Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Public Garden
Make Way for Ducklings
George Washington
Cheers
Panifico
Cafe Vanille
Arthur Fiedler
Boston Center for
Adult Education
First Baptist Church
Newbury Street
Exeter Street Theater
Church of the Covenant
Boston Museum of
Natural History
Emmanuel Church
Arlington Street Church
Copley Square
Trinity Church
Boston Public Library
The Tortoise and the Hare
at Copley Square
Charles
River
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PUBLIC
GARDEN
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start here
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Arlington
Arlington
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Copley
Copley
COPLEY
SQUARE
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Take a Break
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The mall is 100-feet wide (the entire
street is 240 ft.) and stretches to Kenmore
Square. The elegant Victorian mansions
on either side—almost all divided into
apartments or in commercial or educa-
tional use—are recognized as a great
asset, but the apparently random collec-
tion of sculptures along the mall is less
acclaimed. Judge for yourself as you
inspect the art, starting with
Alexander
Hamilton,
across Arlington Street from
George Washington.
The most moving
sculpture is at Dartmouth Street: The
Vendome Memorial
honors the memory
of the nine firefighters who lost their lives
in a blaze at the Hotel Vendome in 1972.
Two blocks from the Public Garden, at 110 Com-
monwealth Ave., at the corner of Clarendon
Street, is the:
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First Baptist Church
Built from 1870 to 1872 of Roxbury
puddingstone, it originally housed the
congregation of the Brattle Street Church
(Unitarian), which had been downtown,
near Faneuil Hall.
At Clarendon Street or Dartmouth Street, turn
left and walk 1 block to:
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Newbury Street
Commonwealth Avenue is the architec-
tural heart of the Back Bay, and Newbury
Street is the commercial center. Take
some time to roam around here (see
chapter 9 for pointers), browsing in the
galleries, window-shopping at the bou-
tiques, and watching the chic shoppers.
Walk down Newbury Street to Exeter Street. At
26 Exeter St. is the building that was once the:
