About Cole Hersee

How to get to Cole Hersee
The 'Big Dig' has been going on now
for over a decade in downtown Boston,
and is now nearing completion.

Many of the highway exits have radically changed from what you might have known.

Cole Hersee Company
20 Old Colony Avenue
Boston MA 02127-2467
USA

Telephone: 617-268-2100
Fax: 617-268-9490

Location

Truck deliveries
From the North
From the West
From the South
By public transportation
From Logan Airport
Driving
GoogleMaps

Location of Cole Hersee
Cole Hersee has been a major employer
in South Boston for over 80 years,
so the locals all know where Cole Hersee is.
But we always have plenty of visitors
who don't know their way around South Boston…
or Massachusetts for that matter!

We're close to downtown so we can
easily see Boston from our headquarters.
We're also within easy walking distance
of the subway at Broadway.
If you're coming by car or truck, we're very close to (and just east of) Interstate 93.

Our offices and factory are a red brick building
at the intersection of Old Colony Avenue,
Dorchester Avenue, West 7th Street and B Street.
Look for our small garden at the office entrance
on Old Colony Avenue.

Truck Deliveries
Our loading dock is at the triangular point
of the brick building near the intersection
of Old Colony Avenue, Dorchester Avenue,
West 7th Street and B Street.

Do not go east of Dorchester Avenue/Old Colony Avenue: South Boston is a grid of narrow streets
that can be difficult for trucks!

Follow car directions.
If you need help, call Joe Foster:
617-268-2100 ext 382

By Car
From the North

Take I-93 southbound through the downtown tunnel.

Take Exit 20 "I-90/Albany Street" and immediately take the Albany Street fork to the left - not the Mass Turnpike I-90!

Continue at the traffic lights (don't take the on-ramp on your left). At the second set of lights take a left under the highway and onto Broadway bridge.

Broadway Bridge takes you over water and multiple railroad tracks. At the lights take an easy right onto Dorchester Avenue. You are now heading south.

Go through two sets of lights
(at West 4th St and at A St)

After you cross over a humpback bridge
you are at the traffic lights where Old Colony Avenue forks left from Dorchester Avenue. Cole Hersee loading dock is ahead on your left, with a small triangular loading yard at the traffic lights.

From the West
Travel eastbound along the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90).

Take the I-93 exit 24 A-B-C on the left toward "Concord NH/ S Station/Quincy"

Take exit 24A toward South Station.
At the lights take a left onto Kneeland street.

Turn left at the lights to take the highway ramp toward Albany Street. Stay straight to go onto Albany Street - do not go onto I-93 southbound.
You are now heading south. Take the first left underneath the elevated highway (I-93, which is on your left). This will take you over Broadway Bridge.

Broadway Bridge takes you over water and multiple railroad tracks. At the lights take a right onto Dorchester Avenue. You are now heading south.

Go through two sets of lights
(at West 4th St and at A St)

From the South

Take Interstate 93 northbound "Southeast Expressway."
Before you get downtown Boston, take "Exit 16 Andrew Square."
Take a right at the lights at the T junction onto Southampton Street. You will immediately
come to Andrew Square
(a six-point intersection with a Dunkin Donuts
on your left).
Take the extreme left (passing the front of the Andrew subway station).
Bear right at the lights (near Marr Companies)
onto D Street, then left at the lights (near the Hess gas station) onto Old Colony Avenue.
Cole Hersee is the brick building on your right,
past the Dunkin Donuts on your left (yes, another Dunkin Donuts.

By Public Transport
Take the Red Line to the Broadway station.
Exit on Dorchester Avenue (the side where there's a large new glittering glass and redbrick condo across the street).
Walk south (away from the gas station), past Doughboy Doughnuts (on your left) and the T maintenance facility (on your right).

Cole Hersee is at the traffic lights at
the intersection of Dorchester Avenue
and Old Colony Avenue. About 0.3 miles.

Massachustts Bay transit authority

From
Logan International airport
Massport website

VIA PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Take the free shuttle bus to the Blue Line subway. Take a train in the downtown (Bowdoin) direction. Change at State/Citizens Bank. You can walk underground to the Red Line at Downtown Crossing, or you can take the Orange Line (direction Forest Hills) and get off at Downtown Crossing.
Any southbound destination (ashmont or Braintree)\is OK. Get off at the Broadway stop.
Use the walking directions as above.

DRIVING
Exit the airport, via the Ted Williams tunnel (toll).

Take the 'South Boston' exit. Stay in the right lane
to the stop lights, then take a right at the lights
then take the right at the second set of lights
onto D street. Continue along D Street, with the new Convention Center on your right.

At the intersection where D Street becomes one-way (in the opposite direction) you will need to take a right to get onto B Street. D Street becomes one way immediately after Shaughnessy Crane.

Take a right (along West 1st Street) as far as you can go (two blocks), then follow the road to the left (B Street. You will cross the main road (Broadway) and at the end is Cole Hersee, on your left.