Built between 1899 and 1902 for businessman and art collector Frederick Ayer, the Ayer Mansion is the only surviving residence created by American artist and designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany...
Otis House is the last surviving mansion in Bowdoin Square in Boston's West End neighborhood. In 1796, Charles Bulfinch designed the house for Harrison Gray Otis, a congressman and real estate entrepreneur, and his wife, Sally, who lived and entertained lavishly in this elegantly furnished home...
The Shattuck Visitor Center, a pump house designed by H.H. Richardson in 1882, was originally a key element of Frederick Law Olmsted's sanitary improvement of the Back Bay Fens. Deactivated in the 1970s, the Stony Brook Gatehouse, as it was called, sat idle for many years...
Located on a prominent site at the entry to the hospital’s downtown campus, this freestanding hospital museum is the first of its kind in the United States...
The oldest son of Lemuel Clap, William Clap hired Samuel Everett in 1806 to design a new home on his father's land after taking over the family tannery and building it into the largest tannery in Dorchester. ..
Restoration Resources, Boston’s only architectural salvage company, is regarded as New England’s premier source for salvaged architectural antiques, unique artifacts, vintage furnishings, and unusual gifts...
The Lemuel Clap House is a two-story, wood-frame gambrel-roof building, remodeled to its present appearance by Lemuel Clap in the 1760s...
A National Historic Landmark, it is an excellent example of Classical Revival architecture and a rare surviving example of an early 19th-century public hospital building...
Opened in 2015, Lunder Art Center is the new home of Lesley University’s College of Art and Design. The new facility is home to classrooms, studios, digital and other laboratories...
Somerville's first urban farm grows healthy and affordable produce for low-income families in the community. South Street Farm was designed and built by Groundwork Somerville's youth jobs training and employment program...
The James Blake House is the oldest house in the City of Boston, built in 1661. The history of the house provides a 300-year glimpse into the lives of two of Dorchester’s earliest families, the Blakes and the Claps...
The Church of the Covenant, designed by Richard M. Upjohn, was completed in 1867 and is a prime example of the Gothic Revival style in Boston...
Founded in 1851 as America’s first Y, the YMCA of Greater Boston has strengthened the Greater Boston community through a focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility...
At 15,000 square feet in size, the East Boston Branch features an open floor plan with views of the Boston skyline, dedicated areas for children, teens, and adults, and a multipurpose community space...
Designed by Machado & Silvetti Associates, Inc., the 20,000 square-foot building features slate shingles and blocks, woods, and natural-finished wood windows...
The Hyde Park Branch building dates from 1899. Designed in the Classical Revival Style, it features a marble fireplace, high ceilings, and turn of the century details...
This 21,000 square-foot, environmentally friendly building was designed by William Rawn and Associates and opened in its current location in 2009...
Midway Artist Studios houses 89 live-work studios located in three adjoined brick buildings, which were formerly wool warehouses, built in 1911 and remodeled in 2005 as an adaptive reuse project...
GrandTen Distilling is a small batch distillery housed in a famous South Boston iron foundry built by notable inventor and metallurgist Cyrus Alger...
Fenway Studios, a live-work studio space for Boston artists, is the oldest continuously-functioning building in the country constructed for, and dedicated solely to, artists’ space...
Christ Church was designed by Peter Harrison of Newport, Rhode Island, the colonies’ first well-known architect. The building has been altered since, but the integrity of Harrison’s original design has remained intact, and the building received a Preservation Award in 2011 for its recent renovations...
The 115-foot-tall Dorchester Heights Monument marks the night of March 4, 1776, when under order from General George Washington, Colonel John Thomas and 3,000 militia from Roxbury fortified the Heights of Dorchester, convincing British General William Howe to evacuate Boston two weeks later...
This classic two-story schoolhouse was built in 1831 with a copper-clad entry and cupola added in 1892...
The Nichols House Museum is an 1804 townhouse attributed to Charles Bulfinch, nestled on Boston’s historic Beacon Hill. From 1885 until 1960 it was the home of Rose Standish Nichols, landscape gardener, suffragist, and pacifist...
Built on the site of the former waterfront rail yards, District Hall’s architecture is inspired by the area’s industrial past. The building has two basic volumes: a long, low bar that references box cars that once populated the site, and an angular shell that recalls the materials and forms of the shipping industry’s boats and waterfront warehouses...
The KITCHEN is a 3,200-square-foot, state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen that serves as a teaching, learning, and gathering space at the Boston Public Market...
Eliot Hall, an architecturally notable Greek Revival building, has been an integral part of the life and history of Jamaica Plain since its original construction as a public meeting hall in 1831...
Situated in the heart of Boston’s Fenway neighborhood and part of Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace parks system, the Fenway Victory Gardens span 7 acres tended by a community of almost 500 gardeners, with a diversity of cultures, ages, abilities, and experience...
"Fairsted," Frederick Law Olmsted’s estate, served as both his family’s home and the world's first full-scale professional practice of landscape architecture...
The winning entry of an international competition, the Boston Architectural College’s main Brutalist-style concrete building was chosen from close to 100 designs and models submitted to a jury of distinguished architects and educators in 1963...
