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The New England Holocaust Memorial (NEHM) in Boston, MA was designed by architect Stanley Saitowitz and was dedicated in 1995. Located directly on the Freedom Trail across the street from Boston City Hall, it consists of six glass towers with…

The original Back Bay station was built in 1899 by the New Haven Railroad Company, but new societal implications demanded a more modern station to be built in 1987. The lead architect was Kallmann McKinnell & Wood; who were also designed Boston’s…

In early 1911, John I. Taylor, the first owner of the Boston Red Sox scouted locations across Boston for a new ball park to be built. After a plot of land between Ipswich and Lansdowne Street was found, construction of the now famous Fenway Park…

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