Massachusetts - Boston, The Public Garden and The Common

The Public Garden and The Common, Boston, Massachusetts.

(The picture was taken from the roof of the Ritz Carlton Hotel.)

The sender spent 19 cents for breakfast that morning!

This postcard was postmarked in 1964. 

Massachusetts - Boston, City Hall and Government Center

Faneuil Hall, City Hall, and Government Center, Boston

Modernistic buildings illustrating Boston's faith in the future contrast dramatically with colonial Faneuil Hall.  In the City Hall, the J.F.K. Federal Building public servants work to preserve the "new" ideas of freedom introduced in Faneuil Hall long before the American Revolution.

Massachusetts - Boston, The Old State House

The Old State House
Boston, Massachusetts

The Old State House was the seat of the King's Colonial Government when it was completed in 1713.  It is now an interesting museum and a part of the Boston National Historical Park.

Photo by Jonathan J. Klein
2015

Massachusetts - Boston, Hotel Lenox

Hotel Lenox near Copley Square,
Boston, Mass.

A Comfortable, Friendly Place to stay
A Delightful, Satisfying Place to eat
A Distinctive place to entertain

Boylston and Exeter Streets, Boston, Mass
1952

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Today:
This is still the Lenox Hotel and Recently rated #1 on TripAdvisor. It is a perennial AAA Four Diamond property, and a member of Historic Hotels of America.

As much a Boston landmark as Fenway Park or Faneuil Hall, the handsome Italianate structure in Copley Square famously known as the Lenox was built in 1900 in just eight months at a cost of $1.1 million--one of the first hotels constructed in Boston's Back Bay. For years the Lenox sat adjacent to a railroad yard, which made it convenient for wealthy guests like opera star Enrico Caruso to pull their rail cars right up to hotel.

A $20 million renovation that took three years touched upon every one of the 212 guest rooms and suites. Each is now outfitted in a variety of soft color schemes with brass chandeliers, crystal lamps, rich dark wood furniture and marble bathrooms and comes with numerous amenities, including voice mail, hair dryers, bathrobes and umbrellas. Many guest rooms also have working fireplaces.

Titanic - Surpassing the Greatest Buildings, Olympic and Titanic

Surpassing the Greatest Buildings and Memorials of Earth
The White Star Line's New Triple-screw Steamers

"Olympic" "Titanic"
Largest and Finest in the World
(See Over)

the back reads:

Interesting Comparisons
read from left to right

1. Bunker Hill Monument, Boston - - 221 Feet High
2. Public Buildings, Philadelphia  - - 534 Feet High
3.  Washington Monument, Washington - - 555 Feet High
4. Metropolitan Tower, New York - - 700 Feet High
5. New Woolworth Bldg, New York - - 750 Feet High
6. White Star Line's Triple Screw Steamers Olympic and Titanic - - 882 1/2 Feet Long
7. Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany - - 516 Feet High
8. Grand Pyramid, Gizeh, Africa - - 451 Feet High
9. St. Peter's Church, Rome, Italy - - 448 Feet High

This postcard is a pre-sinking Advertising Titanic / Olympic postcard

Massachusetts - Boston, Historic Views

Historic Boston

Top: Old South Meeting House, Old State House, USS. Constitution, State Capitol, Old North Church and Paul Revere Statue.

Center: Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere's House.

Bottom: Old Corner Bookstore, Boston Common, Old Granary Burying Ground, King's Chapel, Bunker Hill Monument.

Photos by Thomas H. Mitchell, Ethan Duran, James Lemass
2012

Massachusetts - Boston, Home of Paul Revere

Paul Revere Home, Boston, Massachusetts
Situated on North Street, one of the oldest sections of Boston.  This house still stands in its originality, all around it is now located a district which is mainly populated by Italian residents.

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Paul Revere (January 1, 1735  – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere's Ride. As a result, his "midnight ride" is a legendary part of United States history.

Here is a start of the poem .....

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."