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Boston's airport used to be a tad smaller
By adamg on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 3:09pm
See it larger.
In 1925, Boston Commonwealth Airport (it had not yet been named after Gen. Edward Lawrence Logan) consisted of four hangars and one runway - which was enough for the biplanes that still used it - as shown in these photos taken by Fairchild Aerial Survey of New York.
By 1971, of course, the airport had grown, as had the size of the planes and the skyline across the harbor:
Photos from the BPL photo collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
By bostnkid on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 6:28pm.
i think they're going to need a bigger tunnel.
Spelling of 'hangar'
By Brighton-ite on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 10:40pm.
It's 'hangar' when referring to the building housing airplanes, I think.
Unless you are referring to the pilots or workers storing their clothing.
By adamg on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 11:37pm.
Oldest building?
By anon on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 9:56am.
This makes me think:
What's the oldest building at Logan now?
By Rob on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 4:32pm.
Those four original hangers are long gone.
The circa-1940 photos in the article John-W linked below - I don't think any of those buildings exist anymore, either. The airport buildings at that time were concentrated in the northwest corner of the property, in the area mostly occupied now by the rental-car building & lots, the taxi queue, etc.... I doubt anything from that far back survived in that area.
I don't know if some portion of current terminal C/former D/control tower would be oldest.
I would expect some shed or something small, a small utility building, probably out by the hangars toward the north end of the property today, would likely be the oldest structure.
Unless the senior center out at the end of Maverick Street was part of the airport at one time...
Partial answer, digging a bit
By Rob on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 2:14pm.
Partial answer, digging a bit on Google... found an article/slideshow from WCVB from three years ago.
* Terminals C & B were built on the footprint of the older Boutwell terminal building.
* Terminal C opened in 1967 and is the oldest of the four current main terminals.
* I think this Boutwell Terminal still survives, if I understand the description - the building you walk through between B & C, where the chapel is.
* The eight-story "old" control tower is described as a 1955 addition to the Boutwell
https://www.wcvb.com/article/historical-photos-logan-airport-in-the-1920...
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3634604,-71.0171689,109a,35y,337.31h,69.34t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
* The Boutwell building appears to date back at least as far as 1949
http://web.mit.edu/rama/www/logan_history.htm
FI YUH
By Chelsea Fire on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 11:05am.
Middle photo, what's with the smoke?
More airport shtuff
By John-W on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 12:43pm.
Some reading material from 1940 on Logan Airport for your edification (where "edification" means pissing away your time on-line with esoteric crapola).
But could you get off the plane and go to Santarpio's in 1925?
By necturus on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 3:41pm.
Give me liberty, or give me 'za!
By John-W on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 5:24pm.
...apparently you would have had to wait for 8 more years....
Santarpio's.
Questions ...
By Aeroguy on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 12:27pm.
The one runway was unpaved?
No seaplanes?
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