Stories tagged "boston": 4
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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, Mission Hill, and Roxbury neighborhoods, this hands-on…
Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), located on Huntington Avenue in Boston Massachusetts, not only houses rare and extraordinary artifacts, but it also received one of thirteen prestigious 2011 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)…
Prudential Center
Now the Prudential is a permanent part of Boston’s skyline. Bostonians look up at it with pride and couldn’t picture the shape of their city without it. However, when the Prudential was first completed it received a lot of criticism from…
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,…