Second Brazer Building

Boston, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Located at 25–29 State Street in Boston, the Second Brazer Building is an eleven-story office tower designed by Cass Gilbert and completed in 1897—notably Gilbert's only work in Boston, built the same year he secured the commission for the Minnesota State Capitol. Rising 125 feet, this early local exemplar of steel-frame construction with curtain walls exhibits Beaux-Arts styling and features a trapezoidal footprint with uniform fenestration across its northern, eastern, and southern facades. Its exterior combines limestone cladding on the lower three stories with terra cotta above. The structure replaced the original Brazer Building, a Greek Revival design by Isaiah Rogers erected in 1842, which in turn stood on the site of Boston's first meetinghouse, founded in 1632—a legacy marked by a plaque on the building's north facade. The Second Brazer Building was designated a Boston Landmark in 1985 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.