![]() I've always liked the North End branch library, a light, airy 1950s work tucked into an area of crowded, narrow streets and older brick apartments and shops, right in the middle of all the Italian restaurant action. MIT has a lovely chapel by Eero Saarinen and the Stata Center, a big Frank Gehry pastiche. Harvard has Le Corbusier’s only North American building. Wander the winding streets of the downtown area. Boston City Hall is famously massive and ‘brutal,’ and the old one on School St a nice piece of Second Empire expression. I M Pei designed a beautiful complex for the Christian Scientists. ![]() See the muscular granite warehouses in the vicinity. The former Custom House is something to see- 1840 Greek Revival building with a 1915 skyscraper plunked down on top of it. I’d rank the library high (McKim Mead & White), also the H H Richardson works like Trinity Church and Sever Hall at Harvard. There are prominent works of architecture by famous architects too. Don’t miss the residential avenues of Back Bay, either. Beacon Hill of course, across the Common from the HI area, older and better known than the South End, is a place to get lost in. Boston has a ton of historic vernacular architecture like this with lots of variation across the neighborhoods. Observe the brick "swell front" row houses on Upton St, Union Park and others. Unless a driving rain the weather should be good for walking! A few suggestions for your walking itinerary: From HI walk through Bay Village and then over the turnpike into the South End. ![]() Don't expect it to be warm but you'll see signs of spring.
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