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The Chavannes Gallery at the McKim Building with murals painted by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Public_Library


For all these reasons, the historian David McCullough has described the Boston Public Library as one of the five most important libraries in the United States, the others being the federal Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the university libraries of Harvard and Yale.




Josiah Quincy Jr. anonymously donated $5,000 to begin funding a new library. Quincy made the donation while he was mayor of Boston. Indirectly, John Jacob Astor, businessman and philanthropist, also influenced the establishment of a public library in Boston. At the time of his death, Astor bequeathed $400,000 to New York to establish a public library there.
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Chinatown, Boston (Cantonese: 唐人街; Jyutping: Tong4jan4gaai1) is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the only surviving historic ethnic Chinese enclave in New England since the demise of the Chinatownsin Providence, Rhode Island and Portland, Maineafter the 1950s. Because of the high population of Asians and Asian Americans living in this area of Boston, there is an abundance of Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants located in Chinatown. It is one of the most densely populated residential areas in Boston and serves as the largest center of its East Asian and Southeast Asian cultural life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Boston
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City Hall Boston, Massachusetts
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Old Suffolk County Courthouse and Boston's City Hall 1841 to 1865
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Old City Hall, c. 1865
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faneuil_Hall&wprov=rarw1

Faneuil Hall (/ˈfænjəl/ or /ˈfænəl/; previously /ˈfʌnəl/) is a marketplace and meeting hall located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in 1742,[2] it was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain.
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1789 engraving of Faneuil Hall
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1839 engraving of Faneuil Hall
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Boston City Hall in February 2012

Is brutalism architecture very inspiring???


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall

Boston City Hall is the seat of city government of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the offices of the mayor of Boston and the Boston City Council. The current hall was built in 1968 to assume the functions of the Old City Hall.[2]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M._House

Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 – March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, and an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. He was known as Colonel House, although his title was honorary and he had performed no military service.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Delta_Phi

Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ; commonly known as Alpha Delt, AD, ADPhi, A-Delt, or ADP) is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity. Alpha Delta Phi was originally founded as a literary society by Samuel Eells in 1832 at Hamilton Collegein Clinton, New York. Its more than 50,000 alumni include former presidents and senators of the United States, and justices of the Supreme Court.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alpha_Delta_Phi_members

Alpha Delta Phi is a social fraternity located in colleges and university in North America. It has both collegiate and honorary members. Following are some of its notable members.
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Columbia is the capital city of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 census, it is the second-most populous city in South Carolina.[7] The city serves as the county seatof Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. It is the center of the Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 858,302 in 2023, and is the 70th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States.[5]The name Columbia is a poetic term used for the United States, derived from the name of Christopher Columbus, who explored for the Spanish Crown. Columbia is often abbreviated as Cola, leading to its nickname as "Soda City".

Considerable argument occurred over the name for the new city. According to published accounts, Senator Gervais said he hoped that "in this town we should find refuge under the wings of COLUMBIA", for that was the name which he wished it to be called. One legislator insisted on the name "Washington", but "Columbia" won by a vote of 11–7 in the state senate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_South_Carolina
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Columbia in ruins after burning at the end of the Civil War, c. 1865
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Ruins of the state armory Columbia 1865.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Charleston_earthquake

The 1886 Charleston earthquake in South Carolina occurred about 9:50 p.m. local time August 31. It caused 60 deaths and $5–6 million ($186.51 million in 2023) in damage to 2,000 buildings in the Southeastern United States. It is one of the most powerful and damaging earthquakes to hit the East Coast of the United States.[3]
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