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...Auburn provide an architectural counterpoint to its natural fall beauty. The tombstone of Charles Bulfinch—architect of such early 19th century Federal-style landmarks as the U.S. Capitol, Faneuil Hall, and Harvard’s own University Hall—is stunning. Set along luminous Bellwort Path, Bulfinch rests beneath a giant, ornate vase. “Graduated at Harvard” are the only words legible of a long, worn-down epitaph. Slightly different in style is the Cabot Lodge family mausoleum, resting place for a long line of Massachusetts senators. Shortly after visiting the unmarked lakeside...
...said, “because we feel that in the long run they will help to preserve this marsh...the last remnant of what they called ‘the Great Swamp.’”She mentioned the improvement work that Bulfinch Companies, Inc., the developer of the CFA building, has already done in pulling up a concrete parking lot and agreeing to restore four acres of the wetlands.Eric D. Schlager, Bulfinch Companies’ chief executive officer, said that the work they have done so far to preserve the area “seemed...
...barbecue, Butler became a kind of Boswell with camera: joining Kerry on his first honeymoon, managing his first (unsuccessful) political campaign and shooting more than 6,000 photographs--so far. This September Butler will release both a documentary and a book, John Kerry: A Portrait (Bulfinch Press). He is not an objective outsider, but his images provide a rare combination of chronological sweep and intimacy. TIME picked the following photographs from Butler's portfolio...
...project began in April 2001, when the firm Shepley Bulfinch Richardson Abbott began developing the plans for the project, and the design was created by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the firm that brought HBS the popular Spangler Center...
Early records describe the South End as a bloody execution site for hardened criminals of the seventeenth century. One hundred and fifty years later it had become a genteel area of rustling leaves and gracious houses, before Charles Bulfinch designed a formal layout for the area in 1801. The connecting row houses for which the Back Bay is famous were pioneered here, amid quiet fountains and charming parks...