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Another nice shot!

At this stage, anyway, it's looking better than I imagined. Which isn't terrific, but pleasant enough.

Indeed. From "Estimate of Physical Changes On the Prudential Site and Surrounding Blocks Occurring Since 1955" (BRA 1961): Run-of-the-mill redevelopment.

I looked a little more into it. Judging from map 14 on this Roxbury map page, a "South End Bypass" (H) was planned that would have been close to Huntington/Columbus, leading to the Pike. I don't know how far along they got with this, or if it would have necessitated clearing that length on...

Thanks for the info. It made sense to me at the time, since I really cannot imagine demolishing any of what used to be there for something like the Midtown Motor Inn.

I was talking about this with a friend of mine the other day, and he told me about the proposed but abandoned plan for an "Inner Belt". Apparently, Huntington Ave across from the Christian Science Plaza was seized and leveled through eminent domain for construction of the Inner Belt.

No, they were concrete (there's a thorough description of their production in "Concrete Stone Manufacture" by Harvey Whipple - 1915).

According to Edwin Monroe Bacon in The Book of Boston, they are "four allegorical female figures." He doesn't go further than that. They were designed by Roger Noble Burnham, designer of the bronze doors at the Forsyth Dental Center in the Fenway.

Re: Marriott Long Wharf makeover You're not the only one. I'm also fine with it, for same reasons. It fits in with the area, IMO.

Boston.com - March 9 '09

Re: New tower at Christian Science Church Plaza It's definitely not a great-looking building, but it is (as far as I know) the only decent budget hotel that's so centrally located in the city. Area colleges put up visiting students there quite a bit. Tearing it down's a good idea, as long as...

Re: South Station Tower - Full Steam Ahead! It's also in the BPL's Fine Art collection...in library use only. The title is from a 2003 exhibition at Harvard's GSD.

From The Streets of San Francisco: A History: Back in 1839, when San Francisco was Yerba Buena, a Mexican outpost of cabins and tents huddled between a bayside cove and some chaparral-covered hills, the authorities asked a Swiss surveyor, Jean-Jacques Vioget, to lay out a rudimentary grid of...

Re: New tower at Aquarium parking garage. Kunstler on the suburbs: "They represent the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world." He's in favor of more smaller, shorter cities, a la Burlington, VT.

It's an awesome sight in that park. The exterior of the building is really cool.

Biddy Early's pub, on the edge of the Financial District. As someone said in another thread, it's a wonder it still exists, and I'm happy that it does!

So true! And "fast food" is a misrepresentation of what Sal's is. It's a local pizza/sub joint, more of which would help to make DTX a great place again.

Atomic Bean Cafe - unrelated to the Atomic Cafe, according to someone on Chowhound.

Nope, Mojo is gone (out of business) - soon to come in that spot, according to the storefront, is the Atomic Bean Cafe. Central Square's sole remaining record store is Cheap-O Records, which moved a little while back from its subterranean HQ to the closed Skippy White's storefront. However...a...

I probably should have written "policy" rather than policy :)