Boston Scavanger Hunt

cca

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Assignment:

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Boston Buildings which use pendentives.
 
Sound like fun. You could have picked an easier first object though. ;)

For those who don't know:

pendentive
In architecture, a triangular segment of a spherical surface that forms the transition between the circular plan of a dome and the polygonal plan of its supporting structure.

180px-Pendentive_and_Dome.png
 
Without doing a crazy amount of "worktime" research ... I can only confirm that Boston has 1 set of 4 pendentives. I am sure there are many more ... but I only know of one at the moment.

cca
 
Almost every Orthodox church in the city is built that way
 

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