Boston Made Chronicles During the 1920s, Boston’s harbor geography made it a hub for rum-runners and speakeasies, giving the city an outsized role in the cat-and-mouse...
Boston Made Chronicles When Boston police officers walked out in 1919 seeking union recognition, the resulting disorder and Governor Calvin Coolidge’s hard line response propelled Coolidge...
Boston Made Chronicles In 1903, Boston’s American League club defeated Pittsburgh in the first modern World Series, launching a baseball rivalry and tradition that would come...
Boston Made Chronicles In 1897, fifteen runners set off from Ashland to Boston in the country’s first annual marathon, inspired by the revival of the marathon...
Boston Made Chronicles Working in a Boston workshop in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call, a breakthrough that began the age of...
Boston Made Chronicles On September 1, 1897, Boston opened the Tremont Street Subway, the first subway system in North America, easing the streetcar congestion that had...
Boston Made Chronicles Opened in 1848 and rebuilt into its grand McKim building in 1895, the Boston Public Library was the first large free municipal library...
Boston Made Chronicles In 1903, art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner opened a museum modeled on a Venetian palace to house her personal collection, creating one of...
Boston Made Chronicles The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston opened in 1870 and grew into one of the most comprehensive art museums in the country, anchoring...
Boston Made Chronicles Founded by financier Henry Lee Higginson in 1881, the Boston Symphony Orchestra quickly became one of the world’s great orchestras, and its summer...
