BOSTON: The fascinating building of THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH (USA) ⛪
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The First Church of Christ, Scientist, is located in the 14.5-acre Christian Science Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The center is owned by the church and contains the Original Mother Church (1894) and the Mother Church Extension (1906), which is the subject of this video.
Boston is Massachusetts’ capital and largest city. Founded in 1630, it’s one of the oldest cities in the U.S. The key role it played in the American Revolution is highlighted on the Freedom Trail, a 2.5-mile walking route of historic sites that tells the story of the nation’s founding. One stop, former meeting house Faneuil Hall, is a popular marketplace.
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.
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The First Church of Christ Scientist at night , Boston, USA - Time Lapse
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States is the Mother Church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science Church, and is located in the Christian Science Plaza in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston. Surrounding a plaza and built over many years beginning in 1894, it consists of seven structures: the Original Mother Church, Mother Church Extension, Christian Science Publishing House, Mary Baker Eddy Library, 177 Huntington Avenue (former Administration Building), 101 Belvidere (former Church Colonnade Building), and Reflection Hall, formerly the Sunday School Building.
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Evening to Night at The First Church of Christ in Boston, USA- Time Lapse
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States is the Mother Church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science Church, and is located in the Christian Science Plaza in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston. Surrounding a plaza and built over many years beginning in 1894, it consists of seven structures: the Original Mother Church, Mother Church Extension, Christian Science Publishing House, Mary Baker Eddy Library, 177 Huntington Avenue (former Administration Building), 101 Belvidere (former Church Colonnade Building), and Reflection Hall, formerly the Sunday School Building.
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Christian Science Thanksgiving Service
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OGDEN – The First Church of Christ, Scientist of Ogden, a local branch of the Christian Science Church, is hosting its annual Thanksgiving Day Service on Thanksgiving Day this year. Church members believe in celebrating with all faiths in thanksgiving for the sacrifices made by pilgrims and the Founding Fathers to create the United States of America. “In the Bible, when Samuel is mourning the Israelites wanting a king instead of a prophet, there’s scriptures that talk about how God said, ’Quit your moping about. We’re going to give them a king,’ ” said Janene Beal, chairman of the board of directors of the First Church of Christ, Christian Scientist of Ogden. “And then it talks about how, when they reject the king, then they’ll be able to be governed by God again, rather than through a personality,” she said. “And in my heart, our nation was based on rejecting the king. Because we did offer President Washington the kingship, and he rejected it. And so, for me, this Thanksgiving service, I have a rejoicing in my heart because of our past selection.” Beal said she believes when Americans turn to their government to provide for them, they are really wanting the king back spiritually, mentally and physically. “We are choosing to be governed by God and have our individual rights to exercise our free conscience and right to religious freedom,” she said. The service will include hymns and readings by members of the congregation. “The first and second reader will perform the service,” Beal said. “We don’t really have a minister, so our pastor is the Bible and our Christian Science Textbook (by Mary Baker Eddy). We also include the proclamation from the president of the Untied States where it’s requesting us all to get together as countrymen, as citizens to partake of our Thanksgiving.” Beal explained the Christian Science religion’s beliefs. “Christian Science was the discovery of the laws behind Christianity,” she said. “And when you’re obedient to the laws of Christ or Christianity, there’s a law of healing behind it, of harmonizing, a blessing.” Shelley Stevens, superintendent for the Sunday School at the church, said the Thanksgiving service is celebrated worldwide in the Christian Science faith. “Everyone from the community is invited,” Stevens said. “Many members at that time appreciate what they have received this year, in recent times, and they give a testimony explaining how studying the Bible and Science and Health has helped them to realize what to be thankful for.” Beal said the service offers a way for people to worship on Thanksgiving, instead of just eating a traditional meal with family. “Because we hold it right on Thanksgiving, I do feel we provide a way for people to actually come and honor God, and give thanks and participate in our service,” she said. The First Church of Christ, Christian Science of Ogden, located at 780 24th Street, is holding its Thanksgiving service at 11 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27. For more information, visit christianscienceogden.org.
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The former First Church of Christ, Scientist located at 205 Albion Avenue (between Tilden and Forest streets), is an historic Christian Science church building in Fairmont, Minnesota, which was designed in the Colonial Revival style by noted Chicago architect, Charles Draper Faulkner,who was renowned for the churches and other buildings that he designed in the United States and Japan. He designed over 33 Christian Science church buildings and wrote a book called Christian Science Church Edifices which features this church as well as many others. . Built in 1937 to replace the church's previous building at 222 East Blue Earth Avenue, its steepled redbrick front elevation looks west to Wards Park and beyond that to Sisseton Lake. The church is no longer in existence and the building is now the Lakeview Funeral Home.
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Boston is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Boston also serves as county seat of the state's Suffolk County. The largest city in New England, the city proper, covering 48 square miles (125 square km), had an estimated population of 626,000 in 2011, making it the 21st largest city in the United States. The city is the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 7.6 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States. One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan colonists from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston. Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. After the coming of American independence the city became an important port and manufacturing center, and a center of education and culture as well. Its rich history helps attract many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone attracting over 20 million visitors. Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public school (1635), and first subway system (1897). The area's many colleges and universities make Boston an international center of higher education and medicine, and the city is considered highly innovative for a variety of reasons. Boston's economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, and government activities. The city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Boston has an area of 89.6 square miles (232.1 km2) 48.4 square miles (125.4 km2) (54.0%) of land and 41.2 square miles (106.7 km2) (46.0%) of water and is the country's third most densely populated city that is not a part of a larger city's metropolitan area. This is largely attributable to the rarity of annexation by New England towns. The city's official elevation, as measured at Logan International Airport, is 19 ft (5.8 m) above sea level. The highest point in Boston is Bellevue Hill at 330 feet (100 m) above sea level, and the lowest point is at sea level. Situated near the Atlantic Ocean, Boston is the only state capital in the contiguous United States with an ocean coastline. Boston is surrounded by the Greater Boston region and is contiguously bordered by the cities and towns of Winthrop, Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Newton, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, Milton, and Quincy. The Charles River separates Boston from Cambridge and Watertown, and the mass of Boston from its own Charlestown neighborhood. To the east lie Boston Harbor and the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (which includes part of the city's territory, specifically Calf Island, Gallops Island, Great Brewster Island, Green Island, Little Brewster Island, Little Calf Island, Long Island, Lovells Island, Middle Brewster Island, Nixes Mate, Outer Brewster Island, Rainsford Island, Shag Rocks, Spectacle Island, The Graves, and Thompson Island). The Neponset River forms the boundary between Boston's southern neighborhoods and the city of Quincy and the town of Milton. The Mystic River separates Charlestown from Chelsea and Everett, and Chelsea Creek and Boston Harbor separate East Boston from Boston proper. The city's water supply, from the Quabbin and Wachusett Reservoirs to the west, is one of the very few in the country so pure as to satisfy federal quality standards without filtration. Boston is sometimes called a city of neighborhoods because of the profusion of diverse subsections; there are 21 officially designated neighborhoods. More than two-thirds of inner Boston's modern land area did not exist when the city was founded, but was made by filling over the centuries, notably with earth from the leveling or lowering of Boston's three original hills (the Trimountain, after which Tremont Street is named), and with gravel brought by train from Needham to fill the Back Bay. Downtown and its immediate surroundings consists largely of low-rise (often Federal style and Greek Revival) masonry buildings, interspersed with modern highrises, notably in the Financial District, Government Center, and South Boston. Back Bay includes many prominent landmarks, such as the Boston Public Library, Christian Science Center, Copley Square, Newbury Street, and New England's two tallest buildings the John Hancock Tower and the Prudential Center.
First Church of Christ, Scientist - San Jose, Ca
Digital documentation of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in San Jose, Ca, built in 1905
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was designed by Willis Polk and built in 1905. The plan of the building is a Greek cross; four Ionic columns dominate the entry portico. Since the construction of a new church in 1946, the building has been used for a variety of purposes. Its scale and dignity make it an important contributor to the city's architectural heritage
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Born in 1979 to a Palestinian-Lebanese mother and an Iraqi-German father, Rayyan Al-Shawaf lived in the UAE, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Lebanon, and the US. These days, he makes his home in Malta. Rayyan is a book critic whose reviews and essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, and other publications. He recently traveled to the United States, to visit with friends in Florida and to promote his first novel, When All Else Fails. His protagonist a Chaldean, I was delighted that he stopped at Michigan to be on my show and visit our home where we engaged in the most fascinating conversations about religion, politics, Europe and the Middle East. I’m currently reading his book and enjoying it.
Boston's Neighborhoods : The Back Bay
- Beginning in 1857 and continuing until 1880, Boston's Back Bay neighborhood was created entirely by man. The body of water separating Boston from Brookline was filled, adding 450 acres of land to the city of Boston. Today it stands as one of the Boston's premiere neighborhoods. Marked by historic and exclusive boulevards, such as Newbury Street and Commonwealth Avenue , the Back Bay is home to the northern portion of the city's Emerald Necklace, the green space that threads its way through the inner core of the city.
The Back Bay is one of the busiest retail sections of Boston, with a thriving commercial center along Boylston Street and Newbury Street, which include the nearby enclosed shopping malls at the Shops at Prudential Center and Copley Place
The Back Bay's borders are encompassed by the Charles River, Massachusetts Avenue, and the Boston Public Garden. Known for its exclusive real estate, abundance of spas, high end retail stores, art galleries, cafes and architecturally significant brownstones, Back Bay is also one of the prettiest neighborhoods in the entire country. The residential streets of Back Bay are some of the best preserved examples of late 19th century urban architecture in the entire country.
Grab a bite to eat at one of the many restaurants or outdoor cafes lining Newbury Street. Day and night, summers bring crowded patios and leisurely lunches and dinners al fresco, with some of the best people watching vantage points in town. Some of America's top retail stores and art galleries dot Newbury Street from Arlington Street down to Massachusetts Avenue.
There is plenty of green space in the Back Bay. Stroll down the Commonwealth Avenue Mall to view the blocks and blocks of brownstones, statues and memorials and residents walking their beautiful dogs. The mall connects the Public Garden to the Fens.
Created in 1837, the Boston Public Garden is one of Boston's great attractions and America's first botanical garden. Admire the rich and unusual plantings, over 80 species are cultivated for future plantings, the Lagoon, monuments and fountains. And of course, the Swan Boats on the lagoon, which has operated for over 100 years.
The Charles River Esplanade is home to the famous Hatch Shell and it's regular summertime concerts, including the annual Fourth of July celebration with the Boston Pops. The bike path runs 23 miles along the banks of the Charles River.
Community Boating is the oldest continuously operating community sailing program in the United States. Offering sailing and windsurfing instruction, members are allowed to use their Cape Cod Mercury boats on the Charles River.
Copley Square is anchored by the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel, The Boston Public Library, a leading example of Beaux-Arts architecture in the US, The Old South Church, and The 60 story dark blue glass John Hancock Tower.
And of course, there's Trinity Church, founded in 1733, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. Trinity Churchg is the only building in Boston that has been honored as one of the Ten Most Significant Buildings in the United States by the American Institute of Architects.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist is The Mother Church and headquarters of the Christian Science Church. Designed by famed architect I.M. Pei, the 14 acre plaza includes a reflecting pool and fountain that makes it one of Boston's most visually recognizable sites.
Some of Boston's finest museums are located in the Back Bay. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is modeled after the Renaissance palaces of Venice, Italy. The building surrounds a glass covered garden courtyard, the first of its kind in America. The Museum of Fine Arts is one of the largest museums in the United States, and offers one of the most comprehensive art collections in the Americas.
Symphony Hall was built in 1900 for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and is considered, acoustically, one of the top three concert halls in the world. It is also home to the famous Boston Pops Orchestra & the Handel and Hayden Society.
The Back Bay offers some of Boston's premier real estate. From the early Victorian Houses on Commonwealth Avenue, dating back to around 1860, to townhouse condominiums, prewar buildings and some of the newer, full services buildings such as the Four Seasons Place, The Heritage and LeJardin, One Charles, and the Carlton House Residences, all located on the Public Garden. Located near the Prudential Center, The Mandarin Oriental and Belvedere Residences are centrally located in the heart of Back Bay. The Clarendon, across from the Hancock Tower and Trinity Place, overlooking Copley Square also offer prime locations and luxurious amenities.
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Church of Christ, Scientist
The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founder and discoverer of Christian Science. The church was founded to commemorate the word and works of [Christ Jesus] and reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing. Sunday services are held throughout the year and weekly testimony meetings are held on Wednesday evenings, where following brief readings from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, those in attendance are invited to give testimonies of healing brought about through Christian Science prayer.
In the early decades of the 20th century, Christian Science churches sprang up in communities around the world, though in the last several decades of that century, there was a marked decline in membership, except in Africa, where there has been growth. Headquartered in Boston, the church does not officially report membership, and estimates as to worldwide membership range between about 400,000 to less than 100,000.
The church was incorporated by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 following a claimed personal healing in 1866, which she said resulted from reading the Bible. The Bible and Eddy's textbook on Christian healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, are together the church's key doctrinal sources and have been ordained as the church's dual impersonal pastor.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, is widely known for its publications, especially The Christian Science Monitor, a weekly newspaper published internationally in print a...
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Boston is Massachusetts’ capital and largest city. Founded in 1630, it’s one of the oldest cities in the U.S. The key role it played in the American Revolution is highlighted on the Freedom Trail, a 2.5-mile walking route of historic sites that tells the story of the nation’s founding. One stop, former meeting house Faneuil Hall, is a popular marketplace.
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The 22-Year Ban on Christmas in Massachusetts
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Why did the Massachusetts Bay Colony ban Christmas for 22 years? Today, we look at why the majority of Puritan pilgrims who colonized New England despised Christmas. We delve into their religious objections to its observance and their qualms with how Christmas was celebrated in that era. We finally touch on how this anti-Christmas sentiment started to deteriorate.
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Martindale, Cyril Charles. Christmas. The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company,1908. 20 Dec. 2018
Nissenbaum, Stephen W. “Christmas in Early New England, 1620-1820: Puritanism, Popular Culture, and the Printed Word.” American Antiquarian Society, 1996.
Schnepper, Rachel N. “The Puritan War on Christmas.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 14 Dec. 2012, nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/the-puritan-war-on-christmas.html.
Tourgee, Heather. “How the Puritans Banned Christmas.” New England Today, 19 Dec. 2018, newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/how-the-puritans-banned-christmas/.
Christian Science Plaza and the Prudential Center at night- Time Lapse
The Christian Science Plaza is a 14-acre pedestrian refuge amid the busy traffic patterns of Boston's urban environment and attracts thousands of visitors each year from all over the world. In the heart of the Plaza sits The Original Mother Church, built in 1894, and its domed extension, built in 1906. The Plaza also includes an arboretum of linden, oak, and honey locust trees, a 686-foot-long reflecting pool, the children's fountain, and the world-famous Mapparium™, the most popular exhibit at The Mary Baker Eddy Library. The Plaza has been influenced over the past two centuries by several architects, including Chester Lindsay Churchill in the 1930s and the firm of I.M. Pei & Partners and Araldo A. Cossutta, Associated Architects, in the 1970s and is a designated Boston Landmarks Property.
Prudential Center complex, currently stands as the 2nd-tallest building in Boston, behind the John Hancock Tower. The Prudential Tower was designed by Charles Luckman and Associates for Prudential Insurance. Completed in 1964, the building is 749 feet (228 m) tall, with 52 floors. It contains 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m2) of commercial and retail space. Including its radio mast, the tower stands as the tallest building in Boston and is tied with others as the 77th-tallest in the United States, rising to 907 feet (276 m) in height. A 50th-floor observation deck, called the Skywalk Observatory, is currently the highest observation deck in New England open to the public, as the higher observation deck of the John Hancock Tower has been closed since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. A restaurant, The Top of the Hub, occupies the 52nd floor.
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What a Glorious Thing to Be
This video is dedicated to Bethel Knoche (1919-April 27, 2003) and other women who persevered through bias and prejudice against women organists in public life and positions of leadership.
The hymn is reflective of the exuberant joy to be in the light of God, thought to be intelligence and truth. This would include insight, inspiration, music, beauty, spirit and art.
What a glorious thing to be in the light of God, original text by Carrie Church Thomas altered by Alice Edwards. It was set to the present tune by Franklin S. Weddle and Evan A. Fry.
Performed by artist Bethel Knoche (1919-2003) in 1966 for the album, Favorite Hymns from the Auditorium Organ. Knoche was the first staff musician for the Community of Christ (formerly RLDS church).
Early 20th century (b. 1930 or before) American women organists/composers include:
Mary Chappell Fisher, a Founder of the American Guild of Organists.
Gertrude Elizabeth MeKellar, first women to pass an AGO exam and become a Fellow.
Ella Scoble Opperman who studied with Harold Gleason at The Eastman School and with Guilmant in Paris.
Sister Mary Cherubim Schaefer, a profilic composer.
Florence Price, the first African American organist and composer to achieve popular fame.
Lillian Carpenter, studied with Gaston Dethier and served on the faculty of The Juilliard for more than 30 years.
Miriam Gideon, trained organist and famous Jewish composer, collaborated with Herman Berlinski.
Roberta Bitgood, first female president of the American Guild of Organists.
Charlotte Garden, rising concert organist killed in an auto accident. She premiered Alec Wyton's Fanfare at St. John the Divine.
Ruth Barrett Arno Phelps, organist at the Mother Church, First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston.
Catharine Crozier, studied with Harold Gleason and Eastman School faculty member.
Marilyn Mason, Univ. of Michigan faculty and famous recitalist.
Orpha Ochse, studied with Gleason at The Eastman, taught, concertized, and authored several books on the organ.
Emma Lou Diemer, organist who became famed composer.
Wilma Jensen, scholar, recitalist, and one of only several who studied with Gleason and Crozier at The Eastman School.
Bethel Knoche, radio broadcast pioneer, studied with Gleason and Crozier at The Eastman School, collaborated with Herman Berlinski, supervised design and installation of The Auditorium Organ, Aeolian Skinner, opus 1309.
Edna Treat, early female faculty at university schools of music, studied at The Eastman School.
See: Unsung: A History of Women in American Music, by Christine Ammer
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The Auditorium is the largest faith-based domed space in the world. It is second only to Royal Albert Hall in London for arts and cultural domes.
The organ is Aeolian Skinner, opus 1309, four manuals, 113 ranks, 6,334 pipes, completed in 1959. The organ was designed with three main purposes in mind -- for use in recital, for oratorio accompaniment, and for congregational singing. See:
The instrument is located in the Community of Christ Auditorium in Independence, Missouri. Comparatively, it is one of the largest faith-based pipe organs in the U.S., and the largest in Missouri, following the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. Bethel Knoche supervised the design and installation of the organ.
The Auditorium and related sites and President Harry S. Truman sites are the top tourist destinations in Independence, Missouri.- created at
List of former Christian Science churches, societies and buildings | Wikipedia audio article
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This is a list of former Christian Science churches, societies, and buildings. Following its early meteoric rise, the Christian Science Church suffered a steep decline in membership in the second half of the twentieth century. Though the Church is prohibited by the Manual of The Mother Church from publishing membership figures, the number of branch churches in the United States has fallen steadily since World War II. A 1992 study of the Christian Research Journal found that church membership had fallen from 269,000 in the 1930s to about 150,000. Some believe membership has fallen further since then, however current estimates for church membership vary widely, from under 100,000 to 600,000.Dr. Stephen Barrett has reported that since 1971, the number of practitioners and teachers listed in the Christian Science Journal has fallen from about 5,000 to about 1,160 and the number of churches has fallen from about 1,800 to about 1,000.The purpose of this list is to identify and quantify this decline in Christian Science institutions and those related to Christian Science, as well as catalog the buildings and spaces once used by the Christian Science Church. While it is impossible to get accurate membership figures, it is possible to determine the decline in institutions through official church publications and other sources.
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1. 111 Huntington Avenue - view from the Prudential Tower
2. 111 Huntington Avenue (Prudential Center)
3. 111 Huntington Avenue (Prudential Center) - view from the bottom
4. 500 Boylston Street
5. 60 State Street
6. 75 State Street - view from the bottom
7. Boston downtown - view from the Prudential Tower
8. Boston downtown at night - view from the Prudential Tower
9. Boston Public Library
10. Boston Public Library at night
11. Christian Science Church Park
12. Christian Science Church Park and the Prudential Center
13. Christian Science Church Park and the Prudential Center at night
14. Christian Science Church Park at night
15. City Place
16. Custom House Tower
17. Custom House Tower at night - view from the bottom
18. Custom House Tower at night
19. Exchange Place
20. Exchange Place - view from the bottom
21. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
22. Fenway Park
23. First National Bank of Boston building - view from the bottom
24. First National Bank of Boston building
25. Hancock Tower view from the Prudential Tower
26. Hilton Boston Hotel - view from the Prudential Tower
27. Hotel Intercontinental Boston
28. IMAX Theatre - Matthew and Marcia Simons Theatre
29. John Hancock Tower - view from the bottom
30. John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse
31. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT
32. Massachusetts State House
33. Massachusetts State House at night
34. New England Aquarium
35. One Boston Place - view from the Prudential Tower
36. One Financial Center
37. One International Place
38. Prudential Tower
39. South Station
40. The Boston Park Plaza Hotel
41. The Christian Science Publishing Society
42. The Fairmont Copley Plaza
43. The First Church of Christ Scientist
44. The Salvation Army building
45. Trinity Church - view from the Prudential Tower
46. Trinity Church
47. Trinity Church at night
48. Westin Copley Place - view from the Prudential Tower
Grant and Aunt J do Boston in 10 Minutes
Grant and Aunt J run through their day and a half of Boston supported by Grant's pictures of the trip... most of them. Amazingly, we did this with no notes. We were proud. :)
Thanks danimal for the inspiration!
Music from and of course... Boston. ;)
Here's all the stuff we hit in exactly 1.5 days:
Jamaica Plains
Flute Recital
Whale Watch
Boston Harbor tour (ICA, Trade Center, Castle Island, Logan Airport, oldest lighthouse)
Brookline - Coolidge Corner
Green Line C Train - Beacon Street / Brookline
Newbury Street / Boston
Boylston Street / Boston
Prudential Center
Huntington Avenue
Duck Tours
Zakim bridge
Charles River
Skywalk Observatory
Mac store
Marathon finish line
Copley Square
Boston Public Library
Trinity Chapel
Hancock Tower
Commonwealth Ave (Comm Ave)
Public Garden
George Washington statue
Swan boats
Make Way for Ducklings
Cheers bar
Beacon Hill
State House (gold dome)
Sculpture 1st Volunteer African American regiment - civil war
Boston Common
Park Street Church
Granary Burial Ground (Ben Franklin, Paul Revere)
King's Chapel
King's Chapel Burial Ground (name?) (Mayflower, William Dawes, Gov Winthrop born late 1500's)
School street
Old City Hall
Old South Meeting House
Downtown Crossing
Financial district
Old State House
Fanuiel Hall
Great Hall (lecture place)
Quincy Market (scallops)
Rose Kennedy Greenway
North End
Paul Revere Statue
Old North Church
Paul Revere's House
Bronzed garbage
Union Oyster House
Holocaust Memorial
Government Center
Symphony Hall
World Headquarters - Christian Science Church
Berklee College of Music
Kenmore Square (dinner)