Recent content by PercyL

For what it's worth, the wrapping has continued long after the demo of the CA (the bow had to be updated when Beal changed its corporate name after a merger). It was quite visible from the surface arteries and Greenway, just no longer visible to auto traffic now routed through the tunnel. Insta...

I wonder if that celebration in 1875 served also as a celebration of recovery from the Great Fire of 1872.

Speculation: It looks like a Red Ensign with the Royal Union in the canton; since this is from 1875, that's during the Dominion of Canada's early Confederation (1867- ) period, when the Red Ensign was commonly used for lack of a proper Dominion flag. It's also a few years after the Great Fire of...

41 years, after college in Virginia. 1983 was within the decade after the busing crisis began (and a mere decade after the completion of the local highway system), and it was a meteor whose impact was still being felt in many ways, by presence and absence.

Then again, I believe it's long been an unspoken requirement from the BPDA/BRA that no skyscrapers are permitted to be designed to be iconic in a good way. That suites developers, because iconic designs are stickier to change or destroy.

Because evergreen trees (vs shrubs) are more difficult to manage over time. They are not as well prunable and contained as deciduous trees.

Well, while realization is years in the future, the announcement of the beginning of preparation for planning the eventual replacement of the Tobin Bridge (the need for which would not shock anyone who has used the bridge regularly since roughly 1992) was a rare albeit brief moment of...

So that should be from World War II, after the initial build of the New England Mutual building in 1941 but before the 1947 Hancock Building was erected. From left to right, you can see the Suffolk County Courthouse, the Custom House Tower, the federal courthouse/post office, and the United...

Tip's home was at 26 Russell Street, literally adjacent to the Cambridge/Somerville city line, halfway between Porter Square and Davis Square.

A fantastic shot of legacy rail from Peabody MA this week: https://railpictures.net/photo/839657/

A fantastic shot of legacy rail from Peabody MA this week: https://railpictures.net/photo/839657/

Yes, I agree with pairing 70 Federal with 10 School as good, one might even say, refined, examples in this district.

I think that's one of the Financial District's best modern buildings. It echoes skeletal cast iron commercial architecture of the mid-19th century. The original details, such as they are, are well proportioned (I am not a fan of the more recetly added black surface treatment between the first...

I thought I recognized that instantly. That's Sea Dog Brewing Company in Exeter NH - a renovated building complex that before the renovation used to include a beloved restaurant of mine in that town, the Loaf and Ladle.

Mass Ave at Washington Street is not the boundary between Roxbury and South End residential parking districts - it's well within the South End - the actual boundary is closer to the historical municipal boundary between the town of Roxbury and town/city of Boston...