Boston Downtown
Podcasts
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Modernism in Boston - Part 09: 1950s Politics and Building Projects - David Fixler
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Modernism in Boston - Part 01: Beginning of Modernism in New England - David Fixler
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Modernism in Boston - Part 16: The End of Modernism - David Fixler
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Downtown Crossing - Eric Howeler
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Description
ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
In the old view of Boston, made in 1860, the streets seem to the etched deeply into a solid mass of buildings, much as letters might be chiseled into a block of granite by a stonecutter, or gullies might be carved into a bank of clay by a retreating flood. In the new view those street shape are much less crisply defined, but they do survive, whereas all the buildings have disappeared - with the sole exception of tiny Old South Meetinghouse, with a small s...
In the old view of Boston, made in 1860, the streets seem to the etched deeply into a solid mass of buildings, much as letters might be chiseled into a block of granite by a stonecutter, or gullies might be carved into a bank of clay by a retreating flood. In the new view those street shape are much less crisply defined, but they do survive, whereas all the buildings have disappeared - with the sole exception of tiny Old South Meetinghouse, with a small s...
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Location
Franklin St & Congress St
Boston, MA 02110
United States
Boston, MA 02110
United States
Nearby Items
| Tontine Crescent | 280 feet |  | ||
| John W McCormack Post Office and Courthouse | 365 feet | | ||
| Milk Street at Hawley Street | 409 feet | | ||
| Creature Pond | 532 feet | | ||
| Immanent Circumstance | 545 feet | | ||
| Quincy Market, Interior | 591 feet | | ||
| Angell Memorial | 606 feet | |
