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|  Drinking Fountain and a Horse and Rider [Lewis Park] - Walpole, MA
in American Guide Series Where East, Everett, and Plympton Streets define a town green, there still exists today a stone memorial that was a drinking fountain and a statue of a horse and rider, each memorializing a member of the Lewis family. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/22/2012 last visited: never |
view gallery NE4.5 km
|  Morrill Memorial Library - Norwood, MA
in American Guide Series The Morrill Memorial Library is a building of gray stone in the Romanesque style, and on the lawn is a boulder that has an historic inscription on it. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 4/26/2010 last visited: never |
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|  Plimpton Press - Norwood, MA
in American Guide Series Plimpton Press was capable of producing over 50,000 volumes a day when it was active, but the company is gone and the building is now used as a storage facility. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/11/2009 last visited: never |
view gallery NE5.1 km
|  Norwood Memorial Municipal Building - Norwood, MA
in American Guide Series This building, completed only nine years before the guide was published for Massachusetts, still stands and serves as the government center for the town of Norwood. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/6/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Stoughton-The Town Hall - Stoughton, MA
in American Guide Series Stoughton's Town Hall, at the time, served a city of 8,472 and was the performance center of the Stoughton Musical Society, now serves a population of 26,962 (2010 Census). posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 2/12/2012 last visited: never |
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|  Mother Brook - Dedham, MA
in American Guide Series Mother Brook, one of the earliest canals dug in America, connected the Charles River with the Neponset River 'before 1640,' and was the basis of industry in Dedham (and the Hyde Park section of Boston). posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/6/2012 last visited: never |
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|  Old Stowe House - Natick, MA
in American Guide Series The Old Stowe House, built in 1816 is a two-and-a-half story white clapboarded structure date back to the boyhood days of Professor Calvin Stowe, who was the character Horace Holyoke in a novel by his wife, Harriet Beecher Stowe. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/30/2010 last visited: never |
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|  The Crane Memorial Public Library - Quincy, MA
in American Guide Series The Crane Memorial Library, commissioned in 1880, is considered the best of the H. H. Richardson's work in architecture, and is still part of Quincy's main public library. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 4/7/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NE25.6 km
|  Statue of Alexander Hamilton - Boston, MA
in American Guide Series This statue is a none-foot carving by William Rimmer, using impressionistic techniques that were criticized at the time, but its qualities receive present-day recognition. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/4/2011 last visited: 10/3/2011 |
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|  Site of the Village Smithy - Cambridge, MA
in American Guide Series At tbe corner of Story Street and Brattle Street there is a stone marker that locates the site of the Smithy by the Chestnut tree that Longfellow immortalized in his poem, The Village Blacksmith. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/29/2009 last visited: never |
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|  First Parish Church (Unitarian) - Cambridge, MA
in American Guide Series The First Parish (Unitarian) Church building was built in 1833 and is a prominent feature in Harvard Square, by Harvard University. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/20/2009 last visited: 7/18/2008 |
view gallery N26.1 km
|  Sever Hall - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
in American Guide Series Sever Hall on the campus of Harvard University is a red brick building designed by H. H. Richardson and has rare carved brick forms over the front and back. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 2/2/2010 last visited: never |
view gallery N26.1 km
|  Massachusetts Hall - Cambridge, MA
in American Guide Series Massachusetts Hall was erected in 1720 with funds granted by the province of Massachusetts and is the oldest hall currently standing in Harvard University. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/29/2009 last visited: never |
view gallery N26.1 km
|  Harvard Yard - Cambridge, MA
in American Guide Series Harvard Yard is the original center of Harvard University and still keeps much of its Old World charm and may well be described as one of the most beautiful college campuses in America. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/27/2009 last visited: 10/10/2010 |
view gallery N26.1 km
|  Statue of John Harvard - Cambridge, MA
in American Guide Series The John Harvard Statue, also known as the 'Three Lies Statue', is an imaginary likeness of the first benefactor of Harvard University. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/29/2009 last visited: 7/2/2012 |
view gallery N26.1 km
|  University Hall - Cambridge, MA
in American Guide Series University Hall, designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1813-1815, is built using Chelmsford Granite that contrasts with the mostly brick buildings surrounding it. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/29/2009 last visited: 10/10/2010 |
view gallery N26.2 km
|  Christ Church - Cambridge, MA
in American Guide Series Christ Church (Episcopal) in Cambridge, MA, was designed by Peter Harrison and built in 1761, was used as barracks for the Continental Army in 1775-1776. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/21/2009 last visited: 7/20/2008 |
view gallery NE26.2 km
|  The Wadsworth House (Third Harrison Gray Otis House) - Boston, MA
in American Guide Series The Wadsworth House, on Beacon Street facing Boston Common, is a Bulfinch-designed house that is currently the headquarters to the American Meteorological Society (AMS). posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 6/28/2011 last visited: 11/25/2011 |
view gallery N26.2 km
|  Site of the Washington Elm - Cambridge, MA
in American Guide Series Though the bronze plaque that the book references not found, a stone tablet was found, instead, that marks the location where General George Washington took command of the Continental Army. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/20/2009 last visited: 9/7/2012 |
view gallery NE26.2 km
|  Louisburg Square - Boston, MA
in American Guide Series Loiusburg Square, a private park surrounded by multi-story brownstones, is the epitome of Beacon Hill style where many well known people had lived by or near. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/18/2012 last visited: 10/31/2012 |
view gallery NE26.4 km
|  Robert Gould Shaw Memorial - Boston, MA
in American Guide Series The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial is a notable group statue in high relief by Augustus Saint-Gaudens that stands facing the Massachusetts State Capitol. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/4/2011 last visited: 10/31/2012 |
view gallery NE26.6 km
|  Boston Athenaeum - Boston, MA
in American Guide Series The Boston Athenaeum is one of the oldest private libraries in the country, tucked on Beacon Street, and has a rich collection of historical documents and collections, including most of George Washington's collection. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/4/2011 last visited: 11/23/2011 |
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|  Old Corner Bookstore - Boston, MA
in American Guide Series The building that is still often referred as the Old Corner Bookstore is now a jewelry store, but it had housed the most famous bookstore in Boston and the offices of Ticknor and Fields. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/2/2009 last visited: 11/21/2011 |
view gallery NE26.7 km
|  Harrison Gray Otis House (Cambridge St) - Boston, MA
in American Guide Series The Harrison Gray Otis House has, since 1916 has been the headquarters for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, and is still open for tours. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/28/2011 last visited: never |
view gallery NE26.7 km
|  West End Church - Boston, MA
in American Guide Series The West End Church, a historic church designed by Asher Benjamin and built in 1806, is a square, brick structure that at the book's time was a library, but now is a survivor of drastic redevelopment and once again is a place of worship. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/28/2011 last visited: never |
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