Crowning Beacon Hill above Boston Common, the Massachusetts State House is the seat of the Commonwealth’s government and one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks. Designed by Charles Bulfinch and completed in 1798, the red-brick building is topped by a gleaming dome originally sheathed in copper by Paul Revere’s company and later covered in 23-karat…
The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse rises along the harbor on Fan Pier in Boston’s Seaport District, its curved brick facade and soaring glass conoid facing the water. Completed in 1998 and designed by architect Henry N. Cobb, the building houses the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the First Circuit…
The John F. Kennedy Federal Building is a modernist government complex on the edge of Government Center, adjacent to Boston City Hall Plaza. Designed by the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius and his firm The Architects Collaborative and completed in the mid-1960s, it consists of two towers and a lower wing arranged around the brick-paved plaza….
Boston City Hall is the seat of the city’s municipal government, a landmark of the Brutalist architectural style completed in 1968. Designed by Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles, its inverted-pyramid concrete form rising above a broad brick plaza is one of the most discussed and polarizing buildings in the United States — celebrated by architects and…
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