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Park Square is the home of the Boston Four Seasons Hotel, the Boston Park Plaza, and nearly a dozen restaurants. To the north across Boylston Street is the Boston Public Garden. To the east is the Washington Street Theatre District. The Bay Village neighborhood is to the south, and Back Bay is to the west. [1]
Since 1636, Metro Center has served as the cultural, civic, and business center of Springfield and Western Massachusetts.The neighborhood sits on relatively flat land along the Connecticut Riverbank and stretches approximately two hundred meters inland where the first of a series of bluffs rises between the parallel Dwight and Chestnut Streets, (behind the MassMutual Center.)
Park Square. Pittsfield was settled in the 1740s, and was incorporated as a proprietary settlement in 1753. It was given a town charter in 1761. Park Square, the heart of the city, was laid out in 1790 on land donated by John Chandler Williams. It was located near the town's first colonial meeting house, which was erected in 1762. The square ...
Fitzgerald's Stearns Square Block: Fitzgerald's Stearns Square Block: February 24, 1983 : 300-308 Bridge St. Springfield: Apparently demolished. 24: Forest Park Heights Historic District: Forest Park Heights Historic District
Primus P. Mason donated Mason Square to the city for public use and sold considerable land to the McKnight Brothers, which became their eponymous neighborhood. In 1870, a group of business people led by brothers William and John McKnight planned the McKnight District as a residential community; most of it was constructed between 1870 and 1900.
Florham Park, New Jersey: Hamilton and Florence Vanderbilt Twombly: Fairleigh Dickinson University: 1897: Georgian Revival: McKim Mead & White: 11 (tie) 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m 2) Harbor Hill: Roslyn, New York: Clarence H. Mackay (demolished in 1947) 1899: Châteauesque: McKim Mead & White: 12: 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m 2) Indian Neck Hall: Oakdale ...
The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group was a monument in Park Square in Boston.Designed and sculpted by Thomas Ball and erected in 1879, its sister statue is located in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
The homes of Continental Army generals Benjamin Lincoln, John Glover, and Rufus Putnam are listed. Properties occupied by army officers during the Siege of Boston include the Longfellow House (occupied by George Washington and purchased by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in part because of that association), and the Isaac Royall House.