Boston Public Library
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The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1848. The Boston Public Library is also Massachusetts' Library for the Commonwealth, meaning all adu
The Chavannes Gallery at the McKim Building with murals painted by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Bust of George Ticknor
The Boston Public Library on Boylston Street, which was open between 1858 and 1895 and was demolished 1899
The library's reading room in 1871 at the first Boylston Street building
Back Bay, Boston
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Back Bay is an officially recognized historic neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin. Construction began in 1859, as the demand for luxury housing ex
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…between 1872 and 1900. By 1880, the Massachusetts legislature authorized construction of an even grander library building. A site selected was in Back Bay on Copley Square, the prominent corner of Boylston Street and Dartmouth Street, opposite Richardson's Trinity Church and near the first Boston Museum…
Back Bay and the Charles River
Back Bay's "High Spine" of skyscrapers, including the Prudential Center and John Hancock Tower
Trinity Church c. 1903
Original home of the Museum of Fine Arts