MA / Northeast
Explore the neighborhoods, public spaces and buildings of Boston through 9 articles.
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Beacon Hill’s south-facing houses and its north-slope Black heritage reveal different histories within the same compact district.
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Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market belong to a connected district, but their dates, purposes and stories are not interchangeable.
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Boston Common’s long history includes grazing, military occupation, burial and public protest as well as recreation.
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The Rose Kennedy Greenway is a chain of public landscapes over a highway tunnel, where the spaces between neighborhoods matter as much as the gardens.
A reading hall, a courtyard and several mural cycles explain the ambitions of Boston’s 1895 library.
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The North End’s buildings carry maritime, Black, Irish, Jewish and Italian histories that overlap.
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Copley Square brings a Romanesque church, a Renaissance-inspired library and a glass tower into one field of view.
A royal government building became a state house, city hall and museum while Boston grew around it.
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Boston’s waterfront path is a network of public access spaces created across many properties.
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