page_title: Children's Wharf
section_title: Hood Milk Bottle
hierarchical_section_title: Children's Wharf / Hood Milk Bottle
caption_attribution_description: Museum Wharf in Boston, home of the Hood Milk Bottle, The Children's Museum, and formerly the home of The Computer Museum (1984-2000).
context_page_description: Children's Wharf is a wharf on Congress Street in Boston, Massachusetts, on the Fort Point Channel with views of the Financial District and Boston Harbor. The wharf has sitting areas, patches of lawn, and several tourist attractions.
  By way of the Congress Street Bridge, Children's Wharf is a short walk from South Station, one of Boston's principal transportation hubs. The wharf is one of the more easily accessible locations on the Harborwalk, a newly established walking tour akin to the Freedom Trail, intended to take advantage of the change in landscape brought about by the Big Dig.
context_section_description: At 40 feet (12 m) tall and 18 feet (5.5 m) in diameter, the structure now known as the Hood Milk Bottle was originally constructed in 1933 on the banks of the Three Mile River in Taunton, Massachusetts.
  Abandoned in 1967 and photographed by Walker Evans in 1974, the bottle was cut into three sections and moved by barge to Boston in 1977. Reassembled on the wharf, the Depression-era structure resumed its original function as an ice cream stand and snack bar.
  In 2006, the bottle was "uncapped" (its original top half was sliced off and preserved) so that its base could be moved slightly and rebuilt on a newly renovated Children's Museum Plaza. It was officially re-dedicated by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino on April 20, 2007, thirty years to the day after it was moved to the wharf.
caption: The Hood Milk Bottle, originally constructed in Taunton, Massachusetts, is an iconic tourist attraction on Children's Wharf. It serves as an ice cream stand and snack bar.
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