The leader of the pack is the Bernard Toale Gallery. Toale originally opened the gallery in 1992 on Newbury Street and then moved to his current digs six years later.
Boston’s chefs have a long history of inventiveness. Beantown invented Boston Baked Beans, the Boston Cream Pie, the Parker House Roll, and coined the term “scrod” for a type of fish. But if these foods strike you as, well, a little commonplace, you’ll be happy to know that Boston is very much an epicurean’s delight with more than enough top-notch restaurants to excite the most jaded of haut palates. Photo courtesy Greater Boston CVB/ FayFoto A café on Newbury Street. Related Links: History/overview Museums Galleries Shopping Dining Nightlife Walking Tour The town’s finest establishments are mostly French-inspired and are spread
Boston is sometimes accused of having an inferiority complex compared to New York City, its larger, louder neighbor to the south. There’s a hint of jealousy in one of Boston’s many nicknames, “the hub of the universe,” but Beantown, a more humble moniker that refers to a dietary staple during colonial times, has several sides to its personality. Today, Boston has more art and culture venues per capita than its southern neighbor—and architecture that’s every bit as good. This is reflected in yet another sobriquet: “The Athens of America.” The Puritans founded Boston in 1626, just six years after the
Architectural History If you come to Boston expecting to see a city full of buildings that date back to Colonial America, you will probably be disappointed. While there are a few surviving examples of traditional New England architecture—salt box houses with small windows and wooden clapboards—like most U.S. cities, Boston has had several face lifts over the years. And now, with the completion of the Big Dig and the removal of its old elevated highway Central Artery, it’s in the midst of yet another. Photo courtesy Greater Boston CVB/ FayFoto The Old State House, built in 1713—and decommissioned in 1798—it
Boston is sometimes accused of having an inferiority complex compared to New York City, its larger, louder neighbor to the south. There’s a hint of jealousy in one of Boston’s many nicknames, “the hub of the universe,” but Beantown, a more humble moniker that refers to a dietary staple during colonial times, has several sides to its personality. Today, Boston has more art and culture venues per capita than its southern neighbor—and architecture that’s every bit as good. This is reflected in yet another sobriquet: “The Athens of America.” The Puritans founded Boston in 1626, just six years after the
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is unique among museums in the United States, if not the world, in that it was founded, designed, and curated by a woman—its namesake—at a time before women had earned the right to vote.
People unfamiliar with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tend to picture it as a bastion of, well, nerds majoring in computer science, engineering, and architecture.
Boston was founded by Puritans and some might say that its nightlife retains an echo of this heritage: unlike clubs in New York, the city that never sleeps, Boston establishments close at 2:00 a.m. That may seem early, but you can pack a lot in before last call—and Boston might surprise you in just how much it has to offer. Photo courtesy Greater Boston CVB/ FayFoto Faneuil Hall Marketplace at night. Related Links: History/overview Museums Galleries Shopping Dining Nightlife Walking Tour Bars and light-night nibbles Saint, in the Copley Square Hotel, is among the city’s swankiest, most exclusive bars—something that
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