Here are a few pictures of buildings and artifacts that caught my eye.
I’m still researching the name of this beautiful copper-clad (I think), building at the junction of Pleasant Street and River Street in Cambridge. It reminds me of the Flatiron Building in New York City.This firehouse is just a few blocks down on River Street in Cambridge.<br/Engine Company #6 was established in 1852 as Pioneer Engine Company #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 like this.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, is a historic building in Boston, Massachusetts, 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, also known as the Massachusetts Statehouse or the New State House, is the state capitol and seat of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Built 1795-1798. That is real gold foil on the dome, put on in 1997 at a cost of $300,000 (previously done in 1969 for $36,000). Currently another $20.3 million renovation project has just started this year.This is the tombstone of John Hancock in the Granary Burying Ground near the Boston Common. Hancock was the 1st and 3rd Governor of Massachusetts, in office May 1787 – October 1793.Central Station on the Red Line has beautiful benches, with colorful tiles.I took pictures of all the little tile inlays on the pillars across the tracks. I posted them all. 🤗..........Macy’s in downtown Boston.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 just a collage of modern glass and steel facades, caught in the zoom lens of my phone’s camera.
