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Mapparium, where visitors
literally walk through the globe
viewing the planet from the
inside. The different colors
represent the world’s political
boundaries of 1935.

r Copley Place
Huntington Ave & Dartmouth St.
Map 3 C3. Tel (617) 262-6600.  Back
Bay/South End, Copley. Open 10am–
8pm Mon–Sat, noon–6pm Sun. 7
Copley Place is a creation of late
20th-century urban develop-
ment, with hotels, an upscale
shopping center, and restaurants.
Offices and luxury apartments
are also part of the development, Bow-fronted, red-brick houses, typical of South End’s Union Park
which rises on land created
above the Massachusetts by 400-ft (121-m) painting y Union Park
Turnpike. Copley Place bears The Battle of Gettysburg by the Tremont & Shawmut Sts. Map 4 D4.
little relation to Copley Square, French artist Paul Philippoteaux.  Back Bay/South End. 7
but the shopping mall was a The painting was removed in
success from the day it opened 1889 and is now displayed at Union Park is the green gem
in 1984 and still ranks as Gettysburg National Military of the South End, built from
Boston’s most luxurious indoor Park. The Cyclorama now 1857 to 1859 when the neigh-
shopping mall. Its stores serves as a performance and borhood was still fashionable.
include the jeweler Tiffany & exhibition space. South End property values
Co. and the status-conscious The Stanford Calderwood crashed in the Panic of 1873,
department store Neiman Pavilion, with a 360-seat and and the entire district, Union
Marcus (see p153). a 200-seat theater, opened in Park included, became tene-
2004 as the first new theater ment housing for immigrants
t Boston Center built in Boston in 75 years. arriving from eastern Europe
The Mills Gallery houses
and the Middle East. The South
for the Arts exhibitions focusing on End remains broadly mixed
emerging contemporary artists, by ethnicity, race, and sexual
539 Tremont St. Map 4 D3. Tel (617)
426-5000.  Back Bay/ South End. with the emphasis on multi- orientation. The handsome
Cyclorama: Open call for hours. Mills media installations and shows town houses along Union Park
Gallery: Open noon–5pm Wed & Sun, with confrontational, often led the South End’s economic
noon–9pm Thu–Sat. Closed public provocative, themes. resurgence in the 1970s, and
hols. & for performances. ^ 7 it has become, once
∑ bcaonline.org again, a coveted
address. A pair of
The centerpiece of a resurgent fountains, an iron
South End, the BCA complex fence, and large shade
includes four stages, an art trees present a truly
gallery, and artists’ studios parklike setting for the
as well as the Boston Ballet beautifully restored
Building, home to the com- brick row houses.
pany’s educational programs, The 19th-century
rehearsal space, and ornamental ironwork
administrative offices. on and around these
The Tremont Estates Building houses is particularly
at the corner of Tremont Street, prized by architecture
an organ factory in the years buffs. Union Park is
after the Civil War, now houses strictly residential,
artists’ studios, rehearsal space, although there are a
and an art gallery. few small shops, and
The largest of the BCA restaur ants which have
buildings is the circular, domed become very pop ular
Cyclorama, which opened in Red-brick façade of the Boston Center for the Arts, site for Saturday and
1884 to exhibit the 50-ft (15-m) of theaters and exhibition spaces Sunday brunch.

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