Newspaper Row (b/w photo)

In its heyday, from the late 1800s to the early 1940s, the area was home to many of Bostons newspapers. As Boston Globe historian Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr. explains, In the pre-radio era, newspapers along the Row, which began at Milk Street and wound its way down to the Old State House about 200 yards away, spread the news not only in their broadsheet pages but also on blackboards and bulletin boards outside their offices that would lure large crowds anxious to get the very latest telegraphic news flashes on big events like elections, John L. Sullivans latest fight, and the World Series.