Kim Zullo Meyer orientation monument - East Boston, Massachusetts - Orientation Tables on Waymarking.com

The Kim Zullo Meyer orientation table and monument overlooks Boston's harbor and skyline from the southern terminus of a Boston Harborwalk segment immediately east of Logan Airport near the Hyatt Harborside Hotel.

"My first monument - the Kim Zullo Meyer monument, commissioned by Jay Cashman Inc and erected by MassPort. It's an orientation piece at the end of the Harbor Walk in East Boston, noting neighborhoods and prominent buildings from the downtown Boston vista beyond. — at East Boston Harbor Walk." - Ulwick Affiliates Architects

The piece consists of angled, light gray, granite blocks set in a semi-circle spiral with an east-facing opening. A slope rises approximately two feet from ground level to a horizontal span then a dramatic uplift to a sharp point of fifteen feet in height. Images of major landmarks of the Boston skyline are chiseled and named along the inward-angle of the arc. Locations labeled include, from left to right: Castle Island; Boston Edison South Boston Plant; South Boston Seaport District - General Ship Shipyard and World Trade Center; South Boston - Pier 4; Financial District - the John Hancock Building, Rowe's Wharf, and Custom House; The North End - Old North Church; and East Boston - Bunker Hill Monument. Dedication and construction information is engraved in two groups on the outward face of the tallest and final segment. They read, upper and lower respectively:

DEDICATED TO
KIM ZULLO MEYER
4•5•62 - 12•1•91

SHE DEVOTED HER CAREER
TO PROJECTS TO
REVITALIZE THE PORT OF
BOSTON. KIM IS FONDLY
REMEMBERED BY HER
FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES
AS A LOVER OF THE
HARBOR'S BEAUTY AND
INDUSTRY.

CLIMB HIGH, CLIMB FAR
YOUR GOAL, THE SKY
YOUR AIM, THE STAR

ERECTED BY
THE MASSACHUSETTS
PORT AUTHORITY AND
J M CASHMAN INC
1994
DESIGNED BY
ULWICK AFFILIATES
ARCHITECTS
FABRICATED BY
A MONTI GRANITE CO
QUINCY, MA

Artist / Creator: JM Cashman, Inc., Ulwick Affiliates Architects, and A Monti Granite Company Date of creation: 1994 Location / Access: On the Boston Harborwalk 350 feet south of Hyatt Harborside, 101 Harborside Dr., Boston, MA

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