Boston Garden was an
arena located in
Boston,
Massachusetts. Designed by boxing promoter
Tex Rickard, who also built the third iteration of New York's
Madison Square Garden, it opened on November 17, 1928 as "Boston Madison Square Garden" (later shortened to just "Boston Garden") and outlived its original namesake by 30 years. It was located above
North Station, a train station which was originally a hub for the
Boston and Maine Railroad and is now a hub for
MBTA Commuter Rail and
Amtrak trains. The Garden hosted home games for the
Boston Bruins of the
National Hockey League (NHL) and the
Boston Celtics of the
National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as rock concerts, amateur sports,
boxing and
professional wrestling matches, circuses, and ice shows. It was also used as an exposition hall for political rallies such as the speech by
John F. Kennedy in November 1960. Boston Garden was demolished in 1998, three years after the completion of its new successor arena, the FleetCenter, now known as the
TD Garden.