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About the Boston Public Library
The Central Library in Copley Square actually encompasses two buildings. Both Boston Public Library locations are landmarks in their own right. The first is the historic Boston Public Library McKim building, designed by …
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Union Oyster House
The Union Oyster House is a seafood restaurant on Union Street in Boston, Massachusetts, and it calls itself the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the United States. It has served customers since 1826, in a bri…
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Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial
The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial is a bronze relief on Beacon Street, facing the Massachusetts State House at the edge of Boston Common in Boston. It honors Colonel Shaw and the Black soldiers of the 54th…
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Copley Square
Copley Square gathers three landmarks around one open space: Trinity Church, the Boston Public Library's grand McKim building, and the mirrored tower that reflects them both. The contrast between heavy stone and glass is…
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Boston Common
Boston Common is a 50-acre public park in the centre of Boston, Massachusetts, laid out in 1634 and widely regarded as the oldest public park in the United States. It began as shared pasture and has been the city's open-…
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Massachusetts State House
The Massachusetts State House is the seat of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, standing on Beacon Hill in Boston. It houses the state legislature and the governor's offices, and its gold dome is one of th…
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Rachel Revere Square
Rachel Revere Square is a small public space on North Street in Boston's North End, named for Rachel Walker Revere, the second wife of Paul Revere. It sits a short walk from the Paul Revere House and the Old North Church…
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Clough House at Old North
The Clough House is a small brick house at 21 Unity Street in Boston's North End, built in the early 18th century by the master mason Ebenezer Clough. It stands right beside the Old North Church and is one of the few hou…
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, is the Mother Church of the Christian Science faith and the administrative headquarters of the denomination. It is best known for its domed church…
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Back Bay Fens
Back Bay Fens, often just called the Fens, is a public park in Boston, Massachusetts, and one of the central links in the Emerald Necklace, the chain of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. It was built on a polluted…
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Lansdowne Street
Lansdowne Street is a short street in Boston, Massachusetts, running right behind the left field wall of Fenway Park, the home of the Red Sox. It is known for two things that often overlap: baseball crowds on game days a…
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Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts, and the world's largest independent college of contemporary music. Founded in 1945, it has trained generations of performers, composers and pr…
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Rose Kennedy Rose Garden
The Rose Kennedy Rose Garden is a quiet planted garden inside Christopher Columbus Park on Boston's waterfront, set out in honor of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and of all Gold Star mothers, the mothers of service members who…
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Great Molasses Flood site
The Great Molasses Flood site is on Commercial Street in Boston's North End, where a huge steel tank of molasses burst on 15 January 1919. The wave of syrup killed 21 people and injured about 150, and it remains one of t…
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Skinny House
The Skinny House at 44 Hull Street in Boston's North End is a four-story home only about 10 feet wide, often called the narrowest house in the city. It is a private residence, but its sliver of a facade squeezed between …
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Historical Boston: The Record Breaker
80 min · EN
Places on this quest: Massachusetts State House · Boston Common
Boston Strangler: A Detective’s Hunt
131 min · EN
Places on this quest: First Church of Christ, Scientist · Back Bay Fens
North End Boston: Mafia Mission
147 min · EN
Places on this quest: Rose Kennedy Rose Garden · Great Molasses Flood site
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