The Fairmont Copley Plaza (w/ John Hancock Tower at left) opened in 1912; Frederick Kerry, paternal grandfather of Senator John Kerry, committed suicide here in 1921; in the 1920s, John Singer Sargent kept rooms here where he painted portraits
The Cooper-Frost-Austin House, built in 1681, is the oldest house in Cambridge; the city of 116,000, home to Harvard and MIT, has 57% of its residents possessing at least a bachelor's degree