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It already has a great lighting feature every night at sunset. The sunset colors rise up and down the slit and create a wonderful look. I'll try to get a photo of it.

I was referring to this comment. "What about the Cornice Height of 200 Clarendon directly across the street"

Only the North side of Boylston is in the Historic District.

It was the Edinboro Building on the 1938 Bromley Atlas. I found this write up in this BRA document https://archive.org/stream/onelincolnstreet00king/onelincolnstreet00king_djvu.txt "85-91 ESSEX, THE EDINBORO BUILDING, GEO. POPE, 1890 The Edinboro Building is a dignified 6xl0-bay brick and...

One of the people who was updating that site has just one a Preservation award for a new site that might be of interest to those who enjoyed the other site. http://backbayhouses.org/ The email address I had for the owner stopped working a few years ago.

I wonder if it could be part of the Castle Garden complex. http://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?id=CA595716-155D-451F-675EBBAD8A6BA3FC It looks like a glass house or greenhouse but I don't see mention of one as part of the immigration center. But, there was both the round central...

Back Bay Residential District: Guidelines for Exterior Rehabilitation and Restoration has a footprint map from circa 1971 on page 36. You can download a copy from: https://ia700809.us.archive.org/26/items/backbayresidenti00bost/backbayresidenti00bost.pdf This is also residential but the...

WBUR just did a map of great views of Boston and I featured it as a Friday link on BostonZest. http://www.bostonzest.com/2014/01/wburs-guide-to-the-best-views-of-boston-our-friday-link.html

For background purpostes, Wikipedia has a long entry on this topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Numbered_Highways As does the Federal Highway Administration. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm

The Smithsonian has a folder of papers on Pope and a small collection of his work. You might try to contact a curator there to see what they might know. http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?tag.cstype=all&q=Pope%2C+Alexander+1849-1924&start=0} Description of the folder, "may include...