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Boston Athenæum – one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States; Boston Children's Museum; Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum – on the Fort Point Channel, includes a full-scale replica of the Eleanor and Beaver, two of the ships involved in the event
New York: Princeton Architectural Press. Jarzombek, Mark (2004). Designing MIT: Bosworth's New Tech. Boston: Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-1-55553-619-0. Simha, O. Robert (2001). MIT Campus Planning 1960–2000: An Annotated Chronology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Office of the Executive Vice President. ISBN 978-0-262-69294-6.
The Boston Common is a public park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.It is the oldest city park in the United States. [4] Boston Common consists of 50 acres (20 ha) of land bounded by five major Boston streets: Tremont Street, Park Street, Beacon Street, Charles Street, and Boylston Street.
The Boston Post Road connected the city to New York and the major settlements in Central and Western Massachusetts. The lower route ran near present-day U.S. 1 via Providence, Rhode Island . The upper route, laid out in 1673, left via Boston Neck and followed present-day U.S. Route 20 until around Shrewsbury, Massachusetts .
Act to Incorporate the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Acts of 1861, Chapter 183 Stereographic card showing an MIT mechanical drafting studio, 19th century (photo by E. L. Allen, left/right inverted) Original Rogers Building, Back Bay, Boston, c. 1901 In 1859, a proposal was submitted to the Massachusetts General Court to use newly filled lands in Back Bay, Boston for a "Conservatory of ...
In 1822, [16] the citizens of Boston voted to change the official name from the "Town of Boston" to the "City of Boston", and on March 19, 1822, the people of Boston accepted the charter incorporating the city. [69] At the time Boston was chartered as a city, the population was about 46,226, while the area of the city was only 4.8 sq mi (12 km 2).
Chinatown, Boston (Cantonese: 唐人街; Jyutping: Tong4jan4gaai1) is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States.It is the only surviving historic ethnic Chinese enclave in New England since the demise of the Chinatowns in Providence, Rhode Island and Portland, Maine after the 1950s.
Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. Wentworth was founded in 1904 and offers career-focused education through 22 bachelor's degree programs as well as 11 master's degrees.Edit [10]