Photo of the Day, Boston Style - Part Deux

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The castle on Columbus Avenue: what is it currently used for?

Such a neat building! I think it has been a restaurant, a conference center, an academic building and an auction gallery --in addition to its original military function.
 
The Castle at Park Plaza is owned, or at least managed, by the Park Plaza Hotel across the street:
Exhibitions, trade shows or receptions can take place in a designated National Historic Landmark right across from the hotel. With 17,280 s.f., The Castle at Park Plaza is spacious and versatile enough to accommodate your every exposition and conference need, from 110 8'xlO' booths to an auditorium for 2,000.

Part of it is now a Smith & Wollensky steak house.

First Night events often use this space.
 
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Wow, that last pic looks like a drawing for a postcard.
 
Dude, you are the second person I know to take a picture of that. WHERE/WHAT IS IT!?!
 
SS Pierce Building in the foreground with Pelham Hall in the background.

Coolidge Corner, Brookline MA 1930s.

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Still there - home to Fugakyu (sushi place) - it is apartments. I love that building, it's like an old 1920s slice of New York in the middle of Brookline.

The list of retailers in that store is the very story of Brookline itself...

1) Drake's (as in the snack cakes) had a soda jerk there. Back in the 1930s FDR's son lived there and there was secret security in the building.

2)Then it became an Irish pub/family restaurant (the 1284) where JFK and the Kennedy crime syndicate ran a lot of their business. I believe it is also where JFK launched his bid for the presidency, or at least where all the plans were.

3) Now it's uppity and very pricey japanese food - one of dozens in Coolidge Corner.

The building has been very carefully and lovingly restored by Nordblom Company - the same company that has owned it since the 1930s. How's that for stable, long-term ownership???
 
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