Here are a few pictures of buildings and artifacts that caught my eye.
Here is a beautiful flatiron building at the junction of Pleasant Street and River Street in Cambridge with lots of copper on the outside (the green). It was built in 1899, and its most recent renovation was done in 2020 with the repair and replacement of some of the doors and windows, and updates to the wiring and plumbing inside.This firehouse is just a few blocks down on River Street in Cambridge. Engine Company No. 6 was established in 1852 as Pioneer Engine Company No. 6 and was located in a building on Pioneer Street in Ward 2, Kendall Square. They moved into this building at 176 River Street in 1891 and has been there ever since.I love old-fashioned hardware such as this walk signal push-button.The First Baptist Church on River Street is undergoing a few renovations. The church is a tall single-story brick structure, with sandstone trim and decorative detailing in terra cotta, and has Gothic Revival styling. It was constructed in 1881.The Old State House, also known as the Old Provincial State House, was built in 1713. It was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798. It is the oldest surviving public building in the city.The Park Street Congregational Church is on the corner of the Boston Common. The Boston Common is the oldest public park in the US.The Massachusetts State House (built 1795-1798), also known as the New State House (to distinguish it from the Old Statehouse), as seen from the Boston Common. The building is the state capitol and seat of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That is gold foil on the dome, put on in 1997 at a cost of $300,000 (and previously done in 1969 for $36,000). Another $20.3 million renovation project has gotten underway just this year.This is the tombstone of John Hancock in the Granary Burying Ground near the Boston Common. Hancock was the first and third Governor of Massachusetts; in office between May 1787 and October 1793.Central Station on the Red Line has benches decorated with colorful tiles.I took pictures of all the little decorative tile inlays on the pillars across the tracks. I posted them all. 🤗..........Macy’s department store in downtown Boston takes up the entire city block, the same way as the one in New York City does.Unable to pay its bills after decades at the heart of Boston’s cultural life, the Boston Opera House closed its doors in 1991 and began physically deteriorating at an alarming rate. Now, however, after a lavish restoration in the early 2000s, the Opera House has a new vitality. The Boston Opera House was completed in 1928 as a tribute to Benjamin Franklin Keith, a leading figure in vaudeville, so popular in the United States in the years before.And here we are today— a collage of modern glass and steel facades, caught in the zoom lens of my phone’s camera.
