Recent content by billski

Well, the BRA declared the block to be historically insignificant and altered so far beyond its original design to make it impossible to restore. Let's not forget the infamous "Rathskellar" was located on this block. I wrote a tome about the square here.

Take a look at the grating that is affixed to the 4th floor. I'd like to know what that is for. It must be for a significant purpose, since it does nothing to enhance the building's attractiveness. All the floor configurations are identical. These are all apartments. I wonder if it has...

Source: A new lair for lions, Boston Globe, page 8, July 27, 1974 The lions at the building entryway weighed three tons and made of concrete Source: 18-story apartment building to rise where lions sat in Back Bay, Boston Globe, page A_47, Dec 8, 1974

Well, I think you are on the right track. In 1960, the Daily Boston Globe reported that the block of buildings, 675 and 683 to 691 Boylson St. at Exeter, including the Kensington building was sold to the Rockland-Atlas National Bank of Boston. The bank, located at 36 Huntington Ave. did so...

Thanks Bostonzest, it never would have even occurred to me to look at the Smithsonian. I'll give them a ring. Which inspires me, perhaps the BPL has more than just photographs of Pope.

Hi all, I joined this forum in the hopes that we might be able to brainstorm on the whereabouts of a missing architectural lion. It's of interest to me as an alumni and unofficial historian of the Cambridge School, which resided in that building from 1958 to 1964*. The school's mascot, a...