Boston Tea Party Museum | 306 Congress Street | Fort Point

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Pedrick's storehouse moved in pieces from Marblehead to Salem, and re-created several years ago.

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Image below is too large to post. If you click on it, one can see the year-old paint is already weathering.

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And yes, the reproduction of a Salem merchant ship has an aluminum gangplank.
 
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Considering Boston has proven to be completely inept at designing a forward thinking Seaport, I'll take a building that looks to it's past any day so long as it has this much charm. This building also reminds me that Boston can experiment much more with color to positive results.
 
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In Rockport, the famous shack called 'Motif No. 1' was destroyed by a blizzard. They replaced it with a replica, which now looks just as worn as the original did.
 
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This building also reminds me that Boston can experiment much more with color to positive results.
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Excellent point BD. We're also seeing that right now at the First & First townhouses in Southie.
 
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Looks great. I believe it will be a huge success.
 
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Good lord when is Suffolk going to open the north pedestrian lane of the bridge? I can't believe it's still closed! I was a Masshole street walker the other day during rush hour.
 
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^I don't think you should be announcing that you are a "street walker" online.... might get some unwanted solicitations.
 
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I'll take Disney over the soul crushing sterile environments championed by the 'Heroic' Modernists or the fast-food developer cost reduction driven architecture being dumped on most of the country.
 
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I tend to equate Disney with those fly-by-night builders.

It's all stage craft, make it look shiny on the outside who cares how it's actually built.

All based on the Cinderella Castle prototype.
 
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statler said:
I tend to equate Disney with those fly-by-night builders.

It's all stage craft, make it look shiny on the outside who cares how it's actually built.

All based on the Cinderella Castle prototype.
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If you ever get a chance to take a tour of one of their properties, do it. Yes, the exterios is puff but the infrastructure is amazing.
 
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There is a ship at the museum today. It currently is mastless - I assume so that it could fit under the bridges entering FP Channel - specifically the Moakley Bridge.
 
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The ships look fantastic.
 
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The Beaver - with masts rising


The Beaver - with Fan Pier rising
 
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Thinking about it, I'd have to say the Fort Point "neighborhood" is the most improved neighborhood in the past 10 years. This is another notch in its belt, surely.
 
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BostonUrbEx said:
Thinking about it, I'd have to say the Fort Point "neighborhood" is the most improved neighborhood in the past 10 years. This is another notch in its belt, surely.
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Needs a couple of An der Spree Biergarten -- then after a long morning taking pix of projects -- a place to sit for a while and unwind mit ein grosse bier!
 
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BostonUrbEx said:
Thinking about it, I'd have to say the Fort Point "neighborhood" is the most improved neighborhood in the past 10 years. This is another notch in its belt, surely.
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Rebuilding this tourist shrine, which is really between Fort Point and downtown anyway, doesn't do much for the actual neighborhood. I say the West Fens are the most improved neighborhood in the last ten years by a long shot, thanks to Boylston development.
 
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