A guide to touring...

Boston

Landmarks Trinity Church (1872) Faneuil Hall (1805) Stanley Saitowitz's Holocaust Memorial (1995) on Congress St between Hanover and North Old State House (1713) Old North Church (1723) Copp's Hill Burying Ground Custom tower Arched glass building (33 Arch) Old South Meeting House on Washington Common (with + Hank Willis Thomas' "The Embrace", Augustus Saint-Gaudens' “Shaw Memorial” across from the State House) Tremont Temple (88 Tremont St) Park Street Church (1809) King's Chapel (1749) Machinery Building (160 Federal St) Transportation Terminal (South Station) New England Telephone & Telegraph (6 Bowdoin Sq) Old City Hall (45 School Street) Beacon Hill, eg Scarlett O’Hara House (3 Rollins Place & Revere Street) Public Garden with Nancy Schon's “Make Way for Ducklings” 75 State St State St Bank Building (225 Franklin Street) 125 High St International Place (Philip Johnson, 100 Oliver St, round building) Bank of America (Federal and Franklin) Theater District (511-559 Washington St) Newbury Street Christian Science Plaza (Huntington Avenue south of Newbury St) with Araldo Cossutta's "Reflecting Pool" (1972) Museum of Fine Arts El Mac's mural at Northeastern Univ's Meserve Hall Cambridge: Harvard Square Harvard University Education School neear Radcliffe College Austin Hall Memorial Hall Sanders Hall Widemer Library Matthews Hall Mass Hall Walter Gropius: Harvard Graduate Center of Harvard Law School Le Corbusier: Carpenter Center Museum (Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait in Tuxedo", 1927) Richard Lippold’s "World Tree" (Law School, between Child Hall and Holmes Hall) Rothko's murals in Harvard's Holyoke Center MIT: Stata Center (by Frank Gehry) MIT: Pei's Wiesner Building at Media Lab (1985), 75 Amherst St MIT: Saarinen's Chapel MIT: Auditorium MIT: Louise Nevelson's sculpture "Transparent Horizon" (1975) at Landau Building (Building 66) MIT: Jaume Plensa's "Alchemist" (2010) at Stratton Student Center MIT: Alexander Calder's "The Big Sail" (1965) at McDermott Court Graffiti Wall at Modica Way (567 Massachusetts Ave, Central Square subway) Cambridge churches Cambridge: John Vassall's house (105 Brattle Street) Boston vicinity: South End: Lilli Ann Killen Rosenberg's “Betances Mural” (1979) at Villa Victoria (Aguadilla Street & Tremont St) Topsfield: Parson Joseph Capen House (1683) Salem: Gardner-Pingree House (1805) Salem: Pierce-Nichols House (1782) Wenham: John Whipple House (1640) Quincy: Crane Memorial Library (1883) Hingham: Old Ship Meeting House (1681) Dedham: Jonathan Fairbanks House (1636) Lincoln: Walter Gropius House (1938) East Boston (150 Orient Ave): Arrigo Minerbi's “Madonna Queen of the Universe Shrine” (1954) Somerville: David Fichter's “Mystic River Mural” (along Mystic Avenue/ Route 38 at Shore Drive) Dorchester: Luc Hoa Buddhist Center with sculpture garden (7 Greenwood Park, Fields Corner subway) Jamaica Plain: Center Street murals (eg “Tenango” at 2 Harris Ave) Roxbury: Murals at Tobin School (40 Smith St) Clinton: Museum of Russian Icons