Winthrop Building is an historic steel frame skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...

 at 7 Water Street (intersection with Washington Street) in Boston, Massachusetts.

The early skyscraper was built in 1894 on the site of Puritan Governor John Winthrop

John Winthrop

John Winthrop was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer, and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of migrants from England in 1630, and served as governor for 12 of...

's second house (mansion house) in downtown Boston. The building was added to the National Historic Register in 1974. Famous tenants include Landscape Architect Fletcher Steele

Fletcher Steele

Fletcher Steele was an American landscape architect credited with designing and creating over 700 gardens from 1915 to the time of his death....

in the 1920s.