The First Church of Christ, Scientist is considered the Mother Church for the Christian Science church and was completed in 1894 with major additions in 1906; it boasts one of the world's largest pipe organs and has a sanctuary that seats 3000
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