Famous Custom House Tower Boston Hotel References. The north end, seaport/innovation district, chinatown, boston common, and the public garden, are a few blocks away. Custom house, completed in 1847 of granite from quincy’s pine hill quarry, was a monumental.
The 16 story tower was boston's first skyscraper and was built in 1915 by peabody and stearns. Web custom house boston, massachusetts, usa, north america boston the lower portion of the custom house, begun in 1837, resembles a greek temple, but the federal government wanted something grander, so in 1913 it exempted itself from local height restrictions and financed a 500ft tower. Web the custom house tower, which long dominated the boston skyline to the waterfront, is now a hotel.
