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Boston Public Library was founded in 1852. The first Boston Public Library location opened in 1854 in two rooms in the Adams School on Mason Street. Because the Mason Street space was small and poorly lit, a new building opened at 55 Boylston Street in 1858. It cost $365,000 to build and held 70,000 volumes.
The Boston Public Library contains approximately 24 million items, [ 7 ] making it the third-largest public library in the United States behind the federal Library of Congress and New York Public Library, which is also privately endowed. In 2014, the library held more than 10,000 programs, all free to the public, and lent 3.7 million materials.
January 29, 1964. (#66000133) Little Brewster Island. Boston Harbor. 42°19′40″N 70°53′24″W / 42.3279°N 70.8900°W / 42.3279; -70.8900 (Boston Light) The nation's second oldest standing lighthouse, Boston Light was built on the site of the first lighthouse in what is now the United States.
Join the South Dennis Free Public Library for a Boston Tea Party party at 10 a.m. on Dec. 16. A scavenger hunt, games and crafts will commence and cookies and tea will be served to guests.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose will called for her art collection to be permanently exhibited ...
October 9, 1960. Faneuil Hall (/ ˈfænjəl / or / ˈfænəl /; previously / ˈfʌnəl /) is a marketplace and meeting hall located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in 1742, [2] it was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain.
Franklin Place. Franklin Place, designed by Charles Bulfinch and built in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1793–95, included a row of sixteen three-story brick townhouses that extended in a 480-foot [1] curve, a small garden, and four double houses. Constructed early in Bulfinch's career, Franklin Place came after he had seen the possibilities of ...
The original Museum of Fine Arts building in Copley Square. The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870 and was initially located on the top floor of the Boston Athenæum. Most of its initial collection came from the Athenæum's Art Gallery. [3] In 1876, the museum moved to a highly ornamented brick Gothic Revival building designed by John ...