Louisburg Square
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Louisburg Square is a private square located in the Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston. It was named for the 1745 Battle of Louisburg, in which Massachusetts Militiamen led by William Pepperrell, who was made the first American baronet for his role, sacked the French Fortress located on the site. The Greek Revival houses around the square reflect the rarefied privilege enjoyed by the 19th century upper class in Beacon Hill. The Atlantic Monthly editor William Dean Howells, teacher A. Bronson Alcott and his daughter, author Louisa May Alcott, are among the famous people who have lived there in the 19th Century. Currently it is the most expensive residential neighborhood in the country, and an oft-included landmark in walking tours and guidebooks. U.S. Senator John Forbes Kerry owns a townhouse on Louisburg Square. The average cost of a townhouse on the street exceeds $6 million and reaches as high as $20 million.
The land the square now occupies was derogatively called "Mount Whoredom" in the late 18th Century. [1]
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