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(Boston, MA 6/9/19) Mayor Martin Walsh attends Rep. Michlewitz’s 4th Annual Cornhole Tournament in the North End. (Mayor’s Office Photo by John Wilcox)
The Public Garden, also known as Boston Public Garden, is a large park located in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston Common.
The Public Garden was established in 1837 when philanthropist Horace Gray petitioned for the use of land as the first public botanical garden in the United States. Grey helped marshal political resistance to a number of Boston City Council attempts to sell the land in question, finally settling the issue of devoting it to the Public Garden in 1856. The Act establishing use of the land was submitted to the voters on 26 April 1856 where it passed with only 99 dissents.
In October 1859 Alderman Crane submitted the detailed plan for the Garden to the Committee on the Common and Public Squares and received approval. Construction began quickly on the property, with the lake being finished that year and the wrought iron fence surrounding the perimeter erected in 1862. Today the north side of the lake has a small island, but it originally was a peninsula, connected to the land. The site became so popular with lovers that the John Galvin, the city forester, decided to sever the connection with the land.
The 24 acres (97,000 m2) landscape, which was once a salt marsh, was designed by George F. Meacham. The paths and flower beds were laid out by the city engineer, James Slade and the forester, John Galvin. The plan for the garden included a number of fountains and statues. The first statue erected was that of Edward Everett by William Wetmore Story in November 1867 on the north part of the Garden near Beacon Street. The bronze statue of George Washington by Thomas Ball which dominates the west side of the park was dedicated on 3 July 1869. The signature suspension bridge over the middle of the lake was erected in 1867.
The Public Garden is managed jointly between the Mayor's Office, The Parks Department of the City of Boston, and the non-profit Friends of the Public Garden.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987
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Boston Market Exterior in Winter Snow February. 2014 Pics by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube!
May 23, 2013 - Scenes from the Empower Campaign launch party marking the start of the University's $1 billion comprehensive campaign on Thursday night at an event held in the Marino Center that featured inter?ac?give research exhibits and inspiring calls to sup?port the university’s momentum.
Boston,31 marzo 2016 - Il presidente del Consiglio Matteo Renzi incontra alcuni ricercatori italiani.
Welcome to Boston Guildhall Museum and Tourist Information Centre.
Built in the 1390’s this building is a testament to the wealth and influence of the Guild of St Mary at a time when Boston’s power as a centre of trade was second only to London. This wonderfully preserved building, with a wealth of original features, has survived the centuries and is to be enjoyed as one of Boston’s finest visitor attractions.
A wealth of stories, secrets and experiences are told and shared throughout the building including the history of the Guild of St Mary, international trade with the Hanseatic League, the foundation of the Corporation of Boston and the very famous trial and imprisonment of the Pilgrims.
Boston Guildhall Museum is free to visit and our opening hours are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am – 3:30pm, last admission to the museum is 3pm.
www.mybostonuk.com/bostonguildhall/
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Boston’s wealth was due to the activities of the Guildsmen of St Mary – an internationally significant religious fraternity in one of the most important ports of medieval England who were able to communicate directly with the pope.
The merchant’s Guild of St Mary was a religious guild founded in 1260. For a gold coin fee and annual subscription, men, and unusually for the time, women, could be members and they maintained the Lady Chapel in Boston Stump for the purposes of “get out of purgatory” prayer. They also made provision for support of the poor of the parish.
The merchants made their fortunes trading mainly in wool – the backbone and driving force of medieval English economy. Boston’s Guildsmen worked hard and played hard. They recruited paupers of the town, giving them board, lodging and pay, to be beadsmen. The Beadsmen, so named because of the rosary beads they used during prayer, were paid by the merchants to help save their souls from the torture of eternal damnation. They believed that they could carry on living sinful and debauched lives so long as they continued to pay the Beadsmen to say prayers to reduce the time they would have to spend in the limbo of purgatory where their souls would be purified from sin.
When the Crown gave approval for guilds to possess assets, Boston’s fantastically rich merchants almost immediately built the Guildhall, making it one of the first in the country. The Guildhall was built from a new material not readily available in the 13th Century. The clay to mike its red bricks was dug out locally, and even Flemish brick makers were employed when it would have been much easier and cheaper to build out of more traditional materials such as stone or timber.
Their Beadsmen now had a home from which to pray for doomed souls – and the merchants celebrations went on, much of it actually in the new Guildhall’s banqueting hall. Many of these celebrations or festivities centred around religious dates on the calendar – feast and saints’ days – but there would always be food galore and mead and wine on these occasions.
They believed that in order to further to reduce their time in purgatory, gifts of property and land were given to the guild in return for salvation, calculated on a “pay” scale, ranging from 100 days remission from penance all the way up to 500 years of absolution. Over the centuries the guild acquired many sacred relics including a silver and gilt case containing an image of the Virgin and Child and, most fantastically, a sample of the Virgins breast milk. These items, along with others, recorded on an inventory on display in the Council Chamber. Were such alleged artefacts to still exist today Boston would be a world centre for pilgrimage to rival Lourdes and Turin. Along with a silver and gilt case containing part of the stone of Calvary, Boston Guildhall’s treasures have been long lost, claimed by King Henry VIII when he broke his ties with the pope and renounced religious guilds, taking land and property from them.
The Guildhall’s use as a religious building ended with the dissolution of the guilds and the founding of the new Corporation in 1545.
www.mybostonuk.com/bostonguildhall/museum/
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Boston Guildhall is a former municipal building in Boston, Lincolnshire. It currently serves as a local museum and also as a venue for civil ceremonies and private functions. It is a Grade I listed building.
(Boston, MA 2/3/22) Mayor Michelle Wu participates in the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Advancement event at Blue Cross Blue Shield. (Mayor’s Office Photo by John Wilcox)
(Boston, MA 11/22/21) Mayor Michelle Wu attends Macy’s Tree Lighting. (Mayor’s Office Photo by John Wilcox)
As we started our ride out through Boston Harbor I looked back at the arch of the Boston Harbor Hotel and the towers of the Financial District behind it.
1930’s Glass Plate Negative: Boston Gardens can be seen in the background of this glass negative. It was located at 150 Causeway St.,Boston, MA. 02114. The Garden was erected in 1928 and hosted sports, concerts, political events and many other venues. The Gardens was also the North Station train terminal for the Boston and Maine Railroad. In 1998 it met it’s fate and was demolished to the ground.
Photographer credited as Leslie Jones. A photojournalist at the Boston Herald-Traveler newspaper.
Image derived from the original glass negative.