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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]
Back Bay station (also signed as Back Bay · South End) is an intermodal passenger station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located just south of Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay and South End neighborhoods. It serves MBTA Commuter Rail and MBTA subway routes, and also serves as a secondary Amtrak intercity rail station for Boston.
The Back Bay and Beacon Hill are also home to national and local politicians, famous authors and top business leaders and professionals. Bay Village is one of the smallest neighborhoods in Boston and mostly contains Greek Revival-style row houses. [10] North and east of downtown are the neighborhoods of East Boston and Charlestown.
The tallest structure in Boston is the 60-story 200 Clarendon, better known to locals as the John Hancock Tower, which rises 790 feet (241 m) in the Back Bay district. [2] It is also the tallest building in New England and the 80th-tallest building in the United States.
1990 Back Bay, Massachusetts, train collision; Back Bay station; Berkeley Building; Berklee College of Music; BitSight; Boston Architectural College; 2014 Boston Brownstone fire; Boylston Street Fishweir; Brownstone
Aerial view of Back Bay, showing Esplanade at near bank of the Charles River, 2009 (with Longfellow Bridge and Kendall Square, Cambridge, in distance). The limited-access parkway Storrow Drive forms the southern boundary of the park, with the Charles River marking the northern edge.
The Back Bay Center is an unexecuted building complex in Boston, Massachusetts The project was proposed by real estate developer Roger L. Stevens on a former rail yard of the Boston and Albany Railroad .
The Crowninshield House is a historic house at 164 Marlborough Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1870, it is the first residential design of the renowned architect Henry Hobson Richardson. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.