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New State House
Charles Bulfinch was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1763 to Thomas and Susan Bulfinch. Charles was sent to Harvard and graduated in 1781. However, no profession seemed to interest him during war…
Cambridge Public Library
Located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Harvard Yard, and down the street from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Cambridge Public Library represents a cultural beacon…
MIT Chapel & Kresge Auditorium
Born in a small town on the southern coast of Finland, Eero Saarinen emigrated to Michigan in the 1920s and was raised by his father Eliel, an architect, and mother Loja, a textile artist. Educated…
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Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge
The Mystic Bridge, more famously known as the Maurice J. Tobin Bridge, was constructed between April 1948 and February 1950. It replaced the Chelsea Street Bridge, which could not handle the traffic load caused by the expanding suburbs after World…
New England Holocaust Memorial
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…
Back Bay Station
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…
Cambridge Public Library
Located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Harvard Yard, and down the street from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Cambridge Public Library represents a cultural beacon attracting students, families, and people of all…
Old John Hancock Building
The Old Hancock Tower, also known as the Berkeley Building, is a landmark of Boston located in the cities famous Back Bay neighborhood. The first building of its kind in the Back Bay area which at the time was “a Boston neighborhood…
Fenway Park
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…
Boston History
A project by the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Wentworth Institute of TechnologyStudents at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, working with history professor Ella Howard, share their research with the public here. Boston History is powered by Omeka + Curatescape. Read more About Us