Architecture in Boston

Discover 17 places to experience unusual architecture in Boston.

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Scarlett O’Hara House

This faux Greek Revival mansion is a clever optical illusion tucked into a Beacon Hill alley.

Berkeley Weather Beacon

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Berkeley Weather Beacon

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Class of 1959 Chapel.

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Class of 1959 Chapel

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

Calf Pasture Pumping Station.

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Calf Pasture Pumping Station

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

26 Exeter Street

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First Spiritualist Temple

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Original stairs in the ruins, July 2016

Boston, Massachusetts

Franklin Park's Overlook Shelter Ruins

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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Exchange Place Staircase to Nowhere

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The Hayden today.

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Hayden Building

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

Tremont Temple

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Tremont Temple

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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Faneuil Hall

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This Wikimedia treasure is an early sketch of the church by Bulfinch himself

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St. Stephen's Church

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

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Boston's First Street

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The current building is now a 7-11.

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Mather Home

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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Diorama of Venetian Palace

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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Eliot Public School

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

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Old North Church

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.