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Boston Athenaeum
The Boston Athenaeum is one of the oldest private library institutions in America. It was founded in 1807, and it grew out of a slightly earlier organization known as the Anthology Society which had…
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…
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…
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John Hancock Tower (1976)
The CEO of the John Hancock Mutual Insurance Company, Robert Slater, was an aggressive man, who had great expectations for his company. To express the success of the company, he wanted to construct a large headquarters after their rival,…
MIT Baker House Dormitory
Aalto exhumed a great level of detail in his architecture and each building was considered a complete work of art. Aalto’s career exhibits an expression of an enriched use of organic forms, natural materials and functionalism with an overall…
Boston Public Library
MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center
World renowned architect, Frank Gehry, is widely considered to be one of the world’s most significant and influential contributors to contemporary art and architecture. Frank Gehry’s mystifying use of forms, shapes, and building materials have…
Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library was built in 1895 across from Trinity Church in Copley Square. With 23 million items, it is the third largest public library in the United States. The library has two connected buildings: the McKim and the Johnson. The McKim…
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…
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