Financial District

The Financial District is a district of Boston in the Commonwealth in 2287.^{[Non-game 1]}

Background[]

The Financial District was the commercial center of Boston, and one of the city's most modernized districts prior to the Great War. Despite the heavy development, some vestiges of historical Boston can still be seen in the district: the Old Corner Bookstore, home to the historic publishing house Ticknor and Fields and visited by many eminent authors of the mid-19th century;^[1] Faneuil Hall, a colonial-era merchant hall and a stage for protest activities during the Revolutionary War;^[2] and the Old State House in Scollay Square, the oldest public building in Boston and the former seat of Massachusetts' government before the construction of the "new" Massachusetts State House. Each of these landmarks became tourist stops on the Freedom Trail, which runs south-to-north through the Financial District, entering from Boston Common and continuing to the North End.

Surrounded by the elevated freeway (and monorail) providing access through and between downtown Boston, the Financial District was home to some of the tallest skyscrapers of Boston's pre-War skyline. The tallest skyscraper in Boston by height (with Trinity Tower coming close second), the Mass Fusion building (headquarters of Mass Fusion) dominated Boston's skyline with its unique architectural design, accompanied by other, smaller corporate towers such as the Baxter building or 35 Court built along Congress Street. The district was also serviced by two metro stops: Scollay Square Station and Postal Square Station.

Many of these structures did not survive the Great War intact. Over time, parts of buildings if not entire buildings have collapsed, littering the streets with their rubble. What structures are left standing often have gaping holes and whole missing sections, the tallest of which are sometimes no more than skeletal. The end result is that enterprising explorers are just as likely to fall to death as they are to succumb to the hostile super mutants, raiders, or Gunners competing for territory.^{[Non-game 2]} Much of the elevated freeway has survived, and provides vertical access to the rooftops and upper floors of various buildings, as well as a relatively safe method of cutting through the city center.

Meanwhile, the historic Scollay Square has become the site of another settlement, Goodneighbor, founded in 2240 by criminals exiled from Diamond City.^[3] It has since grown to be the second-largest settlement in the Commonwealth, home to ghouls, drifters, and outlaws who just didn't fit anywhere else.

Layout[]

Located south of Beacon Hill and the North End, east of Boston Common, north of the Theater District, and west of Boston Harbor,^{[Non-game 1]} the Financial District contains the following locations:

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Appearances[]

The Financial District appears only in Fallout 4.

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