The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's traditional upper class. They are often associated with a cultivated New England or Mid-Atlantic dialect and accent, Harvard University, Anglicanism, and traditional British American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins. They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs).
Typical dress of the Boston elite, c. 1816–1817
Beacon Hill, a preeminent Boston Brahmin neighborhood in the vicinity of the Massachusetts State House
Samuel Adams, American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and Founding Father of the United States
John Amory Lowell, banking merchant
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeast after New York City and Philadelphia. The Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area, including and surrounding the city, is the largest in New England and eleventh-largest in the country.
Image: Boston panoramio (23)
Image: ISH WC Boston 4
Image: Boston Old State House (48718568688)
Image: Boston Massachusetts State House (48718911666)
