ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
This is another of those pairs of views that make you wish that change brought improvement more often than it does. Few would regard the new Back Bay Hilton as an improvement over the old Mechanic Arts High School. We're looking up Belvidere Street (left) toward Massachusetts Avenue and up Dalton Street (right) toward Boylston Street. 'The Hilton is little more than a tall stack of bedrooms cased in concrete. Its windows, as anonymous as punchcard holes,...