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Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, [2] built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin. Construction began in 1859, as the demand for luxury housing exceeded the availability in the city at the time, and the area was fully built by around 1900. [3]
Boston [a] is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.The city serves as the cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States.
Designed by architect Alexander Rice Esty and constructed in 1861, it was the first building completed on Newbury Street in Boston's newly filled Back Bay. In 1899, Frederic Crowninshield designed its sanctuary's centerpiece window, in which the allegorical figure Piety, from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, points the way to Emmanuel's Land.
The Gibson House Museum is a historic house museum located at 137 Beacon Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.It preserves the 1860 Victorian rowhouse occupied by three generations of the Gibson family.
Often compared to Georges-Eugène Haussmann's Paris boulevards, Commonwealth Avenue in Back Bay is a parkway divided at center by a wide grassy mall. This greenway, called Commonwealth Avenue Mall, is punctuated with statuary and memorials, and forms the narrowest "link" in the Emerald Necklace.
The islands in Boston Harbor are administered as part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. [1]The Boston Redevelopment Authority, [2] the City Parking Clerk, [3] and the City's Department of Neighborhood Development [4] have also designated their own neighborhoods.
The House at 1 Bay Street, an 1830 house listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The western part of the neighborhood was originally part of the body of water known as the Back Bay, west of the Boston Neck isthmus.
Copley Square / ˈ k ɒ p l i / [1] is a public square in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, bounded by Boylston Street, Clarendon Street, St. James Avenue, and Dartmouth Street.The square is named for painter John Singleton Copley.