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Top 20 famous Landmarks in BOSTON

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Top 20 famous Landmarks in BOSTON

Fenway Park

Fenway Park is a baseball park located

in Boston, Massachusetts, at 4 Yawkey Way near Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has

been the location for the Boston Red Sox,

the city's Major League Baseball

franchise. It is the oldest ballpark in

MLB.

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Freedom TrailThe Freedom Trail is a

2.5-mile-long path through downtown

Boston, Massachusetts that

passes by 16 locations significant to the

history of the United States.

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Old North ChurchOld North Church, at 193 Salem Street, in

the North End of Boston, is the location

from which the famous "One if by land, and two if by

sea" signal is said to have been sent.

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Prudential Tower

The Prudential Tower, also known as the

Prudential Building or, colloquially, The Pru,

is an International Style skyscraper in

Boston, Massachusetts.

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Faneuil HallFaneuil Hall, located near the waterfront

and today's Government Center,

in Boston, Massachusetts, has been a marketplace and a meeting hall

since 1743.

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Paul Revere House

The Paul Revere House was the

colonial home of American patriot Paul

Revere during the time of the American

Revolution.

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USS Constitution USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States

Navy, named by President George

Washington after the Constitution of the

United States of America. Launched in

1797, Constitution was one of six original frigates authorized for

construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed.

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Bunker Hill Monument The Bunker Hill

Monument was erected to

commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was among the

first major battles between British and Patriot forces in the

American Revolutionary War,

fought there June 17, 1775.

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Old State House

The Old State House is a historic building

in Boston, Massachusetts, at the

intersection of Washington and State

Streets.

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Massachusetts State House

The Massachusetts State House, also

known as the Massachusetts

Statehouse or the New State House, is the state capitol and seat of government

for the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts, located in the Beacon

Hill/Downtown neighborhood of

Boston.

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Trinity ChurchTrinity Church in the

City of Boston, located in the Back Bay of

Boston, Massachusetts, is a

parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The

congregation, currently standing at approximately 3,000

households, was founded in 1733.

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Old South Church

Old South Church in Boston,

Massachusetts, is a historic United

Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669.

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John Hancock Tower200 Clarendon, and

colloquially known as The Hancock, is a 60-

story, 790-foot skyscraper in Boston.

The tower was designed by Henry N. Cobb of the firm I. M.

Pei & Partners and was completed in

1976.

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Nichols House Museum The Nichols House

Museum is a museum at 55 Mount Vernon

Street on Beacon Hill in Boston,

Massachusetts. The house in which it is

located was designed by the architect

Charles Bulfinch, and built by Jonathan

Mason, the politician, in 1804.

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Park Street ChurchThe Park Street

Church in downtown Boston,

Massachusetts is an active Conservative

Congregational church with 2,000 in Sunday attendance and around 1,000 members at the

corner of Tremont Street and Park

Street.

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The First Church of Christ, Scientist

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, also known as The Mother

Church, is the administrative

headquarters and the mother church of the

Church of Christ, Scientist, also known

as the Christian Science church.

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Back BayBack Bay is an

officially recognized neighborhood of

Boston, Massachusetts. It is most famous for its rows of Victorian

brownstone homes — considered one of the

best preserved examples of 19th-

century

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The Fens

The Fens, sometimes called Back Bay Fens,

is a parkland and urban wild in Boston, Massachusetts, in the

United States.

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Skywalk Observatory

Sky-high vantage point with an audio

tour & sweeping 360-degree views of

greater Boston & beyond.

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Copley SquareCopley Square, named

for painter John Singleton Copley, is a

public square in Boston's Back Bay

neighborhood, bounded by Boylston

Street, Clarendon Street, St. James

Avenue, and Dartmouth Street.