Second Brazer Building

The Second Brazer Building on State Street in Boston is an eleven-story office building designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1897. His only work in the city and an early example of steel-frame construction with curtain walls, it has a trapezoidal floor plan. The north, east, and south facades feature identical window arrangements, with the lower three floors clad in limestone and the upper floors in terra-cotta. The site's history is recorded on a plaque on the north side, which marks the location of Boston's first meetinghouse, built in 1632. The building, which stands on land once owned by the merchant John Brazer, was designated a Boston Landmark in 1985 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.