Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company building

The Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company building is a historic utility company building at 25–39 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°21′8″N 71°3′51″W
Built	1906
Architect	Winslow & Bigelow; Bigelow & Wadsworth
Architectural style	Beaux Arts
MPS	Boston Theatre MRA
NRHP reference No.	80000453[1]
Added to NRHP	December 9, 1980

The seven-story Beaux Arts building was constructed in 1906 to a design by Winslow & Bigelow and enlarged in 1922 to a design by Bigelow & Wadsworth. It served as the headquarters of the Boston Edison Illuminating Company until the 1950s. It is an early skyscraper with Beaux Arts detailing and made of limestone.^[2]

In 1980 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places;^[1] in 1984 it was purchased to become the home of Saint Francis House.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts