This list of over 200 buildings in Boston and Eastern Massachusetts is not a typical “Make Lists,, Not War” list.  It is not a meta-list, although it does contain buildings on several meta-lists.  It is not a “best buildings” list, although it does contain buildings on some “best buildings” lists.

One of the precursors of this list was a meta-list I made in 2015 of the best buildings in Boston and Cambridge.  (You can find it HERE.)  I also created a post of modernist architecture in Cambridge, MA (see it HERE.)  Several Boston buildings also showed up on my lists of the best architects and their best buildings (HERE).

In 2021, I started collecting lists of the best buildings in Boston and eastern Massachusetts.  The best list I found was a July 25, 2018 article in Boston Magazine titled, “The 100 Best Buildings in Boston.”  But instead of creating a meta-list in the usual way and finding photos of the buildings on the Internet, I set out to visit and photograph as many of the buildings as I could.  Along  the way, I came across interesting buildings that weren’t on any of the lists, and I photographed them too.

The resulting list is a bit of a mix of well-known and more obscure buildings.  It is not meant to be all-inclusive, particularly for locations outside Boston. I tended to focus on the cities and towns I live in, work in, or visit frequently. By placing the buildings in chronological order, I hope to create a narrative about the development of various styles of architecture (and architects) over time. Please note that many buildings have complicated histories of renovations, additions, and restorations.  I’ve tried to include as much information as I could find in the “History” portion of the entry.

NOTE: I took all the photos but I have not copyrighted them. feel free to use or share.  It would be nice if you could credit or link to Make Lists, Not War: The Meta-Lists Website.

1.  James Blake House

   735 Columbia Rd., Dorchester, Boston, MA
   Built: 1661
   Architect: James Blake
   History: Originally built as part of a large agrarian estate by James Blake, the Blake House is the oldest existing house in Boston.  It was sold to the City of Boston in 1895. The Dorchester Historical Society restored the house and had it moved to Richardson Park in 1896. Another restoration project was completed in 2007.
   Style: Western English
   

2. Paul Revere House

   19 North Square, Boston, MA
   Built: 1680
   Architect: John Jeffs
   History: This home’s first owner was Robert Howard, a slave merchant. The building was renovated in the Georgian style in the mid-18th Century. Paul Revere owned the house from 1770 to 1800. The rear chimney was added c. 1790.  Architect Joseph Everett Chandler oversaw restoration efforts in 1907-1908. The building opened as house museum in 1908 and is now a stop on the Freedom Trail of Boston’s historic sites.
   Style: Elizabethan Tudor; Georgian
   

3. Captain William Smith House

   126 North Great Rd, Lincoln, MA
   Built: 1692
   Architect: Unknown
   History: This building was the home of Benjamin Whittemore (d. 1734) and, later, Captain William Smith (1746–1787), commanding officer of the Lincoln minutemen and brother of Abigail Adams. It was incorporated in Minute Man National Historical Park in 1975. The house was restored to is 1775 appearance in 1983-1985.
   Style: Colonial
   

4. Union Oyster House

   41-43 Union Street, Boston, MA
   Built: c. 1704-1713
   Architect: Unknown
   History: The building began as a commercial establishment.  Hopestill Capen’s dry goods business occupied the space from c. 1742 to 1826. Printer Isaiah Thomas published a newspaper “The Massachusetts Spy,” from the third floor beginning in 1771. In 1775, the store was the headquarters of Ebenezer Hancock, the first paymaster of the Continental Army. In 1796, exiled French noble Louis Phillippe (later King of France) lived on the 2nd floor. The building was renovated and opened as a restaurant in 1826 by Atwood & Bacon, and has been operating continuously since then.
   Style: Georgian
   

5. Old State House

   206 Washington Street, Boston, MA
   Built: 1712-1713
   Architect: Robert Twelves (possibly)
   History: The building served seat of Massachusetts colonial government from 1713-1776, and of Massachusetts state government from 1776-1798. The Interior was rebuilt after a fire in 1748. Occupying British troops used the building as a military barracks from 1768-1772.  Renovated by Thomas Dawes c. 1772.  Alterations by Isaiah Rogers, 1830. Restored by George Albert Clough, 1881-1882. Renovated by Goody, Clancy & Associates, 1991. Water-damaged masonry repaired, 2006. Tower restored and weather vane re-gilded, 2008.
   Style: Georgian
   
   

6. Old Corner Bookstore

   283 Washington St., Boston, MA
   Built: 1718
   Architect:
   History: Built as a residence by Thomas Crease. Renovated to become a bookstore in 1828. Home to Ticknor and Fields book publishers from 1832 to 1865. Renovations by Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, 1964. Renovations by William Rawn, 1985.
   Style: Colonial
   

7. Old North Church
   

   193 Salem St., Boston
   Built: 1723
   Architect: William Price
   History: The oldest standing church in Boston, the steeple was used to signal the British approach at the beginning of American Revolution, April 1775. Original steeple destroyed by a hurricane, 1804.  Replacement steeple by Charles Bulfinch, 1807. Replacement steeple destroyed by a hurricane, 1954. New steeple built, 1955(?).
   Style: Georgian

8. Old South Meeting House

   Corner of Washington and Milk street, Boston
   Built: 1729
   Architect: Robert Twelves (possibly)
   History: Served as a Congregational Church from 1729-1872. Site of gathering before Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773. Interior destroyed by British troops, 1775. Interior renovations by Thomas Dawes. Established as museum in 1877.
   Style: Georgian
   

9. Codman House

   34 Codman Road, Lincoln, MA
   Built: 1735
   Architect: Unknown
   History: Original house built by Chambers Russell was Georgian in style.  A major 1798-1799 enlargement and renovation converted the house to the Federal style.  Charles Bulfinch may have been involved in the 1798-1799 redesign.
   Styles: Georgian; Federal
   

10. Faneuil Hall

    1 South Market Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1740-1742
    Architects: John Smibert
    History: Grasshopper weather vane by Deacon Shem Drowne, 1742. Interior rebuilt after fire, 1762. Expansion by Charles Bulfinch, doubling height and width and adding third floor, 1806. Rebuilt of noncombustible materials, 1898–1899. Ground floor and basement remodeled, 1979.  Restoration, 1992.
    Style: Georgian
    

11. Henry Vassall House

    94 Brattle Street, Cambridge MA
    Built: c. 1746
    History: The original building on the site may date to the 1630s, but few traces remain.  The building was confiscated during the American Revolution and used as an army hospital.
    Style: Colonial
    

12. King’s Chapel

    Corner of Tremont and School streets, Boston, MA
    Built: 1749-1754
    Architect: Peter Harrison
    History: Home of first Anglican Church congregation in Boston. Many members were Loyalists who fled the Revolution. It remained empty during the war and was reopened in 1782.
    Style: Georgian
    

13. Longfellow House and Washington’s Headquarters
    

    105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1759
    Architect: Unknown follower of James Gibb.
    History: Originally owned by Tory John Vassall. Used by George Washington as headquarters 1775-1776.  Expanded by owner Andrew Craigie (adding side porches and ell in rear, expanding library into a ballroom), 1791. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived there from 1844 to his death in 1882.
    Style: Georgian
    

14. First Harrison Gray Otis House

    141 Cambridge Street, Boston
    Built: 1795-1796
    Architect: Charles Bulfinch
    History: Current entrance added after 1801. Restored by Abbott Lowell Cummings, 1960.
    Style: Federal
    

15. Lyman Estate

    185 Lyman Street, Waltham, MA
    Built: 1793-1798
    Architect: Samuel McIntire
    History: Expanded by Richardson, Hartwell & Driver, 1882.
    Styles: Colonial Revival; Federal
    

16. Massachusetts State House

    24 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1795-1798
    Architect: Charles Bulfinch
    History; The wood dome was covered with with copper by Paul Revere’s Revere Copper Company in 1802 and gilded in 1874. Expansion of building by Charles Brigham, 1895-1899. Wings added by Sturgis, Bryant, Chapman & Andrews, 1917. The Great Hall (Hall of Flags) was created in 1990 to designs by Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson & Abbott. The dome was re-gilded, 1997.
    Style: Federal
    
    

17. Phillips-Winthrop House

    One Walnut Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1804
    Architect: Charles Bulfinch
    History: Home of Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760-1841). Home of John Phillips (1770-1823), first major of Boston. Home of abolitionist Wendell Phillips (1811-1884).
    Styles: Federal; Adamesque
    

18. Jonathan Mason Houses

    51-57 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1804
    Architect: Charles Bulfinch
    History: Daniel Webster lived here in 1817–1819. Revised and renovated by Cornelius Coolidge, 1837-1838.
    Style: Federal
    

19. Gore Place

    52 Gore Street, Waltham, MA
    Built: 1805-1806
    Architect: jacques-Guillaume Legrand (possibly)
    History: Summer home of Massachusetts governor and senator Christopher Gore. After an earlier building burned, Christopher’s wife Rebecca Gore drew sketches for a new home. Gore sent the sketches to Rufus King and asked Jacques-Guillaume Legrand to draw up plans, although it is not clear if the house is based on plans of Legrand.
    Style: Federal
    
    

20. Old West Church

    131 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1806
    Architect: Asher Benjamin
    HIstory: The building has served as a church except for the period between 1894 and 1960, when it was a branch of the Boston Public Library.
    Style: Federal
    

21. Charles Street Meeting House

    70 Charles Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1804-1807
    Architect: Asher Benjamin
    History: Many abolitionists spoke here in the years before the Civil War. Purchased by The  First African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1876.  Exterior restored and interior renovated for mixed use by John Sharratt Associates, 1981-1982.
    Styles: Georgian; Colonial
    

22. William Hickling Prescott House

    54-55 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1808
    Architect: Asher Benjamin
    History: Benjamin designed the twin houses at 54-55 Beacon Street for original owner James Smith Colburn. Boston historian William Hickling Prescott lived at 55 Beacon Street from 1845-1859.
    Style: Federal
    

23. Park Street Church

    1 Park Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1809
    Architect: Peter Banner
    History: The building is 217 feet tall and was the tallest building in the United States from 1810 to 1828.  Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison gave his first speech here in 1829.
    Styles: English Baroque; Neoclassical
    

24. Union Club

    7-8 Park Street Place, Boston
    Built: 1809 (original); 1838 (revision)
    Architect: Charles Bulfinch (original); Gridley J.F. Bryant (renovations)
    History: The original owner of both houses was John Gore (nephew of Christopher Gore). Gore lived at No. 8 and leased or sold No. 7 to Dr. John Colllins Warren. Abbott Lawrence bought No 8 in 1836. In 1838, architect Gridley J.F. Bryant revised the house in the Greek Revival style with Regency-style wrought iron balconies. In 1863, the Union Club of Boston acquired No. 8.  Bryant and John Hubbard Sturgis oversaw the transformation into a clubhouse.  A fifth floor was added in the early 1880s by Peabody & Stearns, replacing the gable roof. The Club acquired No. 7 in 1896, gave it a 5th floor and matching façade, and incorporated it into the club.
    Styles: Greek Revival; Regency
    

25. Boston Manufacturing Company (Francis Cabot Lowell Apartments)

    144-190 Moody Street
    Built: 1813-1814
    Architect: Paul Moody
    History: First integrated spinning and weaving factory in the world, owned by Francis Cabot Lowell and associates, using water power and a power loom. Largest factory in the U.S., with a workforce of about 300. A second, larger mill was built in 1816. First and second mills connected, 1843. In the late 19th Century, the original mills were connected, the gable roofs removed, and additional floors were added with flat roofs.
    Style: Industrial
    

26. Salem Custom House

    176 Derby Street, Salem, MA
    Built: 1819
    Architect: Perley Putnam
    History: A wooden eagle carved by Joseph True was placed on the roof in 1826.  Nathaniel Hawthorne worked in the Customs House as a surveyor from 1846-1848. The original eagle was replaced by a fiberglass replica in 2004.
    Style: Federal
    

27. Somerset Club (Sears House and Crowninshield-Amory House)

    42-43 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1819 (Sears House); 1832 (Crowninshield-Amory House)
    Architect: Alexander Parris (Sears House)
    History:  Parris designed the original home for David Sears at 42 Beacon Street. In 1832, Sears expanded the house and had the Crowninshield-Amory House built for his daughter. In 1872, the private Somerset Club bought the Sears House and added the third floor. The Club also bought 43 Beacon and combined the two homes into one clubhouse.
    Style: Federal, with French elements
    

28. Nathan Appleton Residence

    39-40 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1818 or 1821 (sources differ)
    Architect: Alexander Parris
    History: The Nathan Appleton home is at 39 Beacon Street. The home at 40 Beacon Street, which was originally identical, was owned by Daniel Parker.  A fourth floor was added to both homes in the 1870s or in 1888 (sources differ). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Fanny Appleton were married in the house in 1843. In the 1870s a fourth floor was added; the original balustrades were retained. The buildings were the home of the Women’s City Club of Boston from 1914 to the 1990s.
    Style: mix of Federal and Greek Revival
    

29. Quincy Market

    206 South Market Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1824-1826
    Architects: Alexander Parris
    History: Restored to 1826 appearance by Architectural Heritage Inc., Roger Webb; Stahl/Bennett Architects. Frederic A. Stahl, Principal in Charge; Roger Lang, Project Manager; James H. Ballou, Consulting Architect; and William LeMessurier, Structural Engineer in 1969. Remodeled as part of Faneuil Hall Marketplace by Benjamin Thompson & Associates, architects, and Rouse Company, developer, 1976.
    Style: Greek Revival
    

30. Church of St. John the Evangelist

    35 Bowdoin St, Boston, MA
    Built: 1831
    Architect: Solomon Willard (attrib.)
    Style: Gothic Revival
    

31. Oliver Hastings House

    101 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1844
    History: Builder Oliver Hastings was the original owner. William Lawrence, professor and Dean of the Episcopal Theological School and Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, also lived there and made additions in the rear. The building is now owned by the Episcopal Divinity School.
    Style: Greek Revival
    

32. Boston Athenaeum

    10 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1847-1849
    Architect: Edward Clarke Cabot
    History: The building was renovated and expanded, adding the fourth and fifth floors, by Henry Forbes Bigelow in 1913-1914.
    Styles: Neoclassical; Renaissance Revival
    

33. Boston Custom House

    3 McKinley Square, Boston, MA
    Built: 1847-1849
    Architect; Ammi Burnham Young
    History: The Custom House Tower was added in 1913-1915 (see separate entry).
    Styles: Neoclassical; Greek Revival
    

34. The Liberty Hotel (former Charles Street Jail)

    215 Charles St., Boston
    Built: 1848-1851
    Architect: Gridley J.F, Bryant, with advice of prison reformer Rev. Louis Dwight
    History: The cupola was removed in 1949. In 1975, a Federal court found that the overcrowding of the jail violated prisoners’ constitutional rights. The jail closed in 1990. In 2007, the jail reopened as a hotel after renovations by Cambridge Seven Associates and Ann Beha Architects.  The renovations included: recreating the original cupola; removing the 18-foot prison wall; and building a 16-story guest room addition using contemporary materials.
    Style: Boston Granite; Renaissance Revival
    

35. Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church

    740 Tremont Street, Boston
    Built; 1862
    Architect: Hammatt Billings
    History:  The original Methodist Episcopal congregation left in the late 1960s, when the church became the New Hope Baptist Church. During a 1940 renovation, a large number of stained glass windows were installed. In 2011, the building was sold to private developers, who converted it to housing.
    Style: Gothic Revival
    

36. 234 Berkeley St (former Natural History Museum)

    Back Bay, Boston
    Built: 1863-1864
    Architect: William Gibbons Preston
    History: Built for the Boston Society of Natural History, which operated a natural history museum at the site until 1945, when the Society established the Museum of Science and moved to Science Park, Cambridge. More recent occupants have included: Bonwit Teller (1947-1989), Louis, Boston (1990-2010), and Restoration Hardware (2013-Present), after significant renovations by Backen, Gillam & Kroeger Architects.
    Style: Beaux-Arts; French Academic
    

37. Old City Hall

    45 School Street, Boston
    Built: 1862-1865
    Architects: Gridley J.F. Bryant and A.D. Gilman
    History: Built on the site of the Boston Latin School, which operated there from 1704 to 1748,  One of the first French Second Empire buildings in the U.S., it housed the Boston City Council from 1865-1969.  Architectural Heritage Foundation, Inc. (now AHF Boston) and Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc. renovated the building for private use in 1969-1971. Home of the restaurant Maison Robert from the early 1970s to 2004.
    Style: French Second Empire
    

38. Church of the Covenant

    67 Newbury Street, Boston
    Built: 1865-1867
    Architect: Richard M. Upjohn
    History: Formerly known as Central Church. In the 1890s the sanctuary was redecorated by Tiffany & Co. with stained-glass windows and mosaics and an electric-light chandelier designed by Jacob Adolphus Holzer.
    Style: Gothic Revival
    
    
    

39.  St. John’s Memorial Chapel

    99 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1867-1868
    Architects: Ware & Van Brunt
    History: Major renovations took place in 1930 and 1966-1967.  The building, formerly part of the Episcopal Divinity School, was purchased by Lesley University in 2018.
    Style: Gothic Revival
    

40. St. Mary’s Parish

    133 School Street, Waltham, MA
    Built: 1858-1872
    Architect: Unknown
    History: The church was enlarged in 1875. The steeple was added between c. 1876-1919.
    Style: Romanesque Revival
    

41. Wigglesworth Building

    89-93 Franklin Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1873
    Architect: Nathaniel Bradlee (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell)
    History: After an 1884 fire, the building was repaired and restored by Peabody & Stearns, who added the top floor in 1885.
    Style: Gothic Revival
    

42. Morse Institute Library

    14 East Central Street, Natick, MA
    Built: 1873
    Architect: George B. Thayer
    History:  Additions were built in 1927 and 1964. These were razed to make way for a new, much larger addition in 1997.
    Styles: Gothic Revival; High Victorian Gothic
    

43. Clark’s Block

    2 Summer Street, Natick, MA
    Built: 1874
    Architect: Unknown
    History: The original building was built in 1872, but burned in the Great Fire of 1874 and was rebuilt that year in the same style and dimensions. There is a large concert hall on the third floor.
    Style: Victorian Italianate
    

44. Old South Church (New Old South Church)

    645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1872-1875 (sources differ on completion date: 1873, 1874, or 1875)
    Architects: Cummings & Sears
    History: Tiffany & Co. redecorated the sanctuary in 1905. In the 1920s, the campanile began to list. In the early 1930s, it was dismantled and rebuilt. The church was expanded by Allen & Collens in 1935–1937. In the early 1950s, the sanctuary was renovated in a minimalist style. A restoration began in 1984 that restored the church to its 1875 appearance.
    Style: Venetian Gothic; Gothic Revival
    

45. Our Lady Help of Christians

    573 Washington Street, Newton, MA
    Built: 1873-1875
    Architect: James Murphy
    History: The façade was added in 1900.
    Style: Gothic Revival
    
    

46. Joseph K. Manning House

    35-37 Forest Street, Medford, MA
    Built: 1875
    Architect: Unknown
    Style: French Second Empire, Stick/Eastlake
    

47. The Bedford Block

    99 Bedford Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1875
    Architects: Cummings & Sears
    History:  The building was originally created as a retail shoe center for Henry and Francis Lee. Iron balconets and a short corner tower that faced the intersections of Bedford and Church Green streets were removed during 1983 renovations by the Bay-Bedford Company. Later renovations by The Architectural Team restored original details and design elements while adding a retail atrium.
    Style: Venetian Gothic; Ruskinian Gothic
    

48. Modern Theatre

    525 Washington Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1876; demolished and rebuilt with original façade, 2010
    Architects: Levi Newcomb (original)
    History: Originally named the Dobson Building. Clarence Blackall the building’s renovation into a movie theater in 1914.  In the 1970s, it was the Mayflower Theater, which showed X-rated films. In 2010, the building was demolished and rebuilt, retaining the original façade. for Suffolk University.
    Style: High Victorian Gothic
    

49. First Congregational Church

    2 East Central Street, Natick, MA
    Built: 1875-1877
    Architect: J.B. Goodall (attrib.)
    History: The auditorium was completed in 1881. Expanded on the south side in 1891. Renovations to add classroom and office space and make the building accessible to people with disabilities was completed in 2001.
    Style: Neo-Gothic; High Victorian Gothic
    

50. Trinity Church

    206 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1872-1877
    Architect: Henry Hobson Richardson
    History: This is the first building designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in the style that would become known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Interior murals and several stained glass windows by John LaFarge. The West Porch, added in 1897, was designed by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge.
    Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
    
    
    

    

51. Memorial Hall

    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1870-1877
    Architects: Ware & Van Brunt
    History:  The building was designed as a memorial to Harvard graduates who died fighting for the Union in the American Civil War.  The hall and transept were completed in 1874.  Sanders Theatre was completed in 1876.  The tower was completed in 1877.  The clock tower was added in 1897. The tower was destroyed in a 1956 fire but was rebuilt in 1996 to its 1877–1897 appearance.
    Style: Gothic Revival
    

52. Sunflower Castle

    130 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1840 (original); 1878 (Queen Anne renovations)
    Architect: Unknown.
    History: In the 1860s it was the home of interior designer and artist Frank Hill Smith, who painted the ceiling frescoes. In 1878, Charles Luce renovated the house in the Queen Anne style, In 1904 Gertrude Beals Bourne, a watercolor artist. moved into the castle with her husband, architect Frank Bourne.
    Style: Queen Anne
    

53. Burnham Hall 

    99-2 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1879
    Architects: Ware & Van Brunt
    History: Originally a dormitory of the Episcopal Divinity School. Renovated by Perry and Radford Architects and Energy Planning, Inc. in 2011. Purchased by Lesley University in 2018.
    

54. Waltham Watch Factory

    185-241 Crescent Street, Waltham, MA
    Built: 1879-1913
    Architects: Unknown
    History: A watch factory was located on the property from 1854 until 1957. The remaining elements on the site date from 1879-1913. In 1961, the First Republic Corporation of America purchased the property and converted it to a light manufacturing and warehousing facility. Panametrics occupied much of the site for a long period ending in 2004. A renovation of the site into apartments and a restaurant by Bruner/Cott Architects was completed in 2014.
    Style: Queen Anne; Romanesque
    

55. Sever Hall

    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1878-1880
    Architect: Henry Hobson Richardson
    History: The interior was renovated in 1950 and 1982.  The exterior was extensively repaired in 2005 by Goody Clancy.
    Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
    

56. Central Square Church (First Baptist Church)

    5 Magazine Street, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1881
    Architects: Hartwell and Richardson
    History: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the church in 1960. Renovation by Wessling Architects in 2020-2021.
    Style: Gothic Revival
    

57. Misses Sarah and Emma Cary House

    92 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1881
    Architect: Unknown
    Style: Stick; Queen Anne
    

58. Music Hall (Schneider Center and Billings Hall)

    Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
    Built: 1880-1881
    Architects: Ware & Van Brunt
    History: Addition in 1904 by Angell and Swift. Interior remodeled by Donald Gillespie in 1968-1970.  Schneider Center, which served as the student center before the Lulu Wang Center opened in 2005, was renovated by designLAB in 2014.
    Style: Chateauesque
    

59. Mary Fiske Stoughton House

    90 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1882
    Architect: Henry Hobson Richardson
    History: In 1900, the kitchen wing was expanded westward and the rear of the house was expanded southward. In 1925, a new kitchen was created as a projecting bay to the front façade, and a third story was added to the east façade’s bay window. The kitchen wing was altered again after 1969, with the 1900 and 1925 kitchens merged and converted into a garage.
    Style: Shingle Style

60. Hemenway Building

    10 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1883-1884
    Architects: Winslow & Wetherall
    Style: Art Nouveau; Romanesque
    

61. Calf Pasture Pumping Station

    435 Mt. Vernon Street, Columbia Point, Boston, MA
    Built: 1883
    Architect: George Clough
    HIstory: The first sewage treatment plant in Boston, it ceased operations in 1968.
    Style: Richardsonian Romanesque; Queen Anne; Romanesque Revival
    

62. The Claflin Building

    18-20 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1883-1884
    Architect: William Gibbons Preston
    History: Originally built by Boston University and named for co-founder Lee Claflin.  The facade features portrait plaques of Albrecht Dürer and Anthony van Dyck. Renovated into condominiums by Designers America Dural c. 2008-2009.
    Styles: Queen Anne; Romanesque Revival
    

63. Cyclorama

    543-547 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1884
    Architects: Charles Amos Cummings & Willard T. Sears
    History: The Cyclorama was originally created to house Paul Dominique Philippoteaux’s panoramic depiction of The Battle of Gettysburg. In 1889, it hosted a cyclorama painting called Custer’s Last Fight. John Gardner converted the building to a venue for popular entertainment in 1890. In the early 20th Century, it was an industrial space (Albert Champion invented the spark plug here in 1907). The Boston Flower Exchange, which owned and occupied the site from 1923 to 1970, added a new entrance and a skylight in the central dome. The building has been home to the Boston Center for the Arts since 1970.
    Style: Classical Revival
    

64. First Spiritual Temple (Exeter Theater)

    26 Exeter Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1884-1885
    Architects: Hartwell & Richardson
    History: The building was was the first formal house of worship in the United States for the religion of Spiritualism. In 1914, it was renovated by Clarence Blackall to become a movie theater, which closed in 1984.  A glass front was added in 1974.  After various occupants (including a TGI Fridays restaurant), it became home to the Kingsley Montessori School in 2005.
    Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
    

65. Longfellow’s Reach

    5 Ash Street, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1886
    Architect: Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.
    History:  This is the first house designed by architect Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
    Style: Colonial? Shingle?
    

66. Stonehurst (Robert Treat Paine Estate)

    100 Robert Treat Paine Drive, Waltham, MA
    Built: 1886
    Architect: Henry Hobson Richardson, architect
    HIstory: The landscape was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead. The Paine family occupied the house until the mid-1960s.  In 1974 Theodore Lyman Storer donated the property to the city of Waltham.
    Style: Shingle
    

67. Lord’s Castle

    211 Hammond Street, Waltham, Ma
    Built: 1886
    Architect: Rufus E. Lord
    History:  Lord owned a prominent construction business in Waltham. He was inspired by Norman castles.
    Style: Norman Revival
    

68. Boston Fire Department, Engine 33, Ladder 15

    941-955 Boylston St., Boston
    Built: 1888
    Architect: Arthur H. Vinal
    History: The building has served as a fire station since 1888.
    Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
    

69. Boston Architectural College (former Boston Police Station 16)

    Built: 1888
    Architect: Arthur H. Vinal
    History: Originally a station of the Boston Police Department.  Home of the Institute for Contemporary Art from 1976 to 2007. Acquired by Boston Architectural College in 2007.
    Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
    

70. Cambridge Public Library (old building)

    449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1888
    Architect: Van Brunt & Howe
    History:  Additions in 1894, 1902, 1967, and 2009.  Renovations to designs by Ann Beha Architects were completed in 2009, when the new extension was built.  (See separate entry for 2009 building.)
    Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
    

71. Ames Building

    1 Court Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1889 (exterior); 1893 (interior)
    Architects: Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
    HIstory: It is the second tallest masonry load bearing-wall structure in the world. In 2007, the building was converted from office space to a luxury hotel, using designs by Cambridge Seven Associates. The hotel closed in 2019. In 2020, Suffolk University bought the building and converted it into a residence hall.
    Style: Romanesque
    

72. Beth Eden Baptist Church

    82-84 Maple Street, Waltham, MA
    Built: 1891
    Architect: William M. Butterfield
    History: The building suffered a major fire in 1908, from which it was rebuilt to largely the same plan, allowing increased space for an organ.
    Style: Romanesque Revival
    

73. Flour & Grain Exchange Building

    177 Milk Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1891-1893
    Architect: Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
    History: The Beal Companies restored the facade in 1988.
    Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
    

74. International Trust Company Building

    39-47 Milk Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1892-1893
    William Gibbons Preston, architect
    History: The building is an early example of the Beaux-Arts style and an early prototype of the use of skeleton framing. It was enlarged in 1906, to a design by Woodbury & Leighton.
    Style: Beaux-Arts
    

75. Winthrop Building (formerly Carter Building)

    7 Water Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1893
    Architect: Clarence H. Blackall (Blackall & Newton)
    History: This is the first skyscraper in Boston to be constructed with a steel frame.
    Style: Renaissance Revival

    

76. John Adams Courthouse (Suffolk County Courthouse)

    3 Pemberton Square, Boston, MA
    Built: 1893
    Architect: George Clough
    History: The Supreme Judicial Court and the Social Law Library occupied the building from 1893 to 1938.  A 1909 enlargement of the building, also by Clough, added the French Chateau-style roof.  Extensive renovations took place according to plans by Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc. from 1998-2002. In 2002, the Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and the Social Law Library returned to the restored building, which was renamed the John Adams Courthouse.
    Style: French Second Empire; Classical Revival
    

77. The Dutch House

    20 Netherlands Road, Brookline, MA
    Built: 1893
    Architect:  Guillaume Wyuen
    History: The building was originally created as an exhibition hall for the Van Houten Cocoa Company at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, It is a close copy of the Franeker City Hall in Franeker, Netherlands. The door frame is a replica of the Enkhuizen Orphanage. After seeing the building at the Fair, Brookline resident Charles Brooks Appleton purchased it, had it dismantled brick by brick and reconstructed at its present location, A significant restoration project began in 2011, with much of the outer decoration reconstructed (much of it by sculptor Beckie Kravetz), with work continuing until at least 2018.
    Style: Dutch High Renaissance
    

78. Original Mother Church

    Christian Science Center, 250 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA
    Built: 1894
    Architect: Franklin I. Welch
    History: Built to house the services of the Christian Science Church, although the congregation quickly outgrew the space, requiring the construction of the Mother Church Extension (separate entry).
    Style: Romanesque Revival
    

79. Boston Public Library (McKim Building)

    Copley Square, Boston, MA
    Built: 1895
    Architect: Charles Follen McKim (McKim, Mead, and White)
    History: The first major Beaux Arts building in the United States, and also the first large-scale urban library building in the nation. The three sets of bronze doors, added in 1904, are by Daniel Chester French. Flanking the entry are allegorical representations of Science (to the south) and Art (to the north), completed by Bela Pratt in 1912. The interior includes murals by John Singer Sargent, Edwin Austin Abbey, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Bates Hall was restored in 1993.
    Styles: Renaissance Revival, Beaux-Arts
    

80. Tremont Temple

    88 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1896
    Architect: Clarence Blackall
    History: The building was originally designed with spaces for retail shops and offices that could be rented out to provide financial support to the church.
    Style: Renaissance Revival
    

81. Second Brazer Building

    25-29 State Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1897
    Architect: Cass Gilbert
    History: The building is an early local example of a steel frame structure with curtain walls. It is the only Cass Gilbert designed building in Boston.
    Styles: Beaux-Arts; Classical Revival
    

82. Proctor Building

    100-106 Bedford Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1897
    Architect: Winslow & Wetherell & Bigelow
    History: Unusual for its Spanish Renaissance style and extensive use of terra-cotta. Originally occupied by a shoe manufacturer, the building was later home to cigar shops and lunch restaurants.
    Style: Spanish Renaissance
    

83. The Russia Building (former Russia Wharf)

    518-540 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA
    Built: 1897 (gutted and renovated 2011)
    Architects: Peabody & Stearns
    History: Extensive renovations of this and other Russia Wharf buildings from 2006-2011, including addition of 32-floor high rise building.  The facades remain substantially the same as in 1897.
    Style: Renaissance Revival
    

84. Diamond & Jewelers Building

    371-379 Washington Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1897-1898 (right side); 1902-1904 (left side)
    Architects: Winslow & Wetherell  Boston (1897-1898); Arthur Bowditch (1902-1904)
    History: The slightly smaller, northern part, occupying the corner of Bromfield and Washington Streets, was constructed in 1897-1898. The southern part was constructed between 1902 and 1904.
    Style: Beaux-Arts; Spanish Renaissance
    

85. Puffer’s Building

    214-218 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA
    Built: c. 1898
    Architect: Unknown
    HIstory: “[T]his Queen Anne-styled brick building was owned by A.D. Puffer, and originally housed several sweatshops which employed newly-arrived immigrant workers. It became one of the sites on Beacon Hill that produced rolled cigars from tobacco leaves.” [Boston Women’s Heritage Trail Guide, https://bwht.org/west-end-tour/%5D
    Style: Queen Anne
    

86. S.S. Pierce Building 

    1336 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA
    Built: 1898
    Architect: Winslow & Wetherell
    History:  When it opened, the S.S. Pierce Store at Coolidge Corner sold imported goods from all over the world, as well as local provisions from Boston area farmers and artisans. The original building featured an opening under the tower’s roof for people to stand and observe the street, sadly, it was damaged in the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, and was rebuilt without the belvedere.
    Style: Tudor Revival
    

87. South Station (The Gov. Michael S. Dukakis Transportation Center)

    700 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA
    Built: 1898-1899
    Architects: Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
    History: The train shed was eliminated in a 1930 renovation. After the Boston Redevelopment Authority purchased the property in 1965, portions of the station were demolished to build the Boston South Postal Annex and the Stone and Webster building. The BRA sold the property to the MBTA in 1977.  A major renovation and expansion (which added two wings extending from each side of the head house) was completed in 1989.
    Style: Neoclassical
    

88. Houghton Memorial Chapel

    Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
    Built: 1897-1899
    Architects: Heins & LaFarge
    History: The interior includes stained glass windows by John LaFarge and Louis Comfort Tiffany and a bas relief by Daniel Chester French.  Renovations by KieranTimberlake from 2006-2008 included restoration of the upper Chapel and the creation of a Multifaith Center on the first level.
    Style: Gothic Revival
    

89. Bellevue Hotel

    21 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1899
    Architects: Peabody & Stearns
    HIstory: The property originally served as a luxury hotel.  It had the first elevator in Boston designed to carry people. In 1925, Putnam & Cox enlarged the building with an addition on Bowdoin Street. In 1983, developers converted the building into the Bellevue Apartments.
    Styles: Beaux-Arts, Classical Revival
    

90. Symphony Hall

    301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA
    Built: 1899-1900
    Architects: McKim, Mead & White
    History: The architects hired Harvard physics professor Wallace Clement Sabine as acoustical consultant. Symphony Hall is considered the finest concert hall in the U.S., acoustically, and one of the top three in the world. The original concert stage floor was replaced in 2006, using the same methods and materials as the original. The leather seats are original.  The hall features 16 copies of Roman and Greek statues executed by  P. P. Caproni and Brother.
    Style: Renaissance Revival
    

91. Horticultural Hall

    300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA
    Built: 1901
    Architect: Wheelwright & Haven
    History: The building’s original occupant was the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The building was renovated in 1984, and sold to the neighboring Christian Science Church in 1992.  More recent occupants include The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston magazine, 829 Studios, and Small Army. The New England Conservatory of Music had a performance space at the site.  Northeastern University purchased the property in 2020.
    Style: English Renaissance Revival

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93. Burrage Mansion (The Burrage House)

    314 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
    Built: 1901
    Architect: Charles Brigham
    History: The house was built for Albert C. Burrage and remained in his family until 1947, when it was sold and converted into doctor’s offices. After a 1959 renovation, the Boston Evening Clinic occupied the site. The Boston Back Bay Board & Care Ltd. Partnership purchased the property in 1990 and renovated it to be used as a nursing home and elder care facility. A renovation in 2002-2003 converted the building into luxury condominiums. The inspiration for Brigham’s design was Chenonceaux, an early 16th Century chateau in the Loire Valley of France. Football star Tom Brady lived here for a time. selling his condominium in 2008.
    Style: Chateau; Renaissance Revival
    

94. Fariborz Maseeh Hall (former Riverbank Court Hotel)

    MIT, 305 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
    Built: 1901
    Architect: H.B. Ball (attrib.)
    History: The building originally housed the Riverbank Court Hotel. In 1937, MIT purchased the property and converted it to a student dormitory eventually named Ashdown House.  It was renovated in 2011 by Miller Dyer Spears to once again become a student residence.
    Style: Tudor
    

95. Board of Trade Building

    1 India Street, Boston, MA
    Built: 1901
    Architect: Winslow & Bigelow
    History: Originally designed for the offices of businesses involved in international trade, the property was converted in 1996 by Brian Healy Architects for residential use with commercial spaces on the first three levels.
    Style: Neoclassical

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97. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    25 Evans Way, Boston, MA
    Built: 1896-1902
    Architect: Willard T. Sears
    History: Inspired by Venetian architecture, the building was designed as a museum for the collection of Isabella Stewart Gardner.  A new wing/extension in modern style by Renzo Piano opened in 2012 (see separate entry).
    Style: Venetian Gothic Revival
    

98. Needham Town Hall

    1471 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA
    Built: 1902
    Architects: Winslow & Bigelow
    History: The second floor meeting hall was partitioned in the 1950s but restored during a major restoration project in 2008-2011, based on designs by McGinley, Kalsow and Associates.
    Style: Georgian Revival
    

99. 10 Milk Street

    Boston, MA
    Built: 1903
    Architect: A.H. Bowditch
    History: CBI Consulting Inc. oversaw a restoration project in 2017-2018.
    Style: Beaux-Arts
    

100. XV Beacon Hotel

     15 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1903
     Architect: William Gibbons Preston
     History: The Boston Transit Commission occupied the building until 1916. The City of Boston then took over the building by eminent domain and it became the home of the Boston School Committee until 1998 when it was purchased by hoteliers.  The building was renovated in 1998-1999 to become a luxury hotel.
     Styles: Beaux-Arts; Neoclassical
     

101. 211 Massachusetts Avenue

     Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1904
     Architect: C.H. McClare
     History: Additions and new chimney by J.J. Eames in 1914. Site of the first high-speed real-time electronic digital computing from the Whirlwind Computer, which operated there from 1948-1959. Other technology firsts that occurred in the building: first magnetic-core memory (RAM); first computer keyboard and monitor; first computer graphics program; and first modem. Renovated by Single Speed Design in 2015.  Now owned by Novartis.
     Style: Tudor Revival (?)
     
     

102. St. John the Evangelist Church

     2254 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1904-1905
     Architects: Maginnis, Walsh & Sullivan
     History: The church was modeled after the 12th century Lombardo-Romanesque basilica and is very similar to Basilica di San Zeno in Verona, Italy.  The church was significantly rebuilt after a December, 1956 fire.  A significant interior renovation took place from 1996-1998 to conform with the new Roman Catholic liturgy.
     Style: Romanesque Revival
     

103. The Berkeley Building

     414-426 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1905
     Architect: Stephen Codman & Constant-Désiré Despradelle
     History: Despradelle was a professor of design at MIT, which was at that time located near the site. Some changes to the windows occurred in 1970-1971. The site was renovated by Finegold Alexander in 1989; the renovation restored the Art Nouveau storefronts.
     Style: Beaux-Arts
     

104. Mother Church Extension

     Christian Science Center, Boston, MA
     Built: 1906
     Architect: Charles Brigham & Solon Beman
     History: The extension was built after it became clear that the Original Mother Church was too small to accommodate church services. A monumental, semicircular entrance portico in the Neoclassical-style was attached to the pedimented pavilion on the west elevation in 1975.
     Style: Byzantine Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Classical Revival
     

105. North Hall (former Boston Normal School and Girls’ Latin School)

     14 Tetlow Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1907
     History: The building was built to house the Girls’ Latin School and the Boston Normal School. Girls’ Latin School moved to Dorchester in 1955.  The building is now part of the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and houses the Pozen Center.
     Style: Romanesque Revival (?)
     

106. Beauport (Sleeper-McCann House)

     75 Eastern Point Blvd., Gloucester, MA
     Built: 1907 (but expanded 1908-1934)
     Architects: Halfdan M. Hanson & Henry Davis Sleeper
     History: The building began as a small Arts & Crafts cottage when Henry Davis Sleeper purchased it in 1907 but was expanded over time to 40 rooms between 1908 and Sleeper’s death in 1934. Sleeper was an interior designer.  The building is now a house museum.
     Styles: Arts and Crafts, Gothic, Medieval, Early Colonial
     

107. Fire Station 1

     140 Washington Street, Brookline, MA
     Built: 1907-1908
     Architects: Freeman, Funk & Wilcox
     History: The fire station was remodeled in 1972.
     Style: Renaissance Revival
     

108. Margaret Clapp Library

     Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
     Built: 1909-1910
     Architects: Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge
     History: In 1915, a wing. designed by Henry D. Whitfield, was added to the left-hand side of the building. The library underwent renovations in 1956-1959.  At that time, a new addition, designed by Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott, was placed at the rear of the library. In 1973-1975, a major addition was built onto the right-hand side of the structure.
     Style: Renaissance Revival
     

109. Harvard Lampoon Building

     44 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1909
     Architect: Edward M. Wheelwright, architect
     History: Wheelwright was a founding member of the Harvard Lampoon. His  design was inspired in part by an old church in Jamestown, Virginia and by the Flemish Renaissance details of Auburn Street buildings in its vicinity. The building features a copper ibis, symbol of the Lampoon, mounted on the top of the dome.
     Style: Mock Flemish
     

110. Museum of Fine Arts

     465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
     Built: 1909
     Architect: Guy Lowell
     History: A new wing along the Fens opened in 1915. From 1916 through 1925, John Singer Sargent painted the frescoes that adorn the rotunda and the associated colonnades.The Decorative Arts Wing was built in 1928, and expanded in 1968. An addition designed by Hugh Stubbins and Associates was built in 1966–1970, and another expansion by The Architects Collaborative opened in 1976. The West Wing, now the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, was designed by I. M. Pei and opened in 1981. The Tenshin-En Japanese Garden designed by Kinsaku Nakane opened in 1988, and the Norma Jean Calderwood Garden Court and Terrace opened in 1997. The Art of the Americas Wing and adjoining Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard opened in 2006.  They were designed by Foster and Partners, under the directorship of Thomas T. Difraia and CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares Architects. At around the same time, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol redesigned the Huntington Avenue and Fenway entrances, gardens, access roads, and interior courtyards.  The Japanese Garden was restored in 2015.
     Style: Neoclassical
     

111. 376 Bolyston Street

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1910
     Architect: Unknown
     Style: Italianate?  Renaissance Revival?
     

112. Boston Safe Deposit and Trust

     86-102 Franklin Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1908-1911
     Architects: Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge
     History: Major renovations took place in 1998. The building was home to the Boston Stock Exchange from 1999 to 2007, when it was absorbed by NASDAQ.
     Style: Romanesque Revival; Italianate Palazzo
     

113. YMCA Administration Building

     316 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
     Built: 1911
     Architects: Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge
     History:  Renovations to the interior beginning in 2012 created a modern community center.
     Style: Neoclassical; Renaissance Revival
     

114. Burnham Building (formerly Filene’s)

     426 Washington Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1911-1912
     Architect: Daniel Burnham
     History:  This was the last major project by Daniel Burnham and his only work in Boston. The building was significantly expanded in 1929. When Filene’s closed in 2006, a major renovation took place, gutting the interior for a project by Vornado and Gale International that eventually failed.  A second project by Millennium Partners took over, conducted further renovations (including restoration of many original architectural details).  The building reopened with Primark and Roche Brothers as main tenants, in 2015.
     Style: Beaux-Arts
     
     

115. Copley Plaza Hotel (Fairmount Copley Plaza)

     138 St. James Avenue, Boston, MA
     Built: 1912
     Architect: Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
     Style: Beaux-Arts
     

116. City Hall Annex

     Built: 1912
     Architect: Edward T.P. Graham
     History: The annex was built on the site of the former Suffolk County Courthouse.  Graham saved the eight Doric columns from the demolished Courthouse and reused them – combining them into four much taller columns and changing the capitals to Corinthian.  The building was the home of the Boston School Department from 1969 until c. 2015, when it moved to the Bruce Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury.
     Style: Neoclassical.
     

117. Boston Custom House Tower

     3 McKinley Square, Boston, MA
     Built: 1913-1915
     Architects: Peabody & Stearns
     History: Although Boston had a 125-feet height restriction at the time, the Custom House was federally owned and exempt from the restriction. The 496-foot tall tower was the tallest building in Boston until the Prudential Building was erected in 1964.  U.S. customs officials moved to the Thomas P. O’Neill federal building in 1986.  The City of Boston bought the property in 1987.  It was unoccupied until 1995-1998, when Beal Companies and the Marriott corporation redeveloped the site as a timeshare resort, using Jung Brannen Associates as architects.  Pressley Associates, Inc. redesigned the front plaza in 1999,
     Style: Greek Revival
     

118. Maclaurin Buildings & Great Dome

     MIT, 77 Mass. Ave, Buildings 3, 4 & 10, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1913-1916
     Architect: William Welles Bosworth
     HIstory: The buildings form a U around Killian Court and are an early example of steel reinforced, concrete construction. MIT president Richard Maclaurin had the names of 115 scientists, engineers, inventors, and philosophers engraved on the ten faces of the square pavilions that capped each of the buildings.  The 27-foot oculus in the center of the Great Dome was covered over during World War II and was only briefly exposed in the 1950s before being covered again. Extensive renovations of the dome beginning in 2009 included the refurbishing and reopening of the oculus in 2013.
     Style: Neoclassical
     
     

119. 496 Massachusetts Avenue

     Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1916
     Architect: Walter Littlefield
     Style: Italianate (?)
     

120. John Hancock Building (Stephen L. Brown Building)

     197 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1922
     Architects: Parker, Thomas & Rice
     History: Also known as the Clarendon Building, it is one of at least five Boston buildings called the John Hancock Building, three of which are extant.
     Style: Beaux-Arts
     

121. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England

     514 Parker Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1923
     Architect: Hachadoor Demoorjian
     History: Design work of the interior included consultation with architect Ralph Adams Cram.
     Style: Byzantine; Classical Revival
     
     

122. Boston Five Cents Savings Bank

     24-30 School Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1926
     Architect: Parker, Thomas & Rice
     History: In 1972, an addition was built to designs by Kallmann and McKinnell in the Brutalist style.  In recent times, the building has served as a Borders Bookstore and is currently a Walgreens.
     Style: Romanesque Revival
     

123. St. Charles Borromeo Church

     51 Hall Street, Waltham, MA
     Built: 1915-1927
     Architect: James F. Monaghan
     HIstory: Construction of this building began in 1915, but was delayed by funding concerns, and was not restarted until 1922. A fire gutted the interior of the nearly finished building in 1927, after which it was refurbished.
     Style: Italian Renaissance Revival
     

124. Omni Parker House (Parker House Hotel)

     60 School Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1927
     Architect: G. Henri Desmond (Desmond & Lord Architects)
     History: The Parker House is the oldest continuously operating hotel in the U.S.  It is the origin of Boston cream pie, Parker House rolls and the term “scrod.” The 1927 building (with 800 guest rooms) replaced an original 1855 structure designed by William Washburn (and several later additions). The hotel was near bankruptcy in 1968 when Dunfey Hotels purchased it and revived and renovated the property into 551 rooms and suites. After a major renovation in 2008, the hotel now has 530 guest rooms and 21 suites.
     Style: Italianate
     

125. The Great House, Castle Hill, Crane Estate

     Ipswich, MA
     Built: 1926-1928
     Architect: David Adler
     History: The property was purchased by Richard Teller Crane in 1910. Atop Castle Hill, Crane built an Italian Renaissance-style villa, based on designs by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. The landscape was designed by the Olmstead Brothers. Crane’s wife Florence disliked the house and in 1924, it was torn down. The new mansion by David Adler of Chicago built from 1926-1928 includes a Stuart style facade. The rear aspect of the house is modeled on Ham House in London.  Upon Florence’s death in 1949, the mansion passed to the Trustees of Reservations.
     Style: Tudor Revival; Stuart
     

126. The Batterymarch Building

     54-66 Batterymarch Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1928
     Architect: Harold Field Kellogg
     History: Also called the Public Service Building, it was the first Art Deco skyscraper in Boston. Kellogg used bricks of 30 different colors to produce the illusion of greater height. The building was substantially rehabilitated in 1984-1985 by Jung Brannen Associates, Inc., and Thompson & Lichtner Company Inc.  When  the Wyndham Hotels bought the property in 1999, they did extensive renovations and restored many of the exterior and interior Art Deco details.
     Style: Art Deco
     

127. Boston Opera House

     539 Washington Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1928
     Architect: Thomas White Lamb
     History: It was originally built as the B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre, a movie house. It was rededicated in 1980 as a home for the Opera Company of Boston, which performed there until the opera company closed down in 1990 due to financial problems. The theater reopened in 2004 after a major restoration. It has served as the home of the Boston Ballet since 2009, and also hosts touring Broadway shows and Boston Uprising.
     Style: French; Italian
     

128. The Landmark Center

     401 Park Dr., Boston, MA
     Built: 1928 or 1929
     Architect: George C. Nimmons
     History: The building served as a Sears & Roebuck warehouse and distribution center from 1928 to 1988.  The building reopened in 2000 after being purchased by The Abbey Group and renovated by Bruner/Cott & Associates.  The property is currently undergoing redevelopment into a life sciences building with a grocery store on the main level.
     Style: Art Deco
     

129. Hammond Castle

     80 Hesperus Avenue, Gloucester, MA
     Built: 1926-1929
     Architects: Allen & Collens
     History: The home was built by scientist and inventor  John Hays Hammond, Jr.  It consists of several elements: (1) Cloister; (2) Bell Tower; (3) Research Laboratory; (4) replica of 13th Century castle; (5) replica of 13th Century French Gothic Cathedral; (6) replica of 15th Century French Chateau; (7) courtyard with facades of French medieval village.  The home was designed to house Hammond’s collection of artworks from Classical antiquity through the 16th Century. It is now a museum.
     Styles: Medieval Tower House; Gothic Cathedral; French Chateau
     

130. State Street Trust Building

     75 Federal Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1929
     Architect: Thomas M. James
     History: The building is wrapped with bronze panel relief sculptures depicting human accomplishments in finance, architecture and sculpture, agriculture, power, and transportation as well as the trades which are most significant to the science and art of building: the carpenter, the stonemason and the blacksmith. The building is connected with 101 Federal Street, which was completed in 1988 to designs by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates P.C. The building was renovated in 1985, and at some later time received extensive renovations by Gensler.
     Style: Art Deco

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132. New England Telephone & Telegraph Building

     6 Bowdoin Square, Boston, MA
     Built: 1930
     Architects: Densmore, LeClear & Robb
     Style: Art Deco
     

133. Addison Gallery of American Art

     Andover, MA
     Built: 1929-1931
     Architect: Charles A. Platt
     History: From 2008-2010 the Gallery closed for a renovation and expansion project, to designs by Centerbrook Architects and Planners. The project included the restoration of the Charles Platt building and added the new Sidney R. Knafel Wing. A new glass roof was added in 2011.
     Style: Classical Revival
     

134. Green Hall

     Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
     Built: 1931
     Architects: Frank Day & Charles Klauder
     History: Named in honor of Hetty Howland Robinson Green, the building was partially funded by donations from her children. The 182-foot-tall Galen Stone Tower houses a 30-bell carillon.
     Style: Collegiate Gothic Revival
     

135. Paramount Theater

     559 Washington Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1932
     Architect: Arthur Bowditch
     History: The building opened as a movie theater in 1932. It closed in 1976. Most of the Art Deco interior decoration was destroyed in the 1980s during the removal of asbestos.In 2002, Millennium Partners, which was developing the adjacent Ritz-Carlton Towers, agreed to restore the Paramount’s facade, marquee, and vertical sign. Emerson College renovated the site beginning in 2005, to designs by Elkus Manfredi Architects. In 2010, the theater reopened as a performing arts space.
     Style: Art Deco

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137. Cochran Chapel
     

     2 Chapel Avenue, Andover, MA
     Built: 1930-1932
     Architect: Charles A. Platt
     History: The building is part of the campus of Phillips Academy. Originally named Academy Chapel, it was renamed in honor of trustee donor Thomas Cochran’s parents. Numerous minor renovations were completed in the 1970s and 1980s. “The original stationary pulpit was removed in 1990 to accommodate choral and theatrical uses of the building. In 1999 a small organ balcony at the back of the sanctuary was expanded by Ann Beha & Associates to make space for the entire student body and faculty to assemble for weekly all-school meetings.” Roberts, Paige. “Cochran Chapel, 1930-1932, at Phillips Academy.” Clio: Your Guide to History.
     Style: Georgian Revival
     

138. John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse

     5 Post Office Square, Boston, MA
     Built: 1931-1933
     Architects: Cram & Ferguson; Franklin M. Hull; James Alfonso Wetmore
     History: Formerly known as the Federal Building, it was rededicated in 1972 in honor of former House Speaker John W. McCormack. The Postal Service relocated to the South Boston Postal Annexi in 1980.  Several federal agencies moved to the Tip O’Neill building 9n 1986. The courts and Department of Justice moved to the Moakley federal courthouse in 1999. An extensive building renovation was completed in 2009. This project included a roof replacement, new energy efficient windows, mechanical and electrical systems upgrades, new exterior insulation, a green roof, and office space modernization.
     Style: Art Deco; Moderne
     

139. First Parish Church 

     50 Church Street, Waltham, MA
     Built: 1933
     Architects: Allen & Collens
     History: This church is built on the foundations of the previous 1838 church on the site, which was destroyed by fire in 1932. It is home to a Unitarian Universalist congregation.
     Style: Classical Revival
     

140. Gropius House
     

     68 Baker Bridge, Road, Lincoln, MA
     Built: 1937
     Architect: Walter Gropius
     History: Bauhaus co-founder Walter Gropius designed the house for himself and his wife Ise and daughter after they came to America in the 1930s. (Helen Storrow provided the funding for the purchase of the property and building of the house.)  He died in 1969.  In 1974, Ise donated the property to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England), though she lived there for the rest of her life. In 1984, a year after Ise’s death, the home became a museum.  It is restored to its condition in the late 1960s.
     Style: Modernism; Bauhaus; New England
     
     

141. Suffolk County Courthouse

     1 Pemberton Square, Boston, MA
     Built: 1936-1939
     Architects: Desmond & Lord
     History: It is known as the new Suffolk County Courthouse to distinguish it from the John Adams Courthouse next door.  The two buildings are connected on several levels. Drummey Rosane Anderson Inc. designed a renovation that was completed in 2006.
     Style: Art Deco
     

142. Breuer House I

     5 Woods End Road, Lincoln, MA
     Built: 1938-1939
     Architects: Marcel Breuer & Walter Gropius
     History: The home was built to designs by Breuer and Gropius after Breuer joined Gropius on the faculty of Harvard University. (Helen Storrow provided the funding for the purchase of the property and building of the house.)  Breuer moved to New York City in 1946.
     Style: Modern; Bauhaus
     

143. Ford House

     10 Woods End Road, Lincoln, MA
     Built: 1938-1939
     Architects: Marcel Breuer & Walter Gropius
     History: The house was built for Harvard sociology professor James Ford and his wife Katherine Morrow Ford, a contributor to House and Garden magazine. The two authored the book Modern House in America (1940). Helen Storrow provided the funding for the purchase of the property and building of the house. 
     Style: Modern; Bauhaus
     

144. Bogner House

     9 Woods End Road, Lincoln, MA
     Built: 1939
     Architect: Walter Bogner
     History: The house was designed by Harvard professor and architect Walter Bogner for his family. (Helen Storrow provided the funding for the purchase of the property and building of the house.) 
     Style: Modern; Bauhaus
     

145. 50 Post Office Square (former New England Telephone & Telegraph Building)

     185 Franklin Street (110 High Street), Boston, MA
     Built: 1947
     Architect: Alexander Hoyle (Cram & Ferguson)
     History:  A substantial addition was constructed in 1966. A panoramic 1951 lobby mural by Dean Cornwell – Telephone Men and Women at Work – was removed during a 2009 renovation and sold.  In 2013, Elkus Manfredi Architects reconfigured the ground floor to add retail and a contemporary lobby. Further work by Elkus Manfredi in 2018 (with new owner LaSalle) created the glass lobby and entrance at 110 High Street.
     Style: Art Deco
     

146. Baker House
     

     MIT, 362 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 
     Built: 1947-1948
     Architect: Alvar Aalto
     History: A dormitory for MIT students, Baker House opened in 1949. It is one of only three extant buildings by Alvar Aalto in the U.S.  A renovation project to designs by Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects was completed in 2002.
     Style: Modernism
     
     
     

147. Harvard University Graduate Center
     

     Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
     Built: 1948-1950
     Architects: Walter Gropius & The Architects’ Collaborative
     History: Also known as the Gropius Complex, the center consists of seven or eight buildings (sources differ). The building of modernist buildings by Harvard helped usher in a growing acceptance of the style. A 2004 renovation added modern updates to the complex, including air conditioning and internet access. The buildings are now primarily used as a student center and as a dormitory complex for Harvard Law School.
     Style: Modern; Bauhaus
     
     

148. Kresge Auditorium

     MIT, Building W16, 48 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1953-1955
     Architect: Eero Saarinen
     History: The building was named for its principal funder, Sebastian S. Kresge, founder of S. S. Kresge Stores. The concert hall features a Holtkamp acoustic pipe organ which was used in the opening ceremonies as part of a Canticle of Freedom, piece commissioned by MIT from Aaron Copland.  The dome was originally supported at only the three corners and was covered with orastone,  The orastone was replaced by lead sheets, but after cracks were found in 1980, the dome was covered in copper and redesigned so that the walls bear some of the roof load. An extensive renovation to designs by EYP took place in 2013-2015.
     Style: Modernism
     

149. MIT Chapel

     MIT, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1956
     Architect: Eero Saarinen
     History: The altar features a full-height metal sculpture by Harry Bertoia. The spire and bell tower by Theodore Roszak were added in 1956. An extensive renovation to designs by EYP took place in 2014-2015.
     Style: Modernism
     

150. Jewett Arts Center

     Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
     Built: 1958
     Architect: Paul Rudolph
     History: The Center consists of the Mary Cooper Jewett Art Wing and the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Music Wing. A 1976-1977 renovation followed plans by David R. Johnson, who was a member of Paul Rudolph’s original team in 1958. In 1993, modifications were made to connect the building with the new Davis Museum, designed by Rafael Moneo
     with Payette Architects.
     Style: Modernism with Collegiate Gothic influences
     

151. South End Station, Engine 22, Boston Fire Department

     700 Tremont St., Boston, MA
     Built: 1960
     Architects: Campbell and Aldrich
     Style: Modernism
     

152. Leverett Library

     Harvard University, 42 DeWolfe Street, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1960
     Architects: Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott
     History: The library received an award in 1964 from the AIA for innovative design. The building was renovated in 2012 by KieranTimberlake.
     Style: Modernism
     

153. Rose Art Museum

     Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
     Built: 1961
     Architects: Harrison & Abramovitz
     HIstory: Harrison & Abramovitz designed an addition that opened in 1974. The Lois Foster Wing was added in 2001 by the Gund Partnership.  In 2004, renovations were conducted according to designs by Shigeru Ban Architects. Bruner/Cott was involved in another series of renovations completed in 2011.
     Style: Modernism
     

154. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
     

     Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1961-1963
     Architect: Le Corbusier with Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente
     History: This is the only Le Corbusier-designed building on the North American continent; it is intended to exemplify his Five Points of Architecture. The on-site preparation of the construction plans was handled by the office of Josep Lluís Sert, then dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, who had formerly worked for Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier was never able to see the completed building because of his failing health; he died in 1965. 
     Style: Modernism
     
     

155. Prudential Tower

     800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1960-1964
     Architect: Charles Luckman & Associates
     History: From 1964 to 1976, the Pru (as it is known) was the tallest building in Boston and New England. A redevelopment in the 1990s created an indoor mall at the base of the building known as the Prudential Center. The Skywalk and Top of the Hub restaurant closed in March 2020 and are not due to reopen.
     Style: International Style
     

156. Sherrill Building

     89 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1965
     Architects: Campbell & Aldrich
     History: Lesley University co-owned the building with the Episcopal Divinity School from 2008 to 2018, when Lesley became sole owner.  The building was renovated according to designs by Prellwitz Chilinski Associates.
     Style: Brutalism
     

157. Spingold Theater Center

     Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
     Built: 1965
     Architect: Harrison & Abramovitz
     History: The facility includes three different performance venues: a 750-seat main theater, the 175-seat Laurie Theater and the 100-seat Merrick Theater
     Style: Modernism
     

158. John F. Kennedy Federal Building
     

     15 Sudbury Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1963-1966
     Architects: Walter Gropius & The Architects Collaborative with Samuel Glaser
     History: The building consists of twin 26-story high-rise towers and a four-story low-rise. It houses numerous federal agencies and the offices of both Massachusetts senators.
     Style: Modernism
     

159. State Street Bank Building

     225 Franklin Street, Boston
     Built: 1964-1966
     Architects: Pearl Street Associates (F. A. Stahl Associates, Hugh Stubbins and Associates, Le Messurier and Associates)
     History: The lighted State Street Bank sign was a prominent landmark – such signs were banned in Boston in 1966. State Street no longer owned the building as of 1985, but continued to occupy it as a tenant for a period of time. A significant interior renovation took place in 1994-1997, and later renovations have occurred.
     Style: Modernism
     

160. Boston Architectural College

     320 Newbury Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1964-1966
     Architects: Ashley, Myer & Associates
     History: The building has served as the main campus of the Boston Architectural College since it was built. In 1979, Richard Haas painted a 50-foot architectural trompe l’oeil mural on the building’s west side.
     Style: Brutalism
     

161. Boston City Hall

     1 City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA
     Built: 1963-1966
     Architects: Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles and Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty
     History: The creation of Government Center (including the JFK Federal Building, City Hall, and Center Plaza) destroyed the Scollay Square neighborhood of Boston, a controversial example of “urban renewal.”  City Hall has been praised by architects as a paragon of the Brutalist style, but it also has many critics.  The large, uninviting plaza has been a particular target of criticism and has undergone a number of renovations over the years, including one ongoing in 2022.
     Style: Brutalism
     

162. Center Plaza

     1, 2 and 3 Center Plaza, Boston, MA
     Built: 1965-1969
     Architect: Welton Becket & Associates
     History: As of 2022, the building is undergoing a significant interior renovation by CBT Architects.
     Style: Brutalism
     

163. Design Research Building (part of Architects’ Corner)

     48 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1966-1969
     Architect: Benjamin Thompson
     History: The building was the headquarters for Thompsons home furnishings company, Design Research. Crate & Barrel took over the building in 1979, but closed in about 2008.  The building has been home to an Anthropologie store since 2010.
     Style: Cambridge, MA
     

164. New England Aquarium

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1969
     Architect: Peter Chermayeff (Cambridge Seven Associates)
     History: A huge forty-foot-diameter Giant Ocean Tank at the center of the aquarium forms the core of a spiral ramp that winds through the four-story space. The aquarium was expanded in 1973 and 1979. From 1996-1998, a new west wing was built to designs Schwartz/Silver Architects. The IMAX theater was added in 2001. In 2013, the The New Aquarium Experience opened, featuring a renovated Giant Ocean Tank and a new Blue Planet Action Center.
     Style: Modernism; Post-Modernism
     

165. One Boston Place

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1967-1970
     Architect: Pietro Belluschi (Emery Roth & Sons)
     History:  This is a 41-story office tower.
     Style: Structural Expressionism

166. Charles F. Hurley & Erich Lindemann Buildings

     19 & 25 Staniford Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1966-1971
     Architects: Paul Rudolph; Desmond & Lord; Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott
     HIstory: The buildings house various state agencies. When the Brooke Courthouse was built in 1999, the plaza was updated and several accessibility features added. The 1971 buildings have not received any substantial renovations. In 2013, many of the exterior staircases, terraces, and niches were fenced off because the side walls were not tall enough to meet modern safety codes. Due to the costs of renovation, some have suggested demolition of the Hurley building, which has met with some opposition.
     Style: Brutalism
     

167. 44 Brattle Street (part of Architects’ Corner)

     Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1970-1971
     Architect: Sert, Jackson & Gourley
     History: The building served as the architectural offices of Josep Lluís Sert, then dean of the Graduate School of Design.
     Style: Modernism
     

168. Harbor Towers

     East India Row, Boston, MA
     Built: 1971
     Architect: Henry N. Cobb (I. M. Pei & Partners)
     History: The Harbor Towers were originally rental units, but converted to condominiums in the early 1980s. The apartments are organized in a pinwheel fashion around a central core. The stainless steel sculpture at the base of the buildings is David von Schlegell’s Untitled Landscape (1964).
     Style: Brutalism
     

169. Gund Hall

     Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1968-1972
     Architect: John Andrews (Anderson, Baldwin)
     History: The building was built to house Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. (Architect Andrews was a graduate of the school.) It is named for philanthropist George Gund II (1888-1966), a banker, business executive, and real estate investor.  The central studio space, also known as the Trays, extends through five levels under a stepped, clear-span roof. A renovation and expansion project by Herzog & de Meuron and Beyer Blinder Belle began in 2018.
     Style: Brutalism
     
     

170. One Beacon Street

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1971-1972
     Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
     History:  This office building was significantly refurbished in 1991 by G.D. Harley Associates. For 17 years, Hoffmann Architects provided rehabilitation services. In July 2014 MetLife and Norges Bank Investment Management announced that they paid approximately $561 million for the building.  Wessling Architects renovated the plaza in 2017-2018.
     Style: International Style
     

171. Boston Public Library Extension (Johnson Building)

     Boylston Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1972
     Architect: Philip Johnson
     History: A three-year renovation of the building to designs by William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. was completed in 2016.
     Style: Late Modernism
     
     

172. Colonnade Building

     Christian Science Center, 101 Belvedere St., Boston, MA
     Built: 1968-1972
     Architect: Araldo Cossutta (I.M. Pei & Associates; Cossutta & Ponte)
     History: Cossutta’s master plan includes the Colonnade Building, Reflection Hall (formerly the Sunday School building), and the high-rise Administration Building. These buildings and the older Mother Church and Mother Church Extension are connected by a large plaza with a reflecting pool and children’s fountain.  Landscape architects Sasaki contributed to the project. A major renovation and update of the plaza, the reflecting pool, and some of the associated buildings took place in 2017-2022 to designs by Robert Herlinger (architect) and John Amodeo (landscape architect).
     Style: Modernism; Brutalism
     

173. Reflection Hall

     Christian Science Center, 235 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
     Built: 1968-1972
     Architect: Araldo Cossutta (I.M. Pei & Partners; Cossutta & Ponte)
     History: This building was originally known as the Sunday School building.
     Style: Modernism; Brutalism
     

174. Administration Building

     Christian Science Center, 177 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
     Built: 1968-1972
     Architect: Araldo Cossutta (I.M. Pei & Associates; Cossutta & Ponte)
     History: The building is now leased out as office space.
     Style: Modernism; Brutalism
     

175. Science Center

     Harvard University, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1970-1972
     Architect: Josep Lluís Sert
     History: Architect Sert was dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A renovation project by Leers Weinzapfel Associates from 2001 to 2004 created space for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and expanded other facilities.  Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects designed a 2014 renovation.
     Style: Modernism
     

176. 175 Federal Street

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1976
     Architects: The Architects Collaborative
     History:  As of 2022, a major renovation that would create a glass-enclosed retail and lobby space around the lower portion of the building (design by CBT Architects) is under review by the City of Boston.
     Style: Corporate Modernism
     

177. 200 Clarendon (formerly John Hancock Tower)

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1968-1976
     Architects: Henry N. Cobb (I. M. Pei & Partners)
     History: The all-glass tower is New England’s tallest building at 790 feet. After oscillations and thermal stresses caused the large panes of glass to fall out, crashing to the street below, I.M. Pei & Partners had to replace all 10,344 window panes by single-paned, heat-treated panels.  The swaying of the tower in wind caused some occupants to experience seasickness – the problem was solved by the installation of a tuned mass damper on the 58th floor.  The observation deck was closed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  The name of the building changed to 200 Clarendon in 2015 after John Hancock Financial moved out.
     Style: Minimalism
     

178. Tower Building

     621 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
     Built: 1976
     Architect: C.E. Maguire, Inc.
     History: The building is part of the campus of the Massachusetts College of Art & Design. The Morton R. Godine Library occupies the top two floors of the 13-story building, and the President’s Office is on the 11th floor. There is an auditorium in the low-rise section of the building.
     Style: Modernism
     

179. Federal Reserve Bank Building

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1969-1977
     Architect: Hugh Stubbins (Stubbins and Associates)
     History: The building Is sometimes referred to as “the washboard” building or “Venetian Blind” building. In 2003, the New England Economic Adventure opened in the building. Designed by Jeff Kennedy Associates, the Adventure features interactive exhibits and activities that use New England’s history to teach about economic growth and rising living standards.
     Style: Modernism
     

180. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

     Columbia Point, Boston, MA
     Built: 1977-1979
     Architect: I.M. Pei
     History: Although John F. Kennedy wanted the library to be in Cambridge, near Harvard, neighborhood opposition led to the choice of the Columbia Point site in Dorchester.  The project elevated I.M. Pei, then relatively unknown, to the status of a major architect. On April 15, 2013 – the same day as the Boston Marathon bombing – a fire occurred in the library, although the two incidents were apparently unrelated.
     Style: Modernism
     
     
     

181. Academy of Arts & Sciences

     136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 1977-1981
     Architect: Kallmann McKinnell & Wood.
     History: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, and other Founding Fathers. Its main focus since the mid-20th Century has been on independent research. According to the Academy’s website, the building “incorporates many metaphors, borrowing elements from ancient Greek cities, Renaissance Tuscan villas, and the twentieth-century American and British Arts and Crafts style.” According to Alex Krieger, author of The Architecture of Kallman McKinnell & Wood, “[a] studious observer may find traces of Victorian country homes, the English Arts and Crafts movement, Greene and Greene, the Viennese Secessionists and Frank Lloyd Wright.”
     Styles: Modern Neo-Richardsonian
     

182. Thomas P. O’Neill Federal Building

     10 Causeway Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1986
     Architect: Unknown
     History: The building houses the New England regional offices of numerous federal agencies, such as the Social Security Administration, the Peace Corps, and the Boston Passport Agency.
     Style: Modernism
     

183. Rowes Wharf

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1987
     Architect: Adrian Smith (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill)
     History: The building complex houses the Boston Harbor Hotel as well as residential condominiums and offices.  There is an observation area, the Forester Rotunda, on the 9th floor.
     Style: Neoclassical (?)
     

184. One and Two International Place
     

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1987 (One); 1992 (Two)
     Architects: Philip Johnson & John Burgee
     History: One International Place has three separate elements: (a) the 600-foot tower; a 27- story building and (c) a 19-story building. It is linked to Two International Place by a central domed court and winter garden.  The domed court, located at the center of the complex, features a rain fountain.
     Style: Postmodernism
     

185. 500 Boylston Street

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1989
     Architects: John Burgee Architects & Philip Johnson
     History: The first six floors are retail and small office space. Above that there is a 19-story office tower with Class A office space.
     Style: Postmodernism
     
     

186. Snell Library

     Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
     Built: 1990
     Architects: The Architects Collaborative
     History: Snell Library was renovated in 2012 with the addition of a 3-D printing studio and the Digital Media Commons on the second floor, as well as new collaborative study spaces. In 2013, new study rooms opened. The same year, the Hub, a space on the ground floor that holds new and popular books and DVDs also opened. 2014 and 2015 renovations included additional seating for the quiet study spaces on the third and fourth floors.
     Style: Modernism
     

187. Genzyme Building (now National Resilience) (formerly Sanofi)

     500 Soldiers’ Field Road, Boston, MA
     Built: 1991-1993
     Architect: ARC (Architectural Resources Cambridge)
     History: Pharmaceutical company Genzyme built the original brick building for its headquarters and manufacturing plant.  In 2010, Genzyme added added a 127,000 square foot glass-walled addition to designs by ARC, working with LAM lighting experts. Genzyme was bought by Sanofi in approximately 2011. Sanofi sold the plant to National Resilience in 2021.
     Style: Neotraditionalist (?)
     

188. Egan Research Center

     Northeastern University, Boston, MA
     Built: 1995-1996
     Architect: Cannon/Boston Inc.
     History: The building includes laboratories as well as on-campus meeting space for faculty and staff-sponsored events. It features state-of-the-art audio-visual capabilities, full kitchen facilities and seminar rooms.  Recently renovated by Timberline Construction.
     Style: Modernism
     
     

189. Edward W. Brooke Courthouse

     24 New Chardon Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1998
     Architects: Kallmann McKinnell & Wood
     History: The building includes the Boston Municipal Court and the court’s administrative offices. A renovation to designs by DRA Architects was completed in 2003.
     Styles: Postmodernism; Classical Revival; Richarardsonian Romanesque
     

190. David J. Sargent Hall 

     110 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 1999
     Architect: Tsoi/Kobus Associates
     History: The building houses Suffolk University’s law school.
     Style: Postmodernism; Classical Revival
     

191. John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse

     Boston, MA
     Built: 1999
     Architects: Henry N. Cobb & Ian Bader (Pei Cobb Freed & Partners)
     History: The building is home to the Federal District Court of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  There are numerous artworks in the building, including the Boston Panels, a commissioned 21-panel work by Ellsworth Kelly. Local artisan John Bension carved the more than 30 inscriptions from various sources on the exterior and interior.  Laurie Olin and Carol R. Johnson designed the landscape.
     Style: Contemporary
     

192. Simmons Hall

     MIT, 229 Vassar St., Cambridge
     Built: 2002
     Architect: Steven Holl Architects (with Perry Dean Rogers & Partners)
     History: The building is a dormitory for MIT students. According to Steven Holl, the design was inspired by a sea sponge; fittingly, students have nicknamed it “The Sponge.”
     Style: Contemporary
     

193. One Western Avenue

     Harvard University, Boston, MA
     Built: 1999-2003
     Architects: Machado and Silvetti Associates, Inc.
     History: The building serves as housing for Harvard University graduate students. It consists of a high-rise, a mid-rise. A three-story bridge connects the two elements, with a courtyard underneath it.
     Style: Contemporary
     

194. Stata Center
     

     MIT, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 2004
     Architect: Frank Gehry
     History: The building contains classrooms, auditoriums, research labs, and academic offices for MIT. The complex also includes an outdoor amphitheater.
     Style: Deconstructivism
     
     

195. Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center

     Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
     Built: 2005
     Architects: Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects
     History: The center houses a dining hall, pub, bookstore, convenience store, post office, a variety of lounges and meeting rooms, and a four-story multi-purpose function hall.
     Style: Deconstructivism; Contemporary
     

196. ICA Boston

     25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA
     Built: 2006
     Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro (with Perry Dean Rogers)
     History:  Located on Fan Pier in South Boston’s seaport district, the building houses Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.  The exterior (including an outdoor amphitheater) connects with the public Harborwalk.
     Style: Contemporary
     

197. Community Rowing Boathouse

     20 Nonantum Road, Boston, MA
     Built: 2008
     Architects: Anmahian Winton Architects
     HIstory: The boathouse is the permanent home of Community Rowing, Inc., a public rowing organization. The facility is composed of two buildings that form a common public space between them. The smaller of the buildings is a glass pavilion that houses the singles shells.
     Style: Contemporary
     

198. Main Branch Extension Building, Cambridge Public Library

     449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 2009
     Architects: William Rawn Associates and Ann Beha Architects
     History: This is the  is the first building in the US to make use of European Double-Skin Curtainwall technology.
     Style: Contemporary
     

199. One Back Bay (The Clarendon)

     135 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 2010
     Architect: Robert A.M. Stern
     History: The building is a 32-story, residential tower with rental apartments and condominiums. The ground floor includes shops and a restaurant.
     Style: Postmodernism
     

200. Tree House Student Residence

     Mass. College of Art & Design, 578 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
     Built: 2012
     Architects: ADD Inc. (now part of Stantec Architects)
     History: The building is a residence hall for students at Massachusetts College of Art & Design. The 20-story tower was inspired by Gustav Klimt’s painting The Tree of Life. The building features a facade with approximately 5,500 smooth metal panels of varying widths and customized colors to represent the painting’s hues.
     Style: Contemporary
     

201. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (new wing)

     25 Evans Way, Boston, MA
     Built: 2012
     Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
     History:  The new wing includes exhibition space, a concert hall, restaurant, and offices.  It connects to the original 1902 Venetian-style palazzo via a glass-enclosed walkway.
     Style: Contemporary
     

202. Harvard Art Museums (new building)

     32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 2006-2014
     Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Payette (Boston)
     History: The new building overlaps with the original mid-1920s Neo-Georgian building (post-1925 additions were removed as part of the renovation/expansion). The expansion project, which increased gallery space by 40%, included covering the courtyard with a glass roof.
     Style: Contemporary
     

203. Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate

     210 Morrissey Boulevard, Columbia Point, Dorchester, Boston, MA
     Built: 2011-2015
     Architect: Rafael Viñoly
     History: The Institute contains a full-scale reproduction of the United States Senate Chamber, a replica of Kennedy’s Washington, D.C. office, and digital exhibits.  The Institute offers a series of public programs and special events on local and national issues.
     Style: Contemporary
     

204. Millennium Tower

     1 Franklin Street, Boston, MA
     Built: 2016
     Architects: Gary Handel & Blake Middleton (Handel Architects)
     History: A 60-story residential building (with some offices and retail), it was built on the site of a portion of the former Filene’s department store. (The original Burnham building was saved – see prior entry.)
     Style: Contemporary
     

205. Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex (ISEC)

     Northeastern University, 805 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA
     Built: 2017
     Architects: Payette
     History: The building is home to four academic programs at Northeastern University: engineering, health sciences, basic sciences, and computer science.
     Style: Contemporary
     

206. Novartis

     181 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
     Built: 2017
     Architects: Maya Lin and Bialosky + Partners Architects
     History: The building is part of the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, which also includes a building by Toshiko Mori. The Maya Lin building consists of a tall, rectilinear portion that contains laboratories, and a lower, curved portion that houses offices, meetings rooms, and an auditorium. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates designed the landscape.  According to the architects, the screen made of light-coloured stone was inspired by “microscopic views of organic coral or bone structure.”
     Style: Contemporary
     

207. Pierce Boston

     188 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA
     Built: 2018
     Architect:
     History: The 30-story mixed-use building includes luxury condo, apartment, and retail components. It is the tallest building in the Fenway/Kenmore neighborhood.  It was the first Boston project by the Miami-based architecture firm Arquitectonica. The building is clad in glass and metal, with paneling in a pattern intended to reflect the masonry buildings around it.
     Style: Contemporary
     

208. One Dalton Street (Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences)

     Boston, MA
     Built: 2015-2019
     Architect: Henry N. Cobb (Pei Cobb Freed & Partners) and Gary Johnson (CambridgeSeven Associates)
     History: The mixed-use building includes a hotel, residences, and retail. It is the third tallest building in Boston, the tallest residential building in New England, and the tallest building constructed in the city since Hancock Place in 1976. The landscape design is by Michael Van Valkenburgh.
     Style: Contemporary