The Dainty Dot Hosiery building is located at the corner of Kingston and Essex Streets, between Chinatown and the Leather District. It was planned and built in 1889-1890, and half of the building was lopped off in order to build the surface artery, leaving behind just 6 stories and 53,000 square feet. Just over a year ago, in November of 2006, the building was purchased by a developer who is supposedly planning on making the building into housing (Boston Globe article here).
