Beacon Hill is a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is also the location of the Massachusetts State House. The term "Beacon Hill" is used locally as a metonym to refer t
Park Street, looking toward Massachusetts State House, on Beacon Hill
Window boxes on cobblestoned Acorn Street on Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill in 1811, seen from the north toward the Massachusetts State House
Founders Memorial, John Francis Paramino, 1930. The memorial, located in the Boston Common, depicts the city's first English resident, William Blackstone, greeting colonial governor John Winthrop and his company.
The Boston Brahmins or New England Brahmin are members of Boston's historic upper class. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, they were often associated with a cultivated New Engla
Beacon Hill, Boston
…refer to the state government or the legislature itself, much like Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill does at the federal level. A bastion of "Old Money" Boston Brahmins, Federal-style rowhouses, narrow streets and brick sidewalks run through the neighborhood, which is generally regarded as one of the more desirable and…
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who coined the phrase "Boston Brahmin" in a January 1860 article he wrote for The Atlantic Monthly
The typical dress of the Boston elite, c. 1816–1817
Beacon Hill, a preeminent neighborhood for Boston Brahmin near the Massachusetts State House in Boston
Samuel Adams, American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and Founding Father of the United States