Claflin Building - Boston, MA
Posted by: 
silverquill
N 42° 21.472 W 071° 03.768
19T E 330120 N 4691571
Quick Description: This Queen Anne office/residential building was designed by architect William Gibbons Preston and constructed in 1884, and is part of the Beacon Hill Historic District in Boston, Massachusetts.
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 10/6/2009 11:21:59 PM
Waymark Code: WM7CZM
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Long Description:
This Queen Anne office/residential building was designed by
architect William Gibbons Preston and constructed in 1884.
It has been remodeled into luxury condominiums, but the essence of
the building has been preserved.
Below from
DC
Memorials ===
The Claflin Building, dating from 1882-1884, was the first home of
the Boston University College of Liberal Arts. The architect of
this building was William G. Preston.
In Nancy Lurie Salzman’s Buildings and Builders: An Architectural
History of Boston University (Boston University, 1985) appears the
following description (page 24)
“In the spandrels between the arches, the terra-cotta portrait
plaques of the artists Albrect [sic] Durer and Anton van Dijk
(Anthony van Dyke) separate the three window arches, which
terminate in paired columns.”
Albrecht Durer
Claflin Building
Boston, MA
Antoon van Dijk
Claflin Building
Boston, MA