451 Washington St, Dorchester, MA

Original Grocery Tenant: A&P
Address: 451 Washington St, Dorchester, MA

Opened: early 1940s

Closed: early 1970s

Later Tenants: church > CVS

Photographed: June 15, 2019

We're checking out two stores here at the corner of Washington and Park near Dorchester Center. This 13,000 square foot CVS was originally an A&P, which opened around the early 1940s and closed by the 1970s. I don't know if it remained a supermarket after that, but by the mid-00s it had become a church, and CVS by early 2019. Across the street is the original location of Daily Table Grocery, the nonprofit grocer that now has several locations in and around Boston. Check that store out here, and tomorrow, we'll head a couple blocks south on Washington Street for our next supermarket!