Architecture sights in Boston
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Rocky Neck Art Colony
The artistic legacy of Gloucester native Fitz Hugh Lane endures, as Gloucester still boasts a vibrant artists community at Rocky Neck Art Colony. The association operates the cooperative Bryan Gallery in a beautiful space overlooking Smith Cove.
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Cathedral of the Holy Cross
When this neo-Gothic cathedral was built in 1875, it was America’s largest Catholic cathedral, as big as Westminster Abbey. It serves as the main cathedral for the archdiocese of Boston and the seat of the archbishop. The exquisite rose window features King David playing his harp, while the rest of the cross-shaped building is peppered with stained-glass windows and traditional church art.
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Boston College
The nation’s largest Jesuit community. The large green campus has Gothic towers, stained glass, a good art museum and excellent Irish and Catholic ephemera collections in the library. Its basketball and football teams are usually high in national rankings.
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Sears Crescent
The City Hall Plaza’s high points are the gracefully curved brick Sears Crescent, one of the few buildings that remains from the Scollay Sq days, and the sweeping curve of the modern Center Plaza, which mirrors Sears Crescent.
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Massachusetts State House
High atop Beacon Hill, Massachusetts’ leaders and legislators attempt to turn their ideas into concrete policies and practices within the State House. Charles Bulfinch designed the commanding state capitol, but it was Oliver Wendell Holmes who called it ‘the hub of the solar system’ (thus earning Boston the nickname ‘the Hub’). For most of the 18th century the seat of the Massachusetts government was the Old State House. After the revolution, when state leaders decided they needed an upgrade, they chose the city’s highest peak – land that was previously part of John Hancock’s cow pasture. Other Sons of Liberty also had their hands in building the new capitol, literally: S…
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Tory Row
West of Harvard Sq, this mansion-lined section of Brattle St was a bastion of British sympathizers in the 18th century.
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Trinity Church
The ornate French-Romanesque Trinity Church is the masterwork of architect HH Richardson.
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