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Our History and the Freedom Trail:
Wander down Newbury Street to the Boston Common to get to the Freedom Trail. This 3-mile tour of Boston's major historical attractions begins at the Boston Common (where witches were hung in the 1600's) and meanders to the waterfront and back.
Start at the State House atop Beacon Hill designed by Charles Bullfinch (guided tours available daily). The Old State House (site of the Boston Massacre in 1774); The Old North Church (from where the signal "One if by land, Two if by sea" originated); The U.S.S Constitution (better known as "Old Ironsides"; the Bunker Hill Monument ("Don't shoot 'til you see the whites of their eyes!"); the Old North Church (from where the signal "One if by land, Two if by sea" was flashed); Paul Revere's House and the oldest house in Boston; and the churches, meetinghouses, and burial grounds of historical Bostonian figures are some of the notable stops along the Freedom Trail.
Visit patrician homes on Beacon Hill. Several of these stately homes were part of the Underground Railroad, and can be visited on the African-American Heritage Trail that winds through Beacon Hill.
Copley Square, only two blocks away from the Newbury Guest House, is an architecture buff's dream. Forming a triangle bordering this square are H.R. Richardson's Trinity Church, the oldest public library in the country, The Boston Public Library, designed by the firm McKim, Mead & White and I.M Pei's John Hancock Tower, a wonder of modern architecture.
The Back Bay was built on a landfill over the Charles River in the 1700's. A walk along Commonwealth Avenue, fashioned after the grand boulevards of Paris is a study of architecture in Boston spanning the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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