Boston Garden Had a Different Name When It Opened
TD Garden is located at 100 Legends Way in Boston, and for good reason. There are a lot of championship banners hanging from the rafters at the arena.
The Boston Celtics have strung 17 championship banners and 22 retired numbers from the ceiling at the Garden. That's the most of any NBA team. The Boston Bruins have six Stanley Cup championship banners and 10 retired numbers high above the parquet floor – or the ice – depending on who is in town.
TD Garden opened in 1995. The arena will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2025.
TD Garden is owned and operated by Delaware North-Boston, a subsidiary of Delaware North.
The 755,000-square-foot arena was privately financed and constructed using no public money. The cost of construction was $160 million.
TD Garden has seven elevators, 13 escalators, 47 concession stands, 90 executive suites, and 1,100 club seats. The seating capacity for hockey games is 17,850 and 19,156 for basketball. The maximum seating capacity is 19,580.
Before TD Garden opened, the Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics played home games at the Boston Garden at 150 Causeway Street.
Ground was broken for the Boston Garden in December 1927. It opened less than a year later on November 17, 1928. The cost of construction was $4 million.
The original owner, Boston and Maine Corporation, sold the arena in 1965 to Linnell & Cox, which sold it to Storer Broadcasting in 1973. Delaware North purchased the property in 1975 and held it until 1997.
Boston Garden was demolished in 1998, three years after TD Garden opened.
Here is something you might not know: the first name of the original Boston Garden was Boston Madison Square Garden. Tex Rickard designed and built it as the third iteration of New York's Madison Square Garden. The name was later shortened to Boston Garden.
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