<p>Harriswood Crescent is a historic series of rowhouses at 60-88 Harold Street in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of 15 units designed by J. Williams Beal and built in 1890. The Tudor Revival buildings are remarkably unaltered, and retain their park-like setting. They are -story structures, built out of stone, brick, and stucco with half-timbering. The layout is a modern echo of a style propounded by Charles Bulfinch, most visible in Boston&#39;s Tontine Crescent.</p><br>
<p>The crescent was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Harvard Avenue Fire Station is a historic former fire station on 16 Harvard Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. The station was designed in 1891 by Harrison H. Atwood, the Boston city architect who also designed the Congress Street Fire Station, It is a hip-roofed two story brick structure with Renaissance and Classical Revival elements. It was the second firehouse built on the site, and housed Engine #41 and Hook and Ladder #14.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Harvard Avenue Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Linden Street, Commonwealth Avenue, Harvard Avenue, and Park Vale Avenue in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Its spine is Harvard Avenue, a major north–south thoroughfare connecting Allston to points north , and south toward Brookline. The area underwent a population explosion in the early 20th century, and Harvard Avenue was developed roughly between 1905 and 1925 as a commercial and residential spine. Notable buildings in the district include the Allston Station building, designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, and the Harvard Avenue Fire Station.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The George W. Loomer House is a private residence located at 71 West Hancock Street in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This Richardsonian Romanesque structure was designed by architect Almon C. Varney in 1888 for George W. Loomer, a lumber dealer. The building originally had an insured value of $4,300, a sizeable sum in 1888. In 1891, retired steamboat captain Mulford T. Hunter purchased the house from Loomer, and also acquired what was then an empty lot next door. In 1893, he commissioned the construction of a house on the empty lot (now the Mulford T. Hunter House) and moved in the next year. He afterward rented out the Loomer house. The ownership of both the Hunter House and the Loomer House passed from Huner to his daughter, and then to his granddaughter Carolyn S. McGraw. In 1951, both houses were sold to Phila J. Draper and transformed into multi-unit apartment buildings.</p><br>
<p>As of 2009, the houses were owned by a man named Mr. Akbar. The units are mostly rented out to Wayne State University students and faculty. Apartment #3 at 71 W Hancock contains the casket window.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The exterior of this home features a two-story turret with a conical roof and an arched porch. The remainder of the house is constructed from masonry, much of it intricately laid. The porch supports an open balcony above, with a window overlooking the porch has an exaggerated rounded surround, and above that a gabled roof dormer. Belt courses beneath each line of the tower windows are constructed of stone, as are steps and the lintel above the central window in the first floor of the tower. Three windows are located on the basement, first, and second floor levels of the tower. Six small square windows are located on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the trim is all in golden oak. Much of the interior was removed upon conversion into apartments, but the main staircase remains intact.</p><br>
<p>The home is directly adjacent to the Mulford T. Hunter House; the two are the only remaining buildings from the 19th century in what was at the time one of Detroit&#39;s most fashionable areas.</p><br>
<p>The Stabrie Grocery is a building located at 501 North 13th Street in the NoDo area of Downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1882, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>When it originally opened in 1883, the building was near Omaha&#39;s notorious Burnt District. After originally serving as a grocery, the building later was home to saloons, a grocery wholesaler and the Central Mattress Company factory, which was there for more than 50 years. Today it is the Old Mattress Factory Bar and Grill.</p><br>
<p>The Mulford T. Hunter House is a private residence located at 77 West Hancock Street in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mulford Hunter was a captain of Great Lakes steamships, earning enough to become wealthy. In 1891, he purchased George W. Loomer House, and also acquired what was then an empty lot next door, where this house now stands. According to the May 27, 1894 edition of the Detroit Free Press, he commissioned the firm of Donaldson & Meier to design this house, and moved in that year. Hunter lived there with his daughter, his son-in-law and his grandchild, and afterward rented out the Loomer house. The ownership of both the Hunter House and the Loomer House passed from Hunter to his daughter, and then to his granddaughter Carolyn S. McGraw. In 1951, both houses were sold to Phila J. Draper and transformed into multi-unit apartment buildings. The owner in the 1990s was Edward Black.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This structure is a Queen Anne townhouse, one of the few remaining examples in the city of Detroit. The basement is built from large stones, elevating the red brick structure well off the ground. The porch features Ionic columns atop raised pedestals, and the front door has an elliptical fanlight framed by a Syrian arch.</p><br>
<p>The Margaret is a historic apartment building located in North Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1916, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Financed, built and owned by Omaha master builder Robert C. Strehlow, it was designed by F.A. Henninger. The Margaret was built at the same time as the Strehlow Terraces building called the Roland. The Margaret was built for Strehlows youngest child.</p><br>
<p>The Edward H. Haskell Home for Nurses, also known as the New England Baptist Hospital Training School For Nurses, is a historic academic complex in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Its original building, a 1-1/2 to -story brick-faced wood-frame building, was designed by Edward Sears Read in the Jacobethan style and built in 1922. This building originally housed a dormitory and classrooms. In 1931 a large wing gave the building an L shape, and another series of additions in 1940 gave the complex its present appearance, surrounding a courtyard atop Parker Hill. The complex was converted into an assisted-living facility in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Hayden Building is a historic building at 681-683 Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1875 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as well as designated a Boston Landmark in 1977 Designed to act as commercial retail space, this four story brownstone building shows little of the ornamentation generally associated with Henry Hobson Richardson. It is the last surviving commercial retail building designed by Richardson in Boston. The building is in Boston&#39;s Chinatown neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The five story Richardsonian Romanesque building was built on a very narrow lot. It is constructed of Longmeadow brownstone and is sparsely detailed with granite lintels and arches.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>This building was not recorded as a Henry Hobson Richardson building until work done by architectural and landscape historian Cynthia Zaitzevsky made note of it in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Previous summaries of Richardson&#39;s works relied on office books. This building was built by the Richardson family and was not charged an architectural or design fee. This building replaced a drugstore that exploded on this site in 1875.</p><br>
<p>All other commercial buildings designed by Richardson in Boston have been demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Historic Boston Incorporated acquired the building in 1995 and completed a total exterior restoration to repair fire damage. Work was done by the architectural firm Bruner/Cott and Preservation Carpentry students at the North Bennet Street School. Damaged structural stonework was replaced using latex molded cast stone replicas from other parts of the building. Brownstone lintels and columns were replaced where necessary.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, Boston architectural firm CUBE design + research was commissioned to complete a comprehensive restoration and conversion into multi-family housing.</p><br>
<p>The Home for Aged Couples is a group of three historic buildings at 409 and 419 Walnut Ave. and 2055 Columbus Avenue in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The building at 409 Walnut Avenue has been boarded up and is partially demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Classical Revival buildings were designed by John A. Fox and Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott and constructed between 1892 and 1927. Around the time of the construction of the Badger Building in 1927, brick connectors were constructed between all three buildings; these have since been demolished. The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Since 1999 Rogerson Communities (founded in 1860 as the Home for Aged Men) has taken the lead in fundraising to redevelop the property.</p><br>
<p>The House at 1 Bay Street is an historic house at 1 Bay Street in the Bay Village neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Dubbed the "tiniest house in Boston", it is a small 4-story brick structure, with a side gable roof and a brick foundation, occupying a lot of just 650 ft&sup2;. Its front facade is two bays  wide, with the entrance recessed under an arch in the left bay, and sash windows in the other bays. The house was built in 1830 by Benjamin Bosworth, and is a well-preserved example of Federal style.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The House at 17 Cranston Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is an architecturally eclectic and distinctive 12-sided structure, with an unusual combination of Italianate and Gothic features. It was built around 1874 by two Scottish immigrants, and is a distinctive landmark overlooking Hyde Square. It was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>17 Cranston Street stands on top of a low ridge southeast of the Hyde Square junction of Centre and Perkins Streets in Jamaica Plain. The main structure consists of three four-sided bays resembling truncated hexagons, which have been joined in a Y shape around a central hexagon. Windows consist of paired casements, each set at one of the angled corners with a triangular colored transom, giving the pair the appearance of a peaked transom. Each window pair is framed by shouldered Italianate moulding. The windows are arranged so there is only one pair per corner, either on the first or second floor. In two places on the ground floor there are doors placed at a corner, which fold as well as open. Each of these has been covered by a later added vestibule, whose exterior continues the main body styling but houses a more standard door. The exterior is finished in overlapping wooden panels that are in a hexagonal pattern. A six-sided cupola rises at the center of the roof, its exterior finished in multicolored slate. The interior decoration continues the hexagonal themes of the exterior.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the house stands was purchased by James and Archibald Scott from developer Timothy Bowe in 1871. The Scotts lost the property by foreclosure in 1874. The house was probably built by the Scotts: Archibald, a native of Nova Scotia, was a carpenter, specialized in the organ building trade, while Bowe was a mason, none of whose nearby houses come close to this one in architectural interest. According to a 1908 article on the house, the Scott brothers camped in a tent on the property while building the house.</p><br>
<p>After the Scotts lost the property, it went through a number of absentee owners. In the 20th century, the vestibules were added, and the house was sheathed in asphalt siding, which was placed over the hexagonal tiles. Subsequent owners have removed the siding, exposing the original, which was judged in 1987 to be in good condition.</p><br>
<p>The Omaha Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant is located at 1514-1524 Cuming Street in North Omaha, Nebraska. In its 16 years of operation, the plant employed 1,200 people and built approximately 450,000 cars and trucks. In the 1920s, it was Omaha&#39;s second-biggest shipper.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Ford plant</h3><br>
<p>The plant was designed by Albert Kahn as a Model T assembly plant, and built in 1916. Its design represents an important step in the development of Fords assembly process. Previously, each step in the assembly of an automobile had taken place in a different building, which entailed a cost in time and labor to move the product from one building to another. From 1903 to 1916, Kahn designed "all-under-one-roof" buildings for a variety of manufacturers. In such buildings, Fords usual practice was to begin assembly on the top floor and move downward until the product was finished at ground level. The Omaha plant was an exception to this: assembly began on the lowest floor and moved upward. It is speculated that the roof was used for storage of finished automobiles.</p><br>
<p>In 1917, Kahn designed the first single-floor assembly plant with a continuous moving assembly line at Ford&#39;s Rouge River plant. This design supplanted the older one; the Model A, which replaced the Model T, used a continuous line that could not be installed in the Omaha plant. Assembly ceased at the Omaha plant in 1932. Ford continued to use the building as a sales and service center until 1955.</p><br>
<h3>Post-Ford</h3><br>
<p>After Ford&#39;s departure, the building was used as a warehouse by the Western Electric Company from 1956 to 1959. It was then vacant until 1963, when it was occupied by Tip Top Products, an Omaha manufacturer of liquid solder, hair accessories, and other plastic goods founded by Carl W. Renstrom. Tip Top left the building in 1986, after which it was again vacant for several years. It served as a tire warehouse and retail outlet for some time, but then fell vacant again.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, the building was opened as TipTop Apartments, a mixed-use building with office space on the first floor and with 96 loft-style apartments on the upper levels; an adjoining building houses a banquet-and-conference center.</p><br>
<p>The Timothy Hoxie House is a historic house in Boston, Massachusetts. This two-story wood-frame house was built in 1854, and is a locally distinctive example of Italianate architecture. It is three bays wide, with each bay a distinct projection from the main block. The central bay is a projecting three-story tower with a hip roof whose cornice is studded with brackets. The right bay has a gable end projection that protrudes even forward of the tower, with a polygonal bay on the first floor and paired round-arch windows on the second. The left bay has a lesser projection, with a shed-roofed porch in front.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased for restoration in 1975 by brothers Ronald & Randall Finigan. Ronald Finigan and his family lived in the house until its sale in 2002. Finigan is credited for having restored the property and having the home listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The International Trust Company Building is an historic office building at 39-47 Milk Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The nine-story masonry-clad building was built in 1892–93 to a design by William Gibbons Preston, a prominent local architect. It is an early Boston example of the Beaux Arts style, and is structurally an early prototype of the use of skeleton framing. The building was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1978, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The International Trust Company Building stands in Boston&#39;s Financial District, facing Milk Street and flanked on its sides by Arch and Devonshire Streets. To its south is the Compton Building, to which it was at one time joined by internal connections. It is nine stories in height, with a frame of load-bearing concrete piers and floors supported by steel I-beams. Its exterior is finished in Indiana limestone and Quincy granite, and features a variety of elaborate details typical of the Beaux Arts style. Also featured on the exterior are statues designed by sculptor Max Bachman.</p><br>
<p>The International Trust Company was founded in 1879, and grew rapidly to become one of New Englands largest banks. Originally housed in a five-story building on this site, it hired Boston architect William Gibbons Preston to design a substantial enlargement. The resulting building was three bays wide, and faced Arch Street. Continued growth prompted to company to again hire Preston to enlarge it in 1906, resulting in the present appearance with the main facade facing Milk Street. The companys independent existence ended in the 1920s when it merged with the First National Bank of Boston.</p><br>
<p>It was connected by internal connections to the adjacent Compton Building in 1961, when the two buildings were under common ownership, and had been vacant since 1973 when it was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>John Eliot Square District is a historic district located in the northern Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is formed by the intersection of Dudley, Bartlett, Centre, Roxbury and Highland Streets. Named after local missionary to the Indians, John Eliot, the square was the site of the Roxbury town center after its founding in 1630. Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868, and John Eliot Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The square is the nucleus of Roxbury Heritage State Park, a history-themed heritage park.</p><br>
<h2>Major landmarks</h2><br>
<h3>First Church of Roxbury</h3><br>
<p>John Eliot Squares central landmark is the First Church of Roxbury, Bostons oldest surviving wooden meeting house from the Federal Period of American architecture.</p><br>
<h3>Dillaway-Thomas House</h3><br>
<p>Roxbury Heritage State Park is anchored by the Dillaway–Thomas House, a large colonial structure built in 1750 and thought to be Roxbury&#39;s oldest surviving house. The location includes an adjacent 1 acre landscaped park with views of the Boston skyline, and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.</p><br>
<p>The Georgian-style home was built as a parsonage for Rev. Oliver Peabody, pastor of the First Church of Roxbury in 1750. The house was later owned by Martha Dillaway and then John Thomas, an American commander in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. A marker commemorating the neighborhood as a stop on the Knox trail and signifying Thomas&#39; role in ending the Siege of Boston was placed at the park in 2009. The marker was the 57th placed to commemorate the Knox Expedition, and the first added since the string of monuments marking the trail was established in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The house was first restored in the 1930s by a preservationist who also introduced some inaccurate fixtures in an effort to embellish its history. After two fires in the 1970s, a state representative who was a former Roxbury resident successfully petitioned the legislature in 1984 for funding to restore the house and preserve it as a heritage park. The following restoration was done leaving some spots showing levels of all previous work done to the house left exposed, creating a physical timeline of the architectural history of the house. The completed house was opened to the public in 1992, and contains exhibits tracing periods of the history of Roxbury from the past to the present.</p><br>
<p>The Alvah Kittredge House is an historic house in the highlands of the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The -story Greek Revival mansion was built in 1836 for Alvah Kittredge, a leading real estate developer of the time. It was originally located at the site of the Roxbury Low Fort, a defensive earthworks of the American Revolutionary War, and was moved to its present site after 1896. It was the home of noted Boston architect Nathaniel J. Bradlee for 30 years.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Lawrence Model Lodging Houses are historic apartment houses located at 79, 89, 99 and 109 East Canton Street in the South End of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1874, these -story brick buildings were designed by Boston architects, Charles K. Kirby and William F. Goodwin. Three of the four have a traditional Second Empire mansard roof, while the fourth has a brick-faced attic level. They were built with funds from industrialist and financier Abbott Lawrence, who left a $50,000 bequest to provide housing for the poor.</p><br>
<p>On September 22, 1983, they were added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Liberty Tree District is a historic district encompassing a collection of six mid-scale commercial buildings between the Downtown Crossing area and the Theater District of Boston, Massachusetts. Located at and near the junction of Washington and Essex Streets, it is a well-preserved collection of mid-19th century commercial architecture, with a history as an important commercial part of Boston dating to the 18th century. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Liberty Tree District is a roughly L-shaped district, centered on the southeast corner of Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston. This corner was at the edge of the area known in the 20th century as Bostons Combat Zone, or adult entertainment district. In Bostons early colonial period, Washington Street was the only road off the Shawmut Peninsula, and this area was one that catered to travelers. In the 1760s it was the site of the Liberty Tree and the Liberty Tree Tavern, a focal point of colonial discontent against British rule. This significance is reflected in a carved relief on the Liberty Tree Block, the brick commercial block built in 1850 at the corner of Washington and Essex. The building was designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The oldest building in the district is the 1824 Lafayette Hotel, located next to the Liberty Tree Block on Washington Street. Its modest Federal-style facade is actually an early 20th-century alteration. Lining Essex Street east of the Liberty Tree Block are a collection of smaller late 19th-century commercial blocks, three of which have Gothic exteriors, and one has a rare surviving wooden facade from the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>The Harrison Loring House is a historic house at 789 East Broadway in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is a -story brick mansion, with a mansard roof in the Second Empire style. It has brownstone trim around the windows, a modillioned cornice, and a projecting center section with its entrance sheltered by a shallow portico. It was built in 1865 for Harrison Loring, owner of the City Point Iron Works, a major South Boston shipyard, at which steamships were built in the late 19th century. Loring lived in this house until 1894.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1984</p><br>
<p>The Lower Roxbury Historic District is a historic district encompassing an isolated pocket of 1890s mixed residential-commercial property in the lower Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Bounded by Tremont, Columbus, and Burke Streets and St. Cyprian&#39;s Place, the area contains a well-kept collection of architect designed buildings that survived late 20th-century urban redevelopment. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The district is bounded on the north by Columbus Avenue and on the south by Tremont Street, and is about 3 acre in size. Its western extent is the west side of St. Cyprian&#39;s Place (aka Walpole Street), and its eastern extent is roughly Burke Street. All of the buildings east of Coventry Street that were originally included in the district have since been demolished, and the entire block between Coventry and Burke has been redeveloped. Buildings fronting the east side of Coventry Street have also been demolished.</p><br>
<p>Boston&#39;s Roxbury neighborhood was originally a separate community, separated from Boston by the narrow Boston Neck. In the 19th century, a number of land reclamation projects widened the neck and filled in the Back Bay, creating new land for development. Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868. The Lower Roxbury area was located south of the Boston and Providence Railroad tracks, and had pockets of marshy land whose development was delayed into the late 19th century. This historic district was built up in one of these areas, between the railroad tracks and Tremont Street, one of the roads extended along the widened neck. By the 1890s, the area between Ruggles Street and Massachusetts Avenue was lined with predominantly wood frame structures and one factory. This area was on the fringes of the urban center, where fire codes required brick construction. When the area was redeveloped in the 1890s, a series of architect-designed buildings were constructed.</p><br>
<p>The oldest buildings in the district date to the 1850s, but most were built in the 1890s. One notable later building is St. Cyprian&#39;s Church (1915–38), which is the only religious building in the district, and its only Gothic Revival structure. Most buildings have Classical Revival inspiration in their detailing, are between three and four stories in height, and many have pressed metal cornices and metal trim detailing. The only entirely commercial building in the district at the time of its listing, 1065-69 Tremont Street, has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Mariner&#39;s House is a historic hotel at 11 North Square in Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1847 by the Boston Port Society and operated as a boarding house for sailors by the Boston Seamans Aid Society and the Port Societys chaplain, Father Taylor.</p><br>
<p>The building was described in the 1850s:</p><br>
<p>This is a noble edifice of 4 stories, erected by the Boston Port Society, and leased to the Seamans Aid Society: it contains 40 rooms over the basement story: the building is 40 feet square, with a wing extending 70 feet of three stories; in the basement is a storage room for seamens luggage, kitchen; laundry and bathing room: in the wing, is a spacious dining hall for seating an hundred persons: it has a chapel for morning and evening services arid where social, religious meetings are held every Wednesday evening under the care of Rev. E. T. Taylor: a reading and news room, with a good library to which accessions are daily making; and a store for the sale of sailors clothing: the building and land cost about $38,000, and it has been furnished at a cost of about $21,000, by the generous contributions of the Unitarian Churches of Boston and vicinity; a good supply of water is on the estate, and two force pumps supply each of the stories with hot or cold water, as required.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was built in the Greek Revival style and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. In that same year, the house was rededicated "to the service of seafarers" by the Boston Port and Seaman&#39;s Aid Society; the two organizations merged in 1867.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>Mariner&#39;s House now maintains the role of an inexpensive hotel for merchant mariners on active duty. It offers short-term accommodations (maximum stay 13 days) starting at $65 (as of 2024), including breakfast, to guests who can prove that they are actively working in the merchant marine.</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts School of Art is an historic academic building at 364 Brookline Avenue in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The four-story Gothic/Art Deco building was designed by the architectural firm of Henry & Richmond, and was built in 1929-30 for the Massachusetts College of Art. The school occupied the building until 1983, when it moved to its present campus on Huntington Avenue. The building is now part of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 and is currently under study for landmark status by the Boston Landmarks Commission.</p><br>
<p>The Donald McKay House is a privately owned historic house at 78–80 White Street in East Boston, Massachusetts. It was the residence of Donald McKay, a builder of clipper ships.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1844 in the Greek Revival architectural style, which is distinguished by its pitched roof and front-facing gable resembling a Greek pediment. Donald McKay (1810 – 1880) moved into the house in 1845, and during his residence there he designed and built some of the most successful clippers in history. These ships include the Flying Cloud (1851), which made two 89-day passages from New York to San Francisco; the Sovereign of the Seas (1852), which posted the fastest speed ever by a sailing ship (22 knots) in 1854; the Lightning (1854), which set multiple records, including sailing 436 miles in a 24-hour period and sailing from Melbourne, Australia, to Liverpool, England, in 64 days; and the James Baines (1854), which logged a speed of 21 knots on June 18, 1856.</p><br>
<p>While living in East Boston, McKay also built five large packet ships for Enoch Train&#39;s White Diamond Line, which specialized in the Atlantic emigrant route from Europe to North America, between 1845 and 1850. These ships were the Washington Irving, the Anglo Saxon, the Anglo American, the Daniel Webster, and the Ocean Monarch. The Ocean Monarch was lost to fire on August 28, 1848, soon after leaving Liverpool and within sight of Wales; over 170 of the passengers and crew perished. During the American Civil War, the USA Navy contracted McKay to build the USS Nausett, one of the few Casco-class monitors to be commissioned.</p><br>
<p>On January 25, 1977, a public hearing was held at Boston City Hall to consider designation. The house was designated as a Boston Landmark on May 10, 1977, it was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Monument Square Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of Monument Square in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The 43 acre district is bounded on the northwest by Pond Street, the northeast by Myrtle and Pond Streets, the southeast by Centre Street , and Holbrook and Eliot Streets to the west. This area, originally developed as country estates, was developed as a residential area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its architecture reflecting a diversity of styles. Prominent non-residential buildings including the First Church of Jamaica Plain, Eliot Hall, and the Eliot School. Also included in the district is Jamaica Plains Gothic Soldiers Monument, at the junction of South and Centre Streets.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 11, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Moreland Street Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Kearsarge, Blue Hill Avenues, and Warren, Waverly, and Winthrop Streets in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It encompasses 63 acre of predominantly residential urban streetscape, which was developed between about 1840 and 1920. Housing types represent a cross-section of architectural styles from the period, including Second Empire, Italianate, and Queen Anne style. It is a fairly well-preserved grouping in an area where many sections have been negatively affected by urban blight and redevelopment. One notable house is at 130 Warren Street: it is the only house in the district built out of Roxbury puddingstone. That building is currently under study as a pending landmark for the Boston Landmarks Commission.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Old Post Office, also known as USA Post Office, is a historic post office building located at 121 Ellicott Street in Buffalo in Erie County, New York within the Joseph Ellicott Historic District. It is currently home to the City Campus of SUNY Erie.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the old USA Post Office Department during the tenure of Jeremiah ORourke when construction started in 1897. The $1.5 million building opened in 1901 during the tenure of James Knox Taylor and operated as Buffalos central post office until 1963.</p><br>
<p>The highly ornamented Gothic Revival style four-story building features a 244-foot tower over the central entrance. This tower is 244 ft tall. The main feature of the interior is a roofed courtyard. It was subsequently occupied by various federal offices.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places maintained by the National Park Service of the USA Department of the Interior in 1972 as "USA Post Office".</p><br>
<p>Since 1981, it has been home to the City Campus of SUNY Erie. Burt Flickinger Center is across the street and provides athletic facilities for the college.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pleasant Historic District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of well-preserved 19th-century residential buildings on Forest Street and Mount Pleasant Avenue in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. First developed in 1833, it was one Roxbury&#39;s first speculative residential subdivision developments. The district features Greek Revival, Italianate, and Romanesque architecture, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mount Pleasant Historic District covers about 170 acre in central Roxbury, and includes all of the properties on Mount Pleasant Avenue and Forest Street south of Dudley Street, as well as the properties on Vine Street between the two. The area is entirely residential, including a diversity of housing types and styles. It has structures containing one, two, and three units, as well as larger apartment houses and rowhouses. The only institutional building in the district, the Mount Carmel Convent, is also residential. Most of the smaller buildings are wood-frame structures, while the larger buildings are generally built out of brick. Stylistically, the oldest buildings are Greek Revival in character, with styles extending the full gamut of popular styles of the second half of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Roxbury was founded as a separate town in 1630, and was annexed to Boston in 1868. Until the 19th century, it was a predominantly agricultural area. In 1833, Caleb Parker, Jr. purchased the farm of Moses White, and laid out the streets of the district and the surrounding area. Land that he sold to builders came with deed restrictions limiting it to residential construction. Public transit from the area to Boston was at first limited to horse-drawn omnibuses, but the train was built through Roxbury in 1835, reducing commute times. Prior to the American Civil War, most of the construction in the district was wood-frame, albeit with increasing density. Construction after the war was mainly in brick, and at even higher densities, although a few triple deckers were built around the turn of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Nazing Court Apartments are an historic site at 224-236 Seaver Street and 1-8 Nazing Court in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of two large Colonial Revival apartment blocks designed by Boston architect Sumner Schein and built in 1929. One houses 53 units, the other 98; they stand on a parcel overlooking Franklin Park. They were built to provide housing for Roxbury&#39;s burgeoning working-class Jewish community, and are a rare residential work of Schein, who did mostly commercial work.</p><br>
<p>The apartments were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Neponset Valley Parkway is a historic parkway in southern Boston and Milton, Massachusetts, United States. It is a connecting parkway in the Greater Boston area&#39;s network, providing a connection between the Blue Hills Reservation, Neponset River Reservation, and the Stony Brook Reservation. The parkway was constructed between 1898 and 1929 with design assistance from Charles Eliot and the Olmsted Brothers. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The northern terminus of the parkway is at a junction with River Street, north of the Readville neighborhood of Boston and just south of the Mill Pond Reservation, a city park. On the far side of the Mill Pond Reservation is the southern end of Turtle Pond Parkway, one of the Stony Brook Reservation Parkways. It runs roughly east, as a two-lane road, until it meets a major railroad right-of-way, at which point it turns south. It makes a left turn to cross the railroad with Milton Street on the John Hart Bridge (a 1930s WPA construction), just north of the Readville MBTA station. It turns south, passing the station and then curves east again, crossing another branch of the railroad to enter Wolcott Square, a commercial area of Readville. From Wolcott Square it proceeds roughly southeast in a straight line, through a residential area, and widens to four lanes shortly before reaching the edge of the Neponset River Reservation and a junction with the southern terminus of the Truman Parkway. It then crosses the Neponset River into Milton on Paul&#39;s Bridge, an 1849 stone arch bridge which was rebuilt to widen it as part of the parkway construction. On the east side of the river it meets Milton Street and Brush Hill Road, briefly turning southwest before resuming its southeasterly course to its southern terminus at Blue Hill Avenue (Massachusetts Route 138).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parkway was built in three stages, and was one of the Metropolitan District Commissions (MDC) early connecting parkways. The segment between Wolcott Square and Brush Hill Road was acquired first, as an existing municipal street formerly called Neponset Street. This section was acquired by the MDCs predecessor in 1898 and upgraded to its parkway standards; Paul&#39;s Bridge was rebuilt in 1932–33. The section north of this was originally planned to be a new roadway (and land was even acquired in 1901), but the MDC decided in 1924 to instead acquire the present alignment, which was then called Regent Street. The John Hart Bridge was acquired by the MDC in 1956, replacing an earlier grade crossing. The southern segment of the parkway was built as a new roadway in 1904.</p><br>
<p>The New Riding Club is an historic building at 52 Hemenway Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1891 and designed by Willard T. Sears, The Riding Club is an example of Tudor Revival architecture. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It is the only building remaining of three such facilities built in the neighborhood near the end of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The club was formed by prominent Bostonians whose Back Bay neighborhood largely restricted the stabling of horses and their buildings location was chosen to allow riders to use the nearby bridle paths of Frederick Law Olmsteds Back Bay Fens. It contained a riding ring, changing rooms and lounges, and spaces dedicated to stabling, grooming, shoeing, and exercising horses. The former French cavalry officer Henry Lucien de Bussigny, the author of several works on horsemanship, was the riding instructor.</p><br>
<p>The building was acquired by the Badminton and Tennis Club in 1934, and the interior riding ring was converted to tennis courts. In 1985 the remaining stables were converted to residential apartments.</p><br>
<p>The North Terminal Garage is a historic parking garage on 600 Commercial Street in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. The three-story concrete garage was built in 1925 to a design by Little & Russell. It is a rare surviving parking facility from such an early date, and is further notable as the site of the Great Brink&#39;s Robbery on January 17, 1950. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>A plaque on the front of the building identifies it as the site on which "illuminating gas was first commercially manufactured in New England in 1828."</p><br>
<p>Oak Square School is a historic school building at 35 Nonantum Street in Brighton, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The school was designed by Edmund March Wheelwright, who designed a wide variety of Boston landmark buildings. It was built in 1894 on the site of Breck Gardens and had a major addition in 1923. When it closed in 1981, it was the last wood schoolhouse in Boston. It was converted to housing in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1979 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Paine Furniture Building is an historic commercial building at 75-81 Arlington Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It occupies the entire block between St. James and Stuart Streets, and has a prominent position on Park Square.</p><br>
<p>The ten-story building was constructed in 1914 in a Classical Revival style, to a design by Densmore and LeClear. It was designed to house the showrooms, offices, and manufacturing facilities of the Paine Furniture Company, at one time the largest furniture company in New England. The company sold the building in 1989. It has steel frame construction, and is faced in limestone.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It is currently a pending Boston Landmark. Suffolk University&#39;s New England School of Art and Design currently occupies part of the building.</p><br>
<p>Pauls Bridge is a stone bridge carrying the Neponset Valley Parkway over the Neponset River between Milton and southern Boston, Massachusetts. It was built in 1849 by Thomas Hollis, Jr., of Milton, but was later reconstructed using the original materials. It replaced the earlier Hubbards Bridge , and a subsequent Pauls Bridge . Its current span is approximately 88 ft. The name "Paul" can be attributed to Samuel Paul, the owner of the adjacent land on the Readville  side, which was part of Dedham at the time of the bridges construction.</p><br>
<p>The 1849 bridge was 81 ft long and 22 ft wide, and was constructed of unmortared Quincy granite.</p><br>
<p>Paul&#39;s Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and contributes to a historic district encompassing the Neponset River Parkway. It is located within the Neponset River Reservation, and is maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.</p><br>
<p>The Peabody is a historic apartment building at 195-197 Ashmont Street in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The -story Tudor Revival brick building was designed by Edwin J. Lewis Jr., a local architect, and built in 1896–97. It is named for its original owners Oliver and Mary Lothrop Peabody, who were , significant proponents of the development of the area. It was built as a complement to the nearby All Saints&#39; Church, which also stands facing Peabody Square, and was financially supported by the Olivers.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Richardson Block is a historic block of commercial buildings at 113-151 Pearl and 109-119 High Streets in Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of a series of buildings constructed in the aftermath of the Great Boston Fire of 1872. The first of these buildings, at the corner of Pearl and High Streets, was designed by William Preston and built in 1873 for Jeffrey Richardson, using granite and brick salvaged from buildings that had previously stood on the site. The area was an important locus of the leather goods business both before and after the fire, and the buildings constructed after the fire are among the only neo-Greek commercial structures standing in Boston&#39;s Financial District.</p><br>
<p>The properties were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. They are currently under consideration for Boston Landmark status by the Boston Landmarks Commission.</p><br>
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<p>The Riviera is an historic apartment building at 270 Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1923, it is a seven-story brick and concrete structure developed by Coleman & Gilbert and designed by Fred A. Norcross. Norcross was a prolific builder of apartment and tenement blocks for the city&#39;s burgeoning immigrant population. The building has an asymmetrical facade, divided into four similarly styled sections, each of which has a band of three sash windows on the left and a projecting polygonal bay on the right. A few of the three-window groups have shallow balconies with low balustrades in front of them.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Roughan Hall is a historic commercial building at 10 City Square, the historic central square of the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1892 and enlarged in 1896, it is the square&#39;s only surviving 19th-century commercial building, and a distinctive example of Romanesque and Renaissance Revival architecture. Its upper levels now serve as the headquarters of the Appalachian Mountain Club. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>City Square is a public park at the southern end of the Charlestown peninsula, lined on the southwest and southeast by major traffic arteries. Roughan Hall is located on the park&#39;s northeast side, between Main and Park Streets. It is a four-story yellow brick building, with cast-iron storefronts on the ground level, and a limestone-framed entry to the upper floors, which historically housed offices and a large auditorium. The main facade is four bays wide, with the leftmost bay set at a slight angle, owing in part to an odd lot shape. The second and third floor windows of three of the bays are surrounded by decorative brickwork, and the fourth-floor windows are tall rounded arches with terra cotta surrounds. The building cornice includes a series of blind arches surmounted by brick corbelling.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Arthur H. Vinal and built in 1892 for Michael Roughan, a prominent local businessman and philanthropist. At the time, the square was completely encircled by commercial and civic buildings. The building housed Roughans liquor store on the ground floor, and the top-floor hall was used primarily by social and fraternal organizations. In 1989, the ground floor space was converted for use as a restaurant and housed Todd Englishs Olives from 1989 to 2013, which was replaced by Legal Oysteria in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The building was purchased by the Appalachian Mountain Club in 2016, which occupies its upper floors.</p><br>
<p>Roxbury High Fort is a historic fort site on Beech Glen Street at Fort Avenue in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The site now contains a small park and the Cochituate Standpipe, also known as Fort Hill Tower, built in 1869. The fort site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The site inspired the name of the Fort Hill neighborhood, which surrounds the area of the High Fort.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Roxbury High Fort site once contained earthwork fortifications of the Continental Army during the Siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary War. At that time Roxbury was an independent town connected to Boston by a narrow neck of land. The hill offered a great vantage of the entire area.</p><br>
<p>In 1868 Roxbury was annexed to Boston. In 1869, the 70 ft Cochituate Standpipe was built atop Fort Hill by the Cochichuate Water Company.</p><br>
<p>Eventually the water tower was abandoned with other expansions to the Boston water system. By the 1960s, the tower fell into disrepair. The original cast iron balcony was removed. In the early 1980s the City of Boston restored the tower. The area is also today known as Highland Park.</p><br>
<p>The Russia Wharf Buildings are a cluster of three stylistically similar commercial buildings at 518–540 Atlantic Avenue, 270 Congress Street and 276–290 Congress Street in Boston, Massachusetts. They are built on the original site of Russia Wharf, near where the Boston Tea Party took place in 1773. The wharf was the center of Bostons trade with Russia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The wharfs buildings were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872, and the land area was extended by building over the wharf and filling the spaces surrounding it. The three Renaissance Revival buildings were designed by Peabody and Stearns and was built in 1897.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Sears Crescent and Sears Block are a pair of adjacent historic buildings located along Cornhill in Boston, Massachusetts. It is adjacent to City Hall and City Hall Plaza, Government Center, Boston.</p><br>
<p>Sears Crescent was constructed in 1816 as a series of Federal period commercial rowhouses. Around 1860 these were given a unified curving facade with Italianate styling. The Sears Block, built in 1848, is a rare surviving instance of granite post-and-lintel construction. Both buildings were developed by David Sears, a leading mid-19th-century developer of Boston who was responsible for the filling of Back Bay. They are the only buildings that remain on the original route of Cornhill, one of Boston&#39;s oldest streets, most of whose route has been lost or obscured by urban renewal.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Sears&#39; Block is now the location of the "Steaming Tea Kettle", an 1873 trade sign commissioned by the Oriental Tea Company that was located on a Court Street building demolished in 1967 during the construction of Government Center. The kettle was refurbished and reinstalled in 2016 after being damaged, apparently by a truck.</p><br>
<p>Sears&#39; Crescent was acquired in 2016 by Chevron Partners.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>BrattleSt Cornhill ca1905 Boston BPL 08 02 001023.jpgOverview of Cornhill and Brattle Streets, ca.1905</p><br>
<p>Cornhill ca1905 Boston BPL 08 02 001023.pngOverview of Cornhill, ca.1905</p><br>
<p>1962 Cornhill4 Boston byCervinRobinson HABS MA787.jpgSears&#39; Crescent, Cornhill, Boston, 1962</p><br>
<p>1962 Cornhill2 Boston byCervinRobinson HABS MA786.jpgCorner of Cornhill and Court Street, Boston, 1962</p><br>
<p>1967 Cornhill Boston byGCushing HABS MA786.jpgCornhill, Boston, 1967</p><br>
<p>1967 Cornhill2 Boston byGCushing HABS MA786.jpgSears&#39; Block, 1967</p><br>
<p>2007 Government Center Boston 815891393.jpgSears&#39; Crescent (at left), looking toward Tremont and Cambridge St., 2007</p><br>
<p>2010 Government Center Boston 3.jpgView of Sears&#39; Crescent in distance, looking across City Hall Plaza, 2010</p><br>
<p>Steaming Tea Kettle, Court Street (8610212800).jpgSteaming Tea Kettle on the Sears&#39; Block in 1971</p><br>
<p>The Steaming Kettle and Boston City Hall.jpgThe Steaming Tea Kettle in 2016, with Boston City Hall in the background</p><br>
<p>The South Boston Boat Clubs Historic District is a historic district consisting of clubhouse buildings at 1793–1849 William J. Day Boulevard in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The district includes four late-Victorian era clubhouses, which were built on "made land" created by filling in mudflats from nearby construction projects. The oldest of the buildings, that of the Boston Harbor Yacht Club, was built in 1898, but may contain elements as old as 1870, when the Boston Yacht Club was founded.</p><br>
<p>The district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The South End District is a historic district encompassing a portion of the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is bounded roughly by the Southwest Corridor Park on the northwest, the Massachusetts Turnpike to the north, Herald Street to the east, AlbanyStreet to the south east, and Massachusetts Avenue to the southwest. The area&#39;s principal development took place 1850–73, and resulted in a neighborhood of what were originally single-family brick or brownstone rowhouses, interspersed with retail and civic buildings, as well as six small parks. After the Panic of 1873 these properties were for the most part converted to multi-unit housing.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In 2014 it was expanded to include additional properties on the 200 block of Harrison Street.</p><br>
<p>The R. H. Stearns Building is an 11-story residence building  at 140 Tremont Street in Boston. It was built in 1909 for the businessman R. H. Stearns and his company and was the home of the R. H. Stearns and Company department store until the company&#39;s demise in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Stearns store had been in many locations in Boston before finally settling in its new building and headquarters at 140 Tremont Street.</p><br>
<p>Since 1886 Stearns & Co. occupied and leased a re-modeled building on the site of the old Boston Masonic Temple, until it was completely torn down and the new R. H. Stearns building put up in 1908.</p><br>
<p>R. H. Stearns & Company ceased operations in 1978, and the building was converted to 140 studio and one-bedroom apartments for older adults and people with disabilities. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as R. H. Stearns House in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Stony Brook Reservation Parkways are a group of historic parkways in Boston and Dedham, Massachusetts. They provide access to and within the Stony Brook Reservation, a Massachusetts state park. The roadways and the park are administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, a successor to the Metropolitan District Commission, which oversaw their construction. The roads consist of the Dedham, Enneking, and Turtle Pond Parkways and West Boundary Road. Two roads within the park, Smithfield Road and Reservation Road, are listed as non-contributing properties. The park roads were built between 1894 and 1956, and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>West Boundary Road</h2><br>
<p>When it was built in 1928, West Boundary Road skirted the western boundary of the reservation, running from Washington Street in the north to Turtle Pond Parkway in the south. This route is now interrupted by a housing development, and the southern end of the roadway ends after 0.8 mi at Georgetowne Drive. Most of the rest of its former alignment has been converted to a wide hiking path.</p><br>
<h2>Dedham Parkway</h2><br>
<p>The reservation&#39;s three main parkways meet at a junction within the park known as the Robert Bleakie Intersection, located in the southern part of the park. The Dedham Parkway, a two-lane road, extends southwest from this junction, exiting the park soon afterward. It passes a junction with Georgetowne Drive, and then with Alwin Street, before crossing into Dedham and reaching its southern terminus, a junction with Harding Terrace (the cross street), and Dedham Boulevard (its southerly continuation). The parkway was built in stages, in 1900 and 1912.</p><br>
<h2>Turtle Pond Parkway</h2><br>
<p>Turtle Pond Parkway was built in 1897, and extends southeast from the Bleakie Intersection. It is, like the Dedham Parkway, a two-lane road. It eventually skirts the southwestern edge of the reservation, passing through an intersection with Smithfield Road and Alwin Street. It continues roughly southward, passing the southern tip of the reservation before reaching Boston&#39;s Mill Pond Reservation, and its own terminus at a junction with River Street. River Street provides a connection (on the far side of Mill Pond Reservation) to the Neponset Valley Parkway.</p><br>
<h2>Enneking Parkway</h2><br>
<p>The Enneking Parkway, built in 1897, extends north and east from the Bleakie Intersection. The northern leg extends through much of the reservation, eventually reaching its northern terminus with Washington Street and the West Roxbury Parkway, which continues northward. The eastern leg reaches a junction with West Smithfield Road, before turning into East Boundary Road near the Smith Pond Playground.</p><br>
<p>The Students House is a historic dormitory on 96 Fenway in Boston, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1913 which was designed by the Boston firm of Kilham and Hopkins. It was built by an organization of local well-to-do Back Bay residents to provide affordable housing to female students attending area schools. Most of the students housed in its early years attended the New England Conservatory of Music, with its population dominated by other schools after the conservatory opened its own dormitory. It was sold in 1972 to Northeastern University, which uses it to house freshman students, and is referred to as Kerr Hall.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Sumner Hill Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area of high-quality late 19th-century residences in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is roughly bounded by Seaverns Avenue, Everett Street, Carolina Avenue, and Newbern Street just east of the neighborhoods commercial Centre Street area. The district features Second Empire, Italianate, and Queen Anne style architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>During the 17th and 18th-century colonial period, the Jamaica Plain area was a predominantly rural agricultural part of Roxbury (then not part of Boston), providing food for Boston. Portions were developed in the latter half of the 18th century as large country summer estates for wealthy Bostonians, including John Hancock, Francis Bernard, and Joshua Loring. The c. 1760 summer of house of Loring, now known as the Loring-Greenough House and located just outside the historic district, is one of the only houses in Jamaica Plain to survive from this period, and its estate grounds included the Sumner Hill area. In the second half of the 19th century, the advent of fast rail-based transportation into Boston led to the area&#39;s development as a streetcar suburb, and the estates were subdivided for development. Development of the Sumner Hill area was begun in the 1850s by the heirs of David Greenough, and went through a second major phase in the late 19th century. The first phase of development was characterized by the construction of large houses on handsome landscaped lots for the upper class, while the later development consisted of more densely built but still high quality housing for a more middle-class clientele.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is about 365 acre in size, and is roughly bounded by Centre Street, Seavern Avenue, Everett Street, and Carolina Street, although its actual boundaries exclude most of the buildings on these surrounding streets. The districts roadways are laid out to accommodate the areas hilly topography, winding around and along its features. Most of the buildings in the district are single-family residences of wood-frame construction, two to three stories in height. There are brick rowhouses along some of the outer roadways. The only non-residential buildings are three churches, which are clustered near the junctions of Elm Street with Revere Street and Seaverns Avenue in the northeastern part of the district, and the former Jamaica Plain High School just to their south on Elm Street. The latter building has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>Symphony and Horticultural Halls are historic buildings at the corner of Massachusetts and Huntington Avenues in the Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The halls were listed as a pair on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Symphony Hall was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Symphony Hall</h2><br>
<p>Symphony Hall is a large, rectangular performance space designed by McKim, Mead and White, and built in 1900 by the Norcross Brothers for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Italian Renaissance Revival building rests on thousands of wooden pilings embedded in filled land, and is one of the city&#39;s first steel-framed buildings. It is clad in brick, with limestone trim. Its main entrance, now on Massachusetts Avenue, was originally intended for arrivals by carriage, while the original main entrance was through the columned portico on Huntington Avenue.</p><br>
<h2>Horticultural Hall</h2><br>
<p>Horticultural Hall was designed by Wheelwright and Haven and completed in 1901. It is a two-story Beaux Arts brick and stone structure, extending along Massachusetts Avenue opposite the current main entrance to Symphony Hall. It was built by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, founded in 1832, and originally housed its offices, as well as a lecture hall and exhibition spaces. It now houses the offices of Boston magazine and the Handel and Haydn Society, among others.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance of the pair</h2><br>
<p>These two buildings are primary examples of a shift in the late 19th and early 20th centuries of Bostons cultural institutions toward spacious Back Bay locations. At the time of their respective constructions, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were both major civic cultural organizations. The area in which they were built was until the 1880s part of Bostons Back Bay. This area, once tidally covered mud flats, had become a fetid cesspool by the 1850s, and was filled in to create new land for development over a three decade period. The orchestra and society were preceded by other major institutions, including the First Church of Christ, Scientist and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, both of which built new facilities along Huntington Avenue, and were followed by New England Conservatory, the Boston Opera House, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Both the opera house and Mechanics Hall were demolished in the 1950s. These buildings are the most distinctive pair left from this period of development.</p><br>
<p>The Textile District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of commercial buildings in the central business district of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of properties roughly on Essex Street from Phillips Square to Columbia Street and Chauncy Street from Phillips Square to Rowe Place. This area was the center of Bostons dry goods commercial business, and was developed between 1888 and 1922. Most of the buildings are between five and eight stories, and were architect-designed to serve mercantile interests. The districts oldest building is the 1889 Romanesque Revival Auchmuty Building at 104-122 Kingston Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Almost all textile stores and factories have now closed—most were family-run businesses without heirs, and some closed due to competition from large superstores such as JoAnn Fabrics. Winmill Fabrics on Chauncy Street is one of the few stores still remaining.</p><br>
