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The construction project was managed by Bond Brothers. It cost $100 million to build. The site contains approximately 137,000 square feet (12,700 m 2) of land area, with approximately 500 feet (150 m) of frontage on Boylston Street. [1] The first six floors are retail and small office space. Above that there is a 19-story office tower with ...
The City of Boston reserved several lots for churches, museums, and other community buildings. A lot bounded on the north and south by Newbury and Boylston streets, and to the east and west by Berkeley and Clarendon streets, was awarded to the Boston Society of Natural History and to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Boylston Street in 1911. Boylston Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and its western suburbs.The street begins in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood, forms the southern border of the Boston Public Garden and Boston Common, runs through Back Bay and Boston's Fenway neighborhood, merges into Brookline Ave and then Washington Street, emerging again ...
Last September, the borough rolled out paid parking to 40% of the town's 1,500 spaces, charging $1 an hour from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and $2 an hour from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. each day to park in the three ...
The Fenway-Boylston Street District is a historic district encompassing a series of predominantly residential buildings lining The Fenway in the Fenway–Kenmore of Boston, Massachusetts. Developed beginning in the 1890s, the area is emblematic of Boston's upper-class residential development of the period, with architect-designed houses built ...
In 1991, a plan was put forth to connect all of the buildings together with an enclosed and expanded shopping center, in the area bordered by Boylston Street, Huntington Avenue, and Dalton Street. The Hahn Company, together with then-owner Prudential Insurance Company of America, spent over two years developing the $100 million project.
It is located at the corner of Boylston and Exeter Streets; one block from Newbury Street, Copley Square, and the Prudential Tower. In addition, the Lenox sits next to the Boston Public Library. The Lenox is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [1]
In 1913, subway workers tunneling under Boylston Street to extend Boston’s early subway system discovered wooden stakes in the blue-gray glacial clay, 32 feet (9.8 m) below street level. Workers destroyed many of the stakes, but enough evidence was gathered at the time that researchers thought they had found one large fish weir, thought to ...