Photo of the Day, Boston Style: Part VII (2014)

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Very nice pictures posted so far this year!

















 
I like the PO sq and the last one :) <Dorchester Iphone pano
 
Marlborough and Beacon Streets closed down due to the fire on Feb 1;





Charles looking angry from the same day;

 
Whoa... BostonUrbEx, this one's for you.

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From the top of Mission Hill yesterday:

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Oh, and I love finding relics like this...

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Originally I thought these led to the Parker Hill Reservoir that was here from the 1870s(?) to the early 1900s, but on second thought I believe they were constructed in the 1910s when Robert Breck Brigham built his hospital up here. This is from 1929, and you can see the stairs leading to the building up top:

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BPL on Flickr

The buildings in the middle are still there and are now part of New England Baptist (which at the time was in the smaller buildings in the bottom of the pic) but the upper structures were gone by 1938, so those stairs would've only been in use for a couple decades before being orphaned.

And before the hospitals was the reservoir, though I haven't been able to find any actual pictures of it.

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OK there's your history lesson for the day.
 
^^^ Really cool pic and the lights make it seem a lot less intimidating at night





 
The standard classic Back Back / Kendall Square skyline view from Prospect Hill, winter edition;

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