And This Is Good Old Boston

Toy Theatre, from the BPL Flickr photo group. Toy/Copley Theatre, across from Stuart street, 1917. The photograph above, with the int...

In 2009, I published an article on my Remember Jamaica Plain blog about the Boit family . The hook for the post was John Singer Sargent'...

In an effort to learn more about the history of movie theatres in Boston, I searched out The Theatres of Boston , by Donald C. King. Much of...

The book is subtitled The Boston Athenaeum Collection, and presents 128 prints, about half black and white and half color. It features Bosto...

Boylston Market, BPL Flickr photo group. No overhead wires for streetcars, so perhaps 1880s. Boylston Market was designed by Charles Bullfin...

The original Continental Clothing House building, at Washington and Harvard streets. The Continental Clothing House, or Freeland, Loomis a...

The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London in 1844, with the first American chapter opened in Boston in 1851. It was le...