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Geographic / Mass. / Boston / State St. / Birdseye Views / Large: Unmounted.
GUSN-195365
At the center of the view from 53 State Street is the Old State House and its balcony from which the Declaration of Independence was first read in Boston. The taller Ames Building, in view up Court Street, was the second tallest mason bearing-wall structure in the world (after the Monadnock Building in Chicago). The Ames was designed by Boston architects Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. The building directly in front of the Old State House, on Washington Street, is the Sears Building with the Rogers Building to the left of it. The building to the left of the Old State House is the First National Bank Building.
exterior views
capitols
public buildings
commercial buildings
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
intersections
streetscapes
skyscrapers
historic buildings
landmark buildings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000481
AccessID 707
Other identifier HNEDID-000481
1 photographic print
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7430.001
ca. 1891
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (photographer)
Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge (Architect)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Ames family
Court Street (Boston, Mass.)
State Street (Boston, Mass.)
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography
Freedom Trail (Boston, Mass.)
Item
Geographic / Mass. / Boston / State St. / Birdseye Views / Large: Unmounted.
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