Boston Sites & Insights: An Essential Guide to Historic Landmarks In and Around BostonBeacon Press, 2004 M05 15 - 368 páginas Whether you're looking for a history of one of the city's world-class museums or for a fascinating story about Boston's popular North End, Susan Wilson covers it all in Boston Sites and Insights. Divided into six sections that reflect the diversity of people, activities, and landmarks within the city, this fascinating book leaves no stone unturned. With practical, up-to-date information in an "Essentials" section at the end of each chapter as well as fresh retellings of popular legends and lore, Wilson provides everything the modern visitor or current resident needs to know to enjoy the multicultural city of Boston, Massachusetts." |
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THE OLD STATE HOUSE | 4 |
FANEUIL HALL | 11 |
THE OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE | 17 |
THE PAUL REVERE HOUSE | 23 |
MINUTE MAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK | 28 |
THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT | 34 |
ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK | 40 |
THE STATE HOUSE | 45 |
THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | 179 |
THE PARKER HOUSE | 185 |
LOUISBURG SQUARE | 191 |
WALDEN POND | 196 |
The Many Faces of Boston MINORITIES IMMIGRANTS AND UNSUNG HEROES | 203 |
THE AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE | 207 |
THE CHARLES STREET MEETING HOUSE | 213 |
THE ABIEL SMITH SCHOOL | 217 |
USS CONSTITUTION | 51 |
THE FREEDOM TRAIL | 56 |
From Here to Eternity HOUSES OF WORSHIP AND HOMES FOR THE DEAD 65 | 65 |
THE FIRST CHURCH IN ROXBURY 69 888 | 67 |
KINGS CHAPEL | 74 |
THE OLD NORTH CHURCH | 80 |
TRINITY CHURCH | 86 |
THE GRANARY BURYING GROUND | 92 |
MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY | 98 |
The Athens of America ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT IN BOSTON | 105 |
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | 109 |
THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM | 116 |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS AND MEMORIAL HALL | 122 |
SYMPHONY HALL | 131 |
THE COLONIAL THEATRE | 137 |
THE SHUBERT THEATER | 143 |
FENWAY PARK | 149 |
PARK STREET STATION | 155 |
Athens Two LITERARY BOSTON | 163 |
THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM | 167 |
THE OLD CORNER BOOKSTORE BUILDING | 172 |
THE SHAW54TH REGIMENT MEMORIAL | 223 |
THE BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL | 229 |
THE BOSTON WOMENS HERITAGE TRAIL | 235 |
HANOVER STREET | 241 |
THE OLD QUINCY SCHOOL | 247 |
THE VILNA SHUL | 252 |
THE PEABODY MUSEUMS HALL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN | 259 |
LOWELL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK | 265 |
The Green Green Grass of Home PARKS PLAYGROUNDS AND OPEN SPACES | 273 |
BOSTON COMMON | 277 |
THE PUBLIC GARDEN | 283 |
THE COMMONWEALTH AVENUE MALL | 289 |
ARNOLD ARBORETUM | 295 |
FRANKLIN PARK | 300 |
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE | 306 |
CASTLE ISLAND | 312 |
GEORGES ISLAND | 318 |
BLUE HILLS RESERVATION | 323 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
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Adams African Meeting House African-American artists Athenaeum battle Beacon Hill became began Black Heritage Trail Blue Hills Blue Hills Reservation Boston Common Boston Women's Heritage Bostonians British building building's built Bunker Hill Burying Ground century Charles Street Charlestown Church colonial cultural decades downtown ESSENTIALS Address Faneuil Hall Fenway Fenway Park floor Franklin Park Freedom Trail gallery Granary Burying Ground Harvard immigrants John King's Chapel land Lowell Massachusetts meetinghouse Memorial monument Mount Auburn Museum of Afro-American National Historical Park Native American nineteenth nineteenth-century North End Old North Old State House Olmsted original Park Street Parker Paul Revere Pond programs Public Garden Puritan Quincy renovation Roxbury Shubert Smith School Square statue structure Symphony Hall theater tion tours town Trail see Chapter Tremont USS Constitution Visitor Center Visitor Information Walden Walden Pond Website wheelchair accessible women Women's Heritage Trail