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Back Bay
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Filled-in tidal flats turned the country's most intact Victorian neighborhood. Newbury's boutiques, Copley's library, Boylston's runners, and the gold-leaf Trinity Church reflected in I.M. Pei's blue glass tower.
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What to do
- •Walk Comm Ave Mall end-to-end
- •Bates Hall reading room (silent, Sargent murals upstairs)
- •Sunset at View Boston
- •Trinity Church tour
- •Marathon Day at the finish line (April)
Walking trails
Tree-lined pedestrian median from the Public Garden to Kenmore.
Mass Ave to Longfellow bridge and back along the Charles.
Boylston St with brownstone window-shopping.
Events
- •Boston Marathon finish (April)
- •Boston Pride Parade (June)
- •Tree Lighting at the Pru (Dec)
- •Boston Calling spillover
Fun facts
- ✦The grid is alphabetical: Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester, Hereford.
- ✦All the brownstones sit on wood pilings 30+ ft deep — kept wet by the water table.
- ✦Hancock Tower's windows fell out in the 1970s and were replaced with plywood for years.
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