Founded in 1870 and opened on July 4, 1876, in Copley Square, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts grew from a civic idea into one of the...
Founded in 1848 and opened in 1854, the Boston Public Library was one of the first large free municipal libraries in the United States. Its Copley...
Isabella Stewart Gardner built a Venetian-style palace in the Fenway to house her extraordinary art collection, then left strict rules that it must never change. Her...
Between the 1880s and the 1920s, Italian immigrants turned Boston's oldest neighborhood into a crowded, close-knit Little Italy of parishes, mutual-aid societies and religious feasts that...
In October 1881, a banker's dream of a permanent orchestra became reality at the Boston Music Hall. Here is how the BSO began and why its...
Around the turn of the 20th century, Boston's West End became home to a large community of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, with synagogues, shops and...
In the 1830s and 1840s, a circle of Boston-area thinkers challenged the religion, education and social order of their day. Here is who they were and...
As the first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, Horace Mann campaigned for free, universal, well-funded public schools and trained teachers. His reforms became a...
A small group of Boston merchant families brought power-loom factories to New England, built the planned mill city of Lowell and changed American industry. This feature...
Chartered in 1811 and opened in 1821, Massachusetts General Hospital began as a civic project to care for the sick poor. Its founders, its granite Bulfinch...
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