Landmark
The Grand Restoration of Boston’s First Church of Christ, Scientist
This article is from the fall 2024 issue of Boston Home. Sign up here to receive a subscription. In the Back Bay, the Romanesque First […]
Living Monument
Isabella Stewart Gardner, Boston’s most famous patron of the arts, relished the time she spent at Green Hill, the 40-acre Brookline estate she and her […]
Re-Formed for the Future
Imagine ascending a steep mountain slope. You traverse side to side across the pitch in a switchback fashion, turning almost 180 degrees at the edge […]
A Primer on Boston’s Victorian-Era Buildings
From Boston Home’s Summer 2023 issue. Boston is considered a contemporary architectural underdog, often overshadowed by larger cities. But few places can boast of more than […]
What the Boston Athenaeum’s $17 Million Renovation Looks Like
The Boston Athenaeum isn’t the inner sanctum you may think it is—although it did start out that way. Among the nation’s largest independent membership libraries […]
Historic Interpretation
When it was built in 1902, the Ayer Mansion at 395 Commonwealth Avenue broke with Back Bay tradition. Rather than using the red brick favored […]