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Boston Area Map
The colored areas shown on this Boston Area by Area
map (see inside front cover) are
NORTH END
the five main sightseeing areas WATERFRONT
AND THE
of central Boston (exclud ing the North End and
the Waterfront
Farther Afield section). Each is Beacon Hill and OLD BOSTON Pages 68–79
West End
AND THE
Pages 42–55
0 meters 500 500 BEACON FINANCIAL
DISTRICT
0 yards
covered in a full chapter in the HILL AND
WEST END
Boston Area by Area section (pp40–
129). The areas are also highlighted
CHINATOWN
on other maps throughout the BACK BAY AND THEATER DISTRICT
AND THE
book. In Boston at a Glance (pp28– SOUTH END
39), for example, they help you to
locate the most important sights
that no visitor should miss. The the Financial District
Old Boston and
Pages 56–67
maps’ colored borders match the
colored thumb tabs at the top Back Bay and Chinatown and the
South End
Theater District
Pages 80–89
Pages 90–101
corner of each page.
Practical information lists all the
Numbers refer to each sight’s information you need to visit every
position on the area map and sight, including a map reference to
its place in the chapter.
the Street Finder maps (pp186–191).
Detailed Information on each Sight
100  BOST ON AREA B Y AREA BA CK BA Y AND SOUTH END  101
3All the important sights are described
w Prudential Center Mapparium, where visitors
800 Boylston St. Map 3 B3. Tel (617) literally walk through the globe
859-0648.  Prudential, Hynes viewing the planet from the individually. They are listed to follow
Convention Center/ICA. Skywalk: inside. The different colors
Open Mar–Oct: 10am–10pm daily; represent the world’s political
Nov–Feb: 10am–8pm daily. Closed boundaries of 1935.
Thanksgiving, Dec 25. & 7 9 the numbering on the area map at
When it was erected in 1965, r Copley Place
the Prudential Tower was Huntington Ave & Dartmouth St.
the first skyscraper in the Map 3 C3. Tel (617) 369-5000.  Back the start of the section. The key to
Back Bay, rising 52 floors. Office Bay/South End, Copley. Open 10am–
buildings and a shopping 9pm Mon–Sat, 11am–6pm Sun. 7
center now girdle its base,
and the “Pru” is linked through Copley Place is a creation of late the symbols summarizing practical
indoor walkways with the Inside the beautiful, stained-glass Mapparium, Christian Science Center 20th-century urban develop-
Hynes Convention Center and ment, with hotels, an upscale
the Sheraton Back Bay Hotel its shops to the more glamorous e Christian Science shopping center, and restaurants.
in one unified complex. An Copley Place across busy Offices and luxury apartments information is on the back flap.
enclosed walkway even links Huntington Avenue. Apart from Center are also part of the development, Bow-fronted, red-brick houses, typical of South End’s Union Park
175 Huntington Ave. Map 3 B3.
the shops and food courts, the  Symphony. Mother Church: which rises on land created
principal attraction of the “Pru” Tel (617) 450-2000. Open noon– above the Massachusetts by 400-ft (121-m) painting y Union Park
is the Skywalk on the 50th 4pm Thu–Sat. 8 11am Sun. Library: Turnpike. Copley Place bears The Battle of Gettysburg by the Tremont & Shawmut Sts. Map 4 D4.
floor. The Skywalk is the only Tel (617) 450-7000. Open 10am–4pm little relation to Copley Square, French artist Paul Philippoteaux.  Back Bay/South End. 7
360-degree aerial observatory Tue–Sun (last entry to Mapparium but the shopping mall was a The painting was removed in
in Boston, and its location near 3:40pm). & 5 10am & 7pm Sun, success from the day it opened 1889 and is now displayed at Union Park is the green gem
the top of Boylston Street hill noon & 7:30pm Wed (no evening in 1984 and still ranks as Gettysburg National Historic of the South End, built from
provides striking views of the service Jul–Aug). 7 8 Boston’s most luxurious indoor Park. The Cyclorama now 1857 to 1859 when the neigh-
Emerald Necklace (see p105) ∑ marybakereddylibrary.org shopping mall. Its stores serves as a performance and borhood was still fashionable.
as well as downtown and include the jeweler Tiffany’s exhibition space. South End property values
the waterfront. Signs on the The world headquarters of and the status-conscious The Stanford Calderwood crashed in the Panic of 1873, A visitors’ checklist provides
windows assist in identifying the First Church of Christ, department store Neiman Pavilion, with a 360-seat and and the entire district, Union
the landmarks below. A similar Scientist, occupies 14 acres on Marcus (see p153). a 200-seat theater, opened in Park included, became tene-
view, which visitors do not the corner of Huntington and 2004 as the first new theater ment housing for immigrants
need to pay for, is available at Massachusetts Avenues. Known built in Boston in 75 years. arriving from eastern Europe the practical information you
the Top of the Hub restaurant also as the Christian Science t Boston Center The Mills Gallery houses and the Middle East. The South
on the 52nd floor. Some of the Church, this religious body was for the Arts exhibitions focusing on End remains broadly mixed
bar win dows here face west, formed in 1879 by Mary Baker 539 Tremont St. Map 4 D3. Tel (617) emerging contemporary artists, by ethnicity, race, and sexual will need to plan your visit.
town houses along Union Park
media installations and shows
enjoy spectacular sunset
Prudential Tower viewed across the Christian so those having a drink can Eddy. The granite, Romanesque- 426-5000.  Back Bay/ South End. with the emphasis on multi- orientation. The handsome
style Mother Church dates from
Cyclorama: Open call for hours. Mills
Science reflecting pool views over Boston. 1894, but it serves only as a Gallery: Open noon–5pm Wed & Sun, with confrontational, often led the South End’s economic
chapel at the rear of a grander noon–9pm Thu–Sat. Closed public provocative, themes. resurgence in the 1970s, and
Mary Baker Eddy basilica, which was built in 1906 hols. & for performances. ^ 7 it has become, once
again, a coveted
∑ bcaonline.org
to seat 5,000 worshipers. The
Born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1821, Mary Baker was plagued basilica houses the western The centerpiece of a resurgent address. A pair of
with poor health for much of her early life. Fearing death after a
fountains, an iron
hemisphere’s largest pipe organ,
severe fall in 1866, she sought comfort in her Bible, where she manufactured in Boston by South End, the BCA complex fence, and large shade
found an account of how Jesus had healed a palsied man. Her the Aeolian-Skinner Company. includes four stages, an art trees present a truly
own miraculous recovery led her to the principle of Christian Between 1968 and 1973 the gallery, and artists’ studios parklike setting for the
beautifully restored
Science, a doctrine which emphasizes spiritual regeneration Christian Science complex as well as the Boston Ballet 52  BOST ON AREA B Y AREA BEA C ON HILL AND WEST END  53
and healing through prayer alone. In 1875 she published expanded to its present design, Building, home to the com- brick row houses.
her ideas in Science and Health with Key to the which includes an elegant office pany’s educational programs, The 19th-century
Scriptures, the textbook of Christian Science, tower, a reflecting pool, and a rehearsal space, and ornamental ironwork
and gathered students around her, monumental plaza. administrative offices. q Massachusetts State House Hall of Flags VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
on and around these
includ ing Asa Gilbert Eddy, whom she The Mary Baker Eddy Library The Tremont Estates Building houses is particularly Flags carried into battle by
married in 1877. Two years later she for the Betterment of Humanity, at the corner of Tremont Street, The cornerstone of the Massachusetts State regiments from the state of Practical Information
prized by architecture
organized the First Church of Christ, Massachusetts are housed Beacon Hill. Map 1 C4.
buffs. Union Park is
Scientist, in Boston, from which on the Massachusetts Ave side an organ factory in the years House was laid on July 4, 1795, by Samuel Adams here. They are displayed Tel (617) 727­3676.
strictly residential,
Christian Science churches spread of the complex, emphasizes after the Civil War, now houses and Paul Revere. Completed on January 11, 1798, beneath a stained­glass ∑ sec.state.ma.us/trs
although there are a
across the world. Mrs. Eddy remained Eddy’s inspiration rather than artists’ studios, rehearsal space, the Charles Bulfinch-designed center of state skylight depicting seals Open 10am–3:30pm Mon–Fri
few small shops, and
the active leader of the Christian church doctrine. Visitors can and an art gallery. government served as a model for the U.S. of the original 13 colonies. (reservations recommended).
Science movement until her death in peer through a glass wall into The largest of the BCA restaur ants which have 7 8
1910. She is buried at Mount Auburn the newsroom of the Christian buildings is the circular, domed Capitol Building in Washington and as an
become very pop ular
for Saturday and
Cemetery in Cambridge. Science Monitor. The most Cyclorama, which opened in Red-brick façade of the Boston Center for the Arts, site inspiration for many of the state capitols around The State House, from Boston Common Transport
Sunday brunch.
popular exhibit is the 1884 to exhibit the 50-ft (15-m) of theaters and exhibition spaces the country. Later additions were made, but  Park Street.
the original building remains the archetype
of American government buildings. Its . Nurses Hall
This marble hall is lined with murals
dome, sheathed in copper and gold, serves depicting critical events leading up
as the zero mile marker for Massachusetts, to the American Revolution. The
making it, as Oliver Wendell Holmes (see name derives from the statue
p47) remarked, “the hub of the universe.” of an army nurse here, erected
to honor all the nurses who
took part in the Civil War.
Story boxes provide details on famous
people or historical events.
. House of Representatives
This elegant oval chamber was built for the
House of Representatives in 1895. The Sacred
Stars indicate the Cod, which now hangs over the gallery, came
to the State House when it first opened in
1798, and it has since hung over any place
most interesting sights. where the representatives have met.
Entrance
KEY
windows. The win dows illustrate
1 The wings of the State
House, thought by many to sit the many varied state seals of
incongruously with the rest of Massachusetts: from its time as
the structure, were added in 1917. a colony through to modern Senate Chamber
Boston’s Major Sights 2 The Great Hall is the latest statehood. George Washington is Prior to 1895, this was the meeting
Doric Hall
4 Administrative offices can
chamber of the House of
addition to the State House. Built
be found on the upper floors of
among the historical
Representatives. Situated directly
figures represented here.
4These are given more extensive in 1990, it is lined with marble and the building. The center doors of the hall beneath the State House’s magnifi­
topped by a glass dome, and is
cent dome, the chamber features a
5 The dome was sheathed in
used for state functions.
beautiful sunburst ceiling, also
copper in 1802 to prevent water
are only ever opened for
3 The main staircase is decorated
leakage, and, in 1872, gilded
a state governor at the
designed by Charles Bulfinch.
coverage, sometimes two or more with beautiful stained­glass in 23­carat gold. end of his term or for a
visiting head of state.
full pages. Historic buildings are
dissected to reveal their interiors;
museums and galleries have
color-coded floor plans to help Captions provide more detailed
you find important exhibits. information about specific sights.
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