MGH Ragon Building | 55 Fruit Street | West End

[Jeremi]

I think the highrise portion is fine, maybe even a bit bland. It’s just that the street level is a complete mess. Why would anyone want a hospital to look like this?

The fact that this thing is so visible from certain parts of Beacon Hill is just the insult on top of the injury.

 

[stick n move]

I think the highrise portion is fine, maybe even a bit bland. It’s just that the street level is a complete mess. Why would anyone want a hospital to look like this?

Yea I agree. As I said before it looks like they got all of the correct pieces, but then assembled them in the wrong order on the base, making it look jumbled. Yet again architects trying to make something stand out and be unique vs just making something thats nice and makes the area around it a better place to be.

 

[DZH22]

Just think, the other half will be an even stumpier, more poorly proportioned version of THIS. Same thing but without the "soaring" as MGH doubles down on some really crappy architecture.

 

[stick n move]

Just think, the other half will be an even stumpier, more poorly proportioned version of THIS. Same thing but without the "soaring" as MGH doubles down on some really crappy architecture.

Not only that but theyre going to demolish these beautiful brick buildings in order to fit it.

6/21/25 cont.

There was a short time where they were going to fudge a piece of one of these buildings into the corner, but they gave up on that pretty quick.

 

[Jeremi]

Not only that but theyre going to demolish these beautiful brick buildings in order to fit it.



There was a short time where they were going to fudge a piece of one of these buildings into the corner, but they gave up on that pretty quick.

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Those buildings aren’t even real brick. Prefab panels.

 

[Stlin]

Not only that but theyre going to demolish these beautiful brick buildings in order to fit it.



There was a short time where they were going to fudge a piece of one of these buildings into the corner, but they gave up on that pretty quick.

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That's part of this half thats under construction; see Beelines progress photo below. I believe that's then going to be clad with the previously disassembled Winchell School facade, which is on the Blossom / Parkman corner. (As previously noted, the brick MGH professional building fronting Cambridge pictured isn't historic, as it only dates to 1990.)

As of 6/21/25.

 

[stick n move]

Yea I didnt say it was historic, its just a decently nice building on an otherwise pretty dystopian street wall on that side of cambridge st. Thanks for pointing out they added that little brick corner back on tho lol, I hadnt realized it was back in there. Just another piece that looks like its part of a puzzle that was assembled wrong.