Boston Made Chronicles Weekly meetings in Boston’s Puritan meeting houses were as much civic gatherings as religious services, blending governance and faith in ways that shaped...
Boston Made Chronicles The Massachusetts Bay Colony’s royal charter of 1629 set the legal foundation for Puritan settlement, establishing the governing structures that would shape Boston...
Boston Made Chronicles Long before it was a manufacturing city, colonial Boston was one of the busiest shipbuilding ports in the British Empire, its wharves lined...
Boston Made Chronicles Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens spent 14 years crafting the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, unveiled on Boston Common in 1897 to honor the 54th Massachusetts,...
Boston Made Chronicles Founded in 1872, the Boston Globe grew into one of the most influential regional newspapers in the country, chronicling the city’s triumphs and...
Boston Made Chronicles A modest brick building at the corner of Washington and School Streets, the Old Corner Bookstore, published the works of Hawthorne, Longfellow, and...
Boston Made Chronicles Opened in 1900, Boston’s Symphony Hall was engineered using some of the earliest scientific acoustic principles and is still regarded as one of...
Boston Made Chronicles Boston’s nickname, Beantown, traces back to the colonial-era popularity of molasses-baked beans, a dish tied to the city’s trade in molasses and its...
Boston Made Chronicles Generations of Italian bakeries, cafes, and restaurants have made Boston’s North End one of the most celebrated food neighborhoods in the country, a...
Boston Made Chronicles The 1976 restoration of Quincy Market into a lively “festival marketplace” of shops and food stalls became a national model for reviving historic...
