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Even when the city's private developers build, they follow the same thinking. Recent additions to the largely residential Back Bay section include two fine works by Architects I.M. Pei & Partners. One is the much maligned John Hancock tower, most famous for its history of falling windowpanes (which have now been completely replaced by stronger glass at a cost of $7 million). The other is the Christian Science Center, which consists of starkly sculptural buildings grouped around Mary Baker Eddy's domed Beaux-Arts Mother Church. Both projects are especially noteworthy for their careful blending...
...Declaration of Independence is a triumph not only for Hancock but for the whole Boston delegation; yet their triumph is shadowed by the absence of James Otis. Accused of treason by the British customs commissioners in 1769, he publicly denounced them as liars. One of them attacked him with a cutlass and delivered such a severe blow to the head that Otis has since lost his reason. He was awarded ?2,000 in damages, but has never successfully resumed his career. He now lives in retirement, with intermittent spells of insanity...
July 2. Independence voted by 12 to 0 (New York still abstaining). July 4. Declaration of Independence approved "without one dissenting colony," signed by Congress President John Hancock and ordered "proclaimed in each of the united states...
...advertisement in the Boston Gazette made it sound like a holiday: "All those jolly fellows who love their country and want to make their fortune at one stroke, to repair immediately to the Rendezvous at the head of Hancock's Wharf, where they will be received with a hearty welcome by a number of brave fellows there assembled and treated with that excellent liquor called grog ..." When a band of fortune hunters gathers in response to such a lure, these "brave fellows" are soon recruited into the growing forces of legalized buccaneers whom General Washington calls "our rascally privateersmen...
After returning two years later, in 1769, he soon attracted all the patronage he could handle, and his reputation spread far. Last month he moved himself and his growing family (two children) to Philadelphia. Among his new commissions, the most impressive is undoubtedly the one he received from John Hancock to paint the portraits of General George Washington and his wife Martha. Several weeks ago, even in the midst of dealing with Congress, the general granted him two sittings in his house on Arch Street. Mrs. Washington has also sat twice for him. Though the portraits are far from finished...