Boston's Custom House began as a domed Greek Revival temple at the water's edge in the 1840s. In 1915 a tower was added that soared past...
Beneath a downtown department store, Filene's Basement pioneered automatic markdowns and bargain hunting as a Boston ritual. Its ideas helped shape the off-price retail industry that...
From 1920 to 1933, national Prohibition outlawed the alcohol trade, yet Boston never really went dry. Here is how the city lived through those years, from...
In September 1919 most of Boston's police officers walked off the job over the right to unionize. Nights of disorder followed, the State Guard was called...
In 1872, a merchant's bequest and a Jamaica Plain estate gave Harvard the chance to create an arboretum. A unique deal with the City of Boston...
Massachusetts created Patriots' Day in 1894 to mark the first battles of the Revolution. This feature traces the holiday's origins and the dawn reenactments, parades and...
In November 1872, a fire that began in a Summer Street warehouse destroyed much of Boston's commercial district. Here is how it spread, why it was...
The telephone was invented in Boston. A teacher of the deaf named Alexander Graham Bell and a young machinist named Thomas Watson turned experiments in a...
Boston's Chinatown grew from a handful of workers who settled near the South Cove in the 1870s and 1880s into one of the largest Chinese American...
On September 1, 1897, streetcars rolled underground beneath Boston Common for the first time. Here is why Boston built America's first subway and how opening day...
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