A Once and Future Shoreline (orignal shoreline c. 1630), 1996
Artworks: Sculpture
Artist
Ross MillerCollection
Boston Art CommissionPreservation Organization
Boston Landmarks Commission
Artworks: Sculpture
Artist
Ross MillerCollection
Boston Art CommissionPreservation Organization
Boston Landmarks Commission
Materials
Bronze and GraniteDates
- Installed, 1996
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Description
Over the past 375 years, the site we now know as Faneuil Hall has been dramatically transformed, from salty tidal marsh to harbor wharf to active urban plaza. In order to build the original Faneuil Hall, the colonists filled in parts of the surrounding water with dirt, creating additional land. The site was expanded again several decades later. Numerous sections of the city's current land were created through landfill, including most of South Boston and the entire Back Bay. In fact, colonial Bos...
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Location
Congress St. & North St.
Boston, MA
United States
Boston, MA
United States
Located in Faneuil Hall Plaza.
Nearby Items
| Dock Square | 24 feet |  | ||
| Mayor Kevin Hagan White Park | 68 feet | | ||
| Mayor Kevin White | 75 feet | | ||
| Samuel Adams | 80 feet | | ||
| Wind Wind Wind | 168 feet | | ||
| Faneuil Hall | 208 feet | | ||
| North Street at Union Street | 225 feet | |
