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The first house Charles Bulfinch designed for Harrison Gray Otis in the West End.. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Boston's waterfront and North End were becoming overcrowded, and many of the city's well off residents took the opportunity to develop the area now known as the West End.
Downtown Boston includes Downtown Crossing, the Financial District and Government Center. Aerial view of Back Bay and the neighboring City of Cambridge across the Charles River. Surrounding downtown are the neighborhoods of Chinatown/Leather District, South End, North End, West End, Bay Village, Beacon Hill and Back Bay.
"This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners designed a number of buildings in Boston and New England in the late 19th century." Edison-Spencer-Grafton Block, 254-264 Columbus Avenue, Boston
Huntington Avenue, Boston, near the Christian Science Center, as viewed from the Prudential Tower (2009). Huntington Avenue is a thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, beginning at Copley Square and continuing west through the Back Bay, Fenway, Longwood, and Mission Hill neighborhoods.
The Fabyan building at 26-30 West Street was designed by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, and built in 1926. The Schraffts Building at 16-24 West Street was built in 1922, and housed a flagship candy store and restaurant for more than fifty years. [2] The West Street District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
Commonwealth Avenue (colloquially referred to as Comm Ave) is a major street in the cities of Boston and Newton, Massachusetts. It begins at the western edge of the Boston Public Garden, and continues west through the neighborhoods of the Back Bay, Kenmore Square, Boston University, Allston, Brighton and Chestnut Hill.
Boylston Street in 1911. Boylston Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts and its western suburbs. The street begins in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood, forms the southern border of the Boston Public Garden and Boston Common, runs through Back Bay and Boston's Fenway neighborhood, merges into Brookline Ave and then Washington Street, emerging again ...
Melnea Cass Boulevard is a major street in Boston, Massachusetts,connecting Dudley Square in Roxbury to the South End South End.Named after prominent community and civil rights activist Melnea Cass, the boulevard has historical roots as part of the proposed—but ultimately canceled—Interstate 695 (the Inner Belt). [1]