ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
"Historians call it the ‘Boston Granite Style.’ It must have been the most muscle-bound architecture ever invented in this country. Huge blocks of granite, often left deliberately rough, were piled into massive, fortress-like structures – warehouses, wharves, public works. What was being expressed? Surely the strength, wealth, and durability of Boston’s merchants and sea captains, the people who created the Granite Style in the decades before the...