Completed in 1871, a year before HH Richardson began work on Copley Square's Trinity Church, the First Baptist Church is a similar mix of stone and wood surfaces. Richardson...

Literary giants EE Cummings, Eugene O'Neill and Anne Sexton are all buried here, as is the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. The mile-long Contemporary Sculpture Path,...

So named because the adjacent Park Street Church was built on the site of a pre-Revolution storehouse for grain and supplies, the Granary Burying Ground is the third oldest...

Although the original King's Chapel - a small wooden structure - was built in the 1680s, the present one was designed by America's first architect, Peter Harrison, in 1754. The...

This is the final resting place for Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Bulfinch and some 86,000 others. In fact, the cemetery is now so full that locals...

One of the country's first cemeteries, the Old Burying Ground contains the remains of several early Puritan settlers as well as Revolutionary War veterans and victims.

Originally called Christ Church in Boston, the city's oldest church was built in 1723, its design inspired by Sir Christopher Wren's London churches. It played a critical role...

An imposing presence on Hanover Street, this Bulfinch-designed church wasn't built from scratch, but remodelled from an existing structure in 1804. Shortly thereafter, the...

The unabashedly ornate Trinity Church is the visual centrepiece of Copley Square. And now that a much-needed, $47 million restoration project is complete, its interior murals...