ARCHITECTURE IN BOSTON: A WALKING TOUR

ARCHITECTURE IN BOSTON: A WALKING TOUR

Selected Monuments on Beacon Hill and in the Back Bay.
Jeffery Howe, Boston College

BEACON HILL

1. Park Street Church, Park Street Federalist (Neoclassical) Peter Banner, 1809

2. State House, Beacon Hill Federalist (Neoclassical) Charles Bulfinch, 1795-98

Rear ext.: Ch. E. Brigham, 1889-95. Wings: Wm. Chapman, R. C. Sturgis,

& Robt. D. Andrews, 1914-17

3. Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, Boston Common, opposite State House.
Base: Classical Revival. Sculpture by A. Saint-Gaudens

Base by McKim, Mead & White

4. House, 57 Mount Vernon St. Federalist (Neoclassical)

Charles Bulfinch, before 1807

(nos. 51, 53, 55 also by Bulfinch)

5. 2nd Harrison Gray Otis House Federalist (Neoclassical)

85 Mount Vernon Street. Charles Bulfinch, 1800

6. Louisburg Square, Mount Vernon St. Greek Revival

S.P. Fuller, builder. Planned 1826; built 1834-37

7. Chapel of St. Margaret's Convent, Gothic Revival

Louisburg Square. Henry Vaughan, 1882

9. Women's City Club, 39-40 Beacon St. Greek Revival.
Alexander Parris (attr.) 1818. 4th floor added by Hartwell & Richardson

10. David Sears House, 42-43 Beacon St. Greek Revival.
Alexander Parris, 1819/1831

11. House, 54-55 Beacon St. Federalist (Neoclassical)
Asher Benjamin or Peter Banner, 1807

12. 3rd Harrison Gray Otis House Federalist (Neoclassical)
45 Beacon St. Charles Bulfinch, 1806. (now American Meteorological Society)

BACK BAY

13. The Public Garden, c. 1860 Inspired by French IInd Empire

14. First Church of Boston High Victorian Gothic

64 Marlborough St. Wm. Ware & H. Van Brunt, 1865. Fire 1968; P. Rudolph,1972

15. First Lutheran Church in Boston International Style

299 Berkeley St. Pietro Belluschi, 1957

16. B.W. Crowninshield House High Victorian Gothic

164 Marlborough St. H.H. Richardson,1870

17. Hollis H. Hunnewell house Victorian

315 Dartmouth St. Sturgis & Brigham,1869

18. Ames-Webster House, 306 Dartmouth "Queen Anne"

Peabody & Stearns, 1872; remodelled 1882 by Sturgis & Brigham; added tower,

conservatory, porte-cochere; murals by Benjamin Constant in stairwell

19. Brattle Square Church (First Baptist) Richardsonian Romanesque

Commonwealth Avenue. H.H. Richardson, 1870; sculpture by F.A. Bartholdi

20. Commonwealth Avenue, 1850ff. Inspired by new French

200' wide boulevards (IInd Empire)

21. Hotel Vendome, Commonwealth Avenue French Renaissance

Wm. G. Preston, 1875; reconstr. by Stahl/Bennett, 1971-75

22. Boston Art Club, Dartmouth St. "Queen Anne"

William Ralph Emerson, 1881

23. Exeter Theater (originally Romanesque Revival

Spritualist Temple), Exeter St. Hartwell & Richardson, 1884

COPLEY SQUARE 24-30.

24. New Old South Church, Boylston St. High Victorian Gothic

Cummings and Sears, 1974

25. Trinity Church, Copley Square Richardsonian Romanesque

H.H. Richardson, 1872-77; porch by Shepley, Coolidge & Rutan, 1897; altar

& chancel by Ch. D. Maginnis. 1938

26. Boston Public Library, Copley Square Classical Revival, or McKim, Mead & White, 1888-95; extension Beaux-Arts Classicism by Ph. Johnson, 1972

27. Copley Plaza Hotel, Copley Square Classical Revival

H. J. Hardenburgh & C.H. Blackall, 1912

28. John Hancock Tower, John Hancock Place International Style

I.M. Pei & Henry Cobb, 1973

29. Copley Square Plaza. International Style

Sasaki & Assoc., 1972

30. Copley Place, Copley Square Late Modernism

The Architect's Collaborative (TAC),1984

Additional Buildings of Note:

BEACON HILL

31. 1st Harrison Gray Otis House, Federalist (Neoclassical)

141 Cambridge St. Ch. Bulfinch, 1795-96 SPNEA Hdqtrs

32. Old West Church, Cambridge & Lynde St. Federalist (Neoclassical)

Asher Benjamin, 1806

33. Bulfinch Pavilion, Massachusetts Federalist (Neoclassical)

General Hospital, C. Bulfinch, 1816-17

34.House, 43 South Russel St. Federalist (Neoclassical)

Anon., 1797; oldest house on the Hill

35. House, 57 Hancock St. Egyptian Revival Columns

Anon., mid 19th c.

36. St. John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin St. Gothic Revival

Solomon Willard (?), 1831

37. House, 24 Pinckney St.

Wm. Ralph Emerson, c. 1885; remodelled 1802 stables; no two windows same size

38. Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon St. Renaissance Revival

Edward Cabot & George Dexter, 1847-49 (Arcade derived from Palladio's

Palazzo da Porta Festa, Vicenza, 16th c.)

39. Church of the Advent, Brimmer & Mt. Richardsonian Romanesque

Vernon Streets. J. Sturgis & Brigham; finished by R. Clipston Sturgis, 1876

COMMONWEALTH AVENUE

40. House, 199 Commonwealth Avenue Classical Revival

McKim, Mead & White

41. Algonquin Club, 219 Commonwealth Ave. Classical Revival

McKim, Mead & White, 1887

42. House, 297 Commonwealth Avenue Classical Revival

Peabody & Stearns, 1899

43. House, 303 Commonwealth Avenue Classical Revival

Peabody & Stearns, 1899

44. Burrage House (Boston Evening Clinic) French Renaissance

314 Commonwealth Avenue. Charles Brigham, 1899

45. Andrew House, 32 Hereford St. Classical Revival/Survival McKim, Mead &

White, 1883-84

46. House, 413-415 Commonwealth Avenue Classical Revival

McKim, Mead & White, 1890 (double house)

47. Ayer House (Bayridge Res. for Women) Art Nouveau

A.J. Manning & L.C. Tiffany, 1899-1900

48. Fire Station, Boylston & Hereford Sts. Romanesque Revival

Arthur Vinal, 1884; remodelled 1972

NEAR COPLEY SQUARE

49. Trinity Church Rectory, 233 Clarendon Richardsonian Romanesque

H.H. Richardson, 1879; 3rd story 1893

50. Museum of Natural History (now commercial store) Classical Revival

Wm. G. Preston, 1863

51. Central Congregational Church (now Gothic Revival

Ch. of the Covenant), Clarendon & Newbury

Richard M. Upjohn (son), 1866