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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…
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…
Wentworth Institute of Technology
April 5, 1904, one year after the death of it’s founder, Arioch Wentworth, Wentworth Institute would be chartered as a school for the “mechanical arts.” Located at the intersection of the Fenway,…
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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,…
Boston Public Library
Boston City Hall
Kallmann and Michael McKinnell. Kallmann was a professor and McKinnell was a graduate student, both at Columbia University in New York (Kallmann 33). After winning the competition, these two would go on on to establish the Kallmann McKinnell & Wood…
Faneuil Hall
In 1740, Peter Faneuil offered the marketplace as a gift to the city, which he knew could become a centralized market to bring the city closer together. The decision to build the market was highly controversial amongst the citizens and clergymen of…
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner is known as an eccentric and bold woman of her time. Gardner and her husband Jack had one son in 1863, who died from pneumonia at two years old. A year later, she miscarried a baby girl. After learning she could no longer…
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…
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