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(Boston, MA 6/24/22) Mayor Michelle Wu attends the Roe v. Wade decision press conference outside the State House. (Mayor’s Office Photo by John Wilcox)
BOSTON, MA. - JULY 31: Boston College High School graduation on July 31, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. Photo by Angela Rowlings
Boston Market #1225 (2,617 square feet)
1300 Greenbrier Parkway, Greenbrier Marketcenter, Chesapeake, VA
This location was built and opened in 1997, was repainted in 2020, and closed in May 2023. It became a Chase Bank on November 13th, 2024.
File name: 08_06_034669
Title: Boston Garden area
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1954
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Construction; Boston (Mass.)
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
File name: 11_07_000624
Title: Central Artery and downtown: Note Customs House & Harbor Towers, downtown Boston
Creator/Contributor: Grant, Spencer, 1944- (photographer)
Date created: 1971
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 35 mm.
Genre: Film negatives; Cityscape photographs; Aerial views
Subjects: Boston (Mass.); United States Customhouse (Boston, Mass.); Cities & towns; Skyscrapers; Towers
Notes: Title from photographer caption.
Collection: Spencer Grant Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Spencer Grant
The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse can be seen in the foreground as Boston is lit up at night.
Friday, January 27, 2012 - Governor Patrick answers questions at his desk in a live online chat on Boston.com. (Photo: Eric Haynes / Governor's Office)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. The city boundaries encompass an area of about 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to 4,941,632 people as of 2020, ranking as the eleventh-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Worcester, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the seventh-most populous in the United States.
Boston is one of the nation's oldest municipalities, founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from the English town of the same name. During the American Revolution and the nation's founding, Boston was the location of several key events, including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the hanging of Paul Revere's lantern signal in Old North Church, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the siege of Boston. Following American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to play an important role as a port, manufacturing hub, and center for American education and culture. The city has expanded beyond the original peninsula through land reclamation and municipal annexation. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing more than 20 million visitors per year. Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public park (Boston Common, 1634), the first public school (Boston Latin School, 1635), the first subway system (Tremont Street subway, 1897), and the first large public library (Boston Public Library, 1848).
In the 21st century, Boston has emerged as a global leader in higher education and academic research. Greater Boston's many colleges and universities include Harvard University and MIT, both located in suburban Cambridge and both routinely included among the world's most highly ranked universities. The city is also a national leader in scientific research, law, medicine, engineering, and business. With nearly 5,000 startup companies, the city is considered a global pioneer in innovation and entrepreneurship. Boston's economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, and government activities. Households in the city claim the highest average rate of philanthropy in the United States. Boston businesses and institutions rank among the top in the country for environmental sustainability and new investment.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway_Park
Fenway Park is a ballpark located in Boston, Massachusetts, less than one mile from Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has been the home field of Major League Baseball's (MLB) Boston Red Sox. While the stadium was built in 1912, it was substantially rebuilt in 1934, and underwent major renovations and modifications in the 21st century. It is the oldest active ballpark in MLB. Because of its age and constrained location in Boston's dense Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood, the park has many quirky features, including "The Triangle", Pesky's Pole, and the Green Monster in left field. It is the fifth-smallest among MLB ballparks by seating capacity, second-smallest by total capacity, and one of nine that cannot accommodate at least 40,000 spectators.
Fenway has hosted the World Series eleven times, with the Red Sox winning six of them and the Boston Braves winning one. Besides baseball games, it has also been the site of many other sporting and cultural events including professional football games for the Boston Redskins, Boston Yanks, and the Boston Patriots; concerts; soccer and hockey games (such as the 2010 NHL Winter Classic); and political and religious campaigns.
On March 7, 2012 (Fenway's centennial year), the park was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is a landmark at the end of the Boston Irish heritage trail. Former pitcher Bill Lee has called Fenway Park "a shrine". It is a pending Boston Landmark, which will regulate any further changes to the park. The ballpark is considered to be one of the most well-known sports venues in the world and a symbol of Boston.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox
The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East Division. Founded in 1901 as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the team's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912. The "Red Sox" name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, c.1908, following the lead of previous teams that had been known as the "Boston Red Stockings", including the Boston Braves (now the Atlanta Braves). The team has won nine World Series championships, tied for the third-most of any MLB team, and has played in thirteen World Series. Their most recent World Series appearance and win was in 2018. In addition, they won the 1904 American League pennant, but were not able to defend their 1903 World Series championship when the New York Giants refused to participate in the 1904 World Series.
The Red Sox were a dominant team in the new league, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in 1903 and winning four more championships by 1918. However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, dubbed the "Curse of the Bambino" after its alleged inception due to the Red Sox' sale of star player Babe Ruth to the rival New York Yankees two years after their World Series championship in 1918. The Sox endured an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Series championship in 2004. The team's history during that period was punctuated with some of the most memorable moments in World Series history, including Enos Slaughter's "mad dash" in 1946, the "Impossible Dream" of 1967, Carlton Fisk's home run in 1975, and Bill Buckner's error in 1986. Following their victory in the 2018 World Series, they became the first team to win four World Series trophies in the 21st century, with championships in 2004, 2007, 2013 and 2018. The team's history has also been marked by its intense rivalry with the New York Yankees, arguably the fiercest and most historic in North American professional sports.
The Red Sox are owned by Fenway Sports Group, which also owns Liverpool of the Premier League in England, the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins and partially owns RFK Racing of the NASCAR Cup Series. They are consistently one of the top MLB teams in average road attendance, while the small capacity of Fenway Park prevents them from leading in overall attendance. From May 15, 2003, to April 10, 2013, the Red Sox sold out every home game—a total of 820 games (794 regular season) for a major professional sports record. Both Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" and the Standells' "Dirty Water" have become anthems for the Red Sox.
As of the end of the 2024 season, the franchise's all-time regular-season record is 9,955–9,263–83 (.518).
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Massachusetts) "ماساتشوستس" "麻萨诸塞州" "मैसाचुसेट्स" "マサチューセッツ" "매사추세츠 주" "Массачусетс"
(Boston) "بوسطن" "波士顿" "बोस्टन" "ボストン" "보스턴" "Бостон"
Last hockey game at the Boston Garden - pre-game ceremonies - The last NHL hockey game played there took place on Sunday, May 14, 1995.
Stained Glass Window
3 - St Simon with falchion and book.
4 - Apostle - Matthias?
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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.
File name: 08_06_015665
Title: "Gardens" in East Boston along railroad
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1917 - 1934 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Glass negatives
Subjects: Gardens
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred citation: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Boston Market #436 (3,240 square feet)
9550 E Independence Boulevard, Matthews, NC
This location opened on August 8th, 1994 as a Boston Chicken.
Boston is Massachusetts’ capital and largest city. Founded in 1630, it’s one of the oldest cities in the U.S.
File name: 11_07_000674
Title: Homes and power plant, Southie, South Boston
Creator/Contributor: Grant, Spencer, 1944- (photographer)
Date created: 1976
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 35 mm.
Genre: Film negatives
Subjects: South Boston (Boston, Mass.); Houses; Power plants; Smokestacks
Notes: Title from photographer caption.
Collection: Spencer Grant Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Spencer Grant
Monday, July 22, 2013 - Mike Ross pays a visit to Boston school children to highlight plans for education reform in the city.
The British soldiers kill the Americans.
Boston Massacre Reenactment organized by the Bostonian Society
BOSTON, MA - OCTOBER 20: (L to R) Taylor Twellman, Kelly Olynyk, Joe Andruzzi, Jim Rice and Johnny Bucyk play a blindfold game in the Seacrest Studios at Boston Children's Hospital October 20, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images for Boston Children's Hospital)
Last hockey game at the Boston Garden - pre-game ceremonies - The last NHL hockey game played there took place on Sunday, May 14, 1995.
BOSTON (April 17, 2014) - Cardinal Seán celebrated Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
The Mass recalls the Last Supper, in which Jesus institutes the Eucharist and the priesthood, and washes the feet of the apostles, an event which is re-enacted by the celebrant, in this case Cardinal Seán.
At the end of the Mass, the Eucharist is processed to an Altar of Repose for a time of Adoration.
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