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Back Bay

Postcard from the Back Bay

July 11, 2015

Back Bay

Looking up Boylston Street from the corner of Berkeley in the 19th century. At right is the New England Museum of Natural History, a predecessor of the Boston Museum of Science. (The building is now occupied by Restoration Hardware — sigh.) To its left is the Boston Institute of Technology, now MIT. The tower at the far left is Old South Church in Copley Square. (via) I work nearby and pass this spot every day.

Filed Under: Boston Tagged With: Back Bay, history, postcards

After the flood

October 8, 2014

Clarendon Canal

A new report imagines Boston inundated by rising sea levels — as much as 7.5 feet higher than today. Above, Clarendon Street in the Back Bay converted into a canal. My office is just a few blocks from this intersection.

Filed Under: Boston Tagged With: Back Bay, climate change

Flickr Find of the Day

June 5, 2014

The Back Bay in progress. Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, looking west toward the intersection of Dartmouth Street, ca. 1872. The photo seems to have been taken from the tower of the First Baptist Church, on the corner of Clarendon Street. From the wonderful Flickr stream of the Boston Public Library.

Filed Under: Boston, Photography Tagged With: Back Bay, Flickr, history

Copley Square, 1910

January 7, 2012

Copley Square 1910

Copley Square from the roof of the Boston Public Library, ca. 1910 (Boston Public Library, via Park & Tremont)

Filed Under: Boston, Photography Tagged With: Back Bay, Copley Square, history

Back Bay, 1904

February 7, 2011

Back Bay 1904

Commonwealth Avenue, Back Bay, Boston, ca. 1904. (via)

Filed Under: Boston Tagged With: Back Bay

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