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That is looking south over Haymarket Square, towards the Flour & Grain Exchange at distant left and the old Post Office at distant right. And in the other photo I believe that is indeed the fated molasses tank whose rupture is remembered every warm day in mid-January....

FWIW, the revised cladding of the corner-facing facades of 408 Atlantic Avenue has been highly regarded.

And the Boston-side of St Mary's went through what is now Marsh Chapel.

Paris is the capital of a nation that is far more centralized when it comes to supporting this kind of thing than the USA would ever be. It's appropriate to remember - and celebrate the rejection of - this boondoggle proposal because it was for 2024 and the rejection happened 10 years ago...

Correct. The Vestmark and other buildings, directly across the highway from the Jordan's complex, would still be to the west of that last zoomed image.

Of course scheduled during the two biggest vacation weeks of the summer (the week before and after July 4th).

Tons of people walk along the Greenway and adjacent streets during the day even in the holiday season.

For what it's worth, the wrapping has continued long after the demo of the CA (the bow had to be updated when Beal changed its corporate name after a merger). It was quite visible from the surface arteries and Greenway, just no longer visible to auto traffic now routed through the tunnel. Insta...

I wonder if that celebration in 1875 served also as a celebration of recovery from the Great Fire of 1872.

Speculation: It looks like a Red Ensign with the Royal Union in the canton; since this is from 1875, that's during the Dominion of Canada's early Confederation (1867- ) period, when the Red Ensign was commonly used for lack of a proper Dominion flag. It's also a few years after the Great Fire of...

41 years, after college in Virginia. 1983 was within the decade after the busing crisis began (and a mere decade after the completion of the local highway system), and it was a meteor whose impact was still being felt in many ways, by presence and absence.

Then again, I believe it's long been an unspoken requirement from the BPDA/BRA that no skyscrapers are permitted to be designed to be iconic in a good way. That suites developers, because iconic designs are stickier to change or destroy.

Because evergreen trees (vs shrubs) are more difficult to manage over time. They are not as well prunable and contained as deciduous trees.

Well, while realization is years in the future, the announcement of the beginning of preparation for planning the eventual replacement of the Tobin Bridge (the need for which would not shock anyone who has used the bridge regularly since roughly 1992) was a rare albeit brief moment of...

So that should be from World War II, after the initial build of the New England Mutual building in 1941 but before the 1947 Hancock Building was erected. From left to right, you can see the Suffolk County Courthouse, the Custom House Tower, the federal courthouse/post office, and the United...