">The building<\/a> has a trapezoidal foundation plan to fit the irregular street grid pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Brazer Building (pdf), an early steel-frame skyscraper in Boston is located at 25-29 State Street, across from the Old State House, at the intersection with Devonshire Street. Built in 1896, it replaced the original three-story Brazer&#8217;s Building of 1842, which had stood on the same spot. The Second Brazer Building is the only Boston commission of New York architect Cass Gilbert and features decorative terra-cotta on the upper floors. The building has a trapezoidal foundation plan to fit the irregular street grid pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,87,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston","category-businesses","category-beaux-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}