Running tour · Boston

Tea, Milk and Fish

1.5 mi run

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The stories on this route

1. Hood Milk Bottle

   Look at the giant milk bottle on the plaza. It's 40 feet tall, and made entirely of wood. If it were a real bottle, it would hold more than 58,000 gallons of milk. Arthur Gagner built it in Taunton in the 1930s, to sell his homemade ice cream.

2. Fort Point warehouses

   Look at the brick lofts with their arched windows, and find a round bronze medallion on a facade. It's marked with a date and the monogram of the Boston Wharf Company.

3. Boston Tea Party Ships

   Look at the two sailing ships moored beside the museum. They're replicas of the Eleanor and the Beaver, two of the original tea ships. The real ones tied up at Griffin's Wharf. One study places it near the foot of today's Pearl Street. Its exact spot has long been uncertain.

4. Moakley Courthouse

   Look at the courthouse, its long brick face, and the great curved glass wall that looks out over the harbor. This is the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, on Fan Pier at the mouth of the Fort Point Channel. It holds 27 courtrooms, for the federal district court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

5. Institute of Contemporary Art

   Look at the glass building with its top floor reaching out over the boardwalk toward the harbor. This is the Institute of Contemporary Art.

6. Boston Fish Pier

   Look down the pier, between the two long matching buildings, to the Fish Exchange at the far end. Find the panels up top, with scallops, lobsters, crabs and swordfish.

Stories researched October 2026 · every fact checked against a source