Architecture in Massachusetts

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

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

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

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

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

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

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.