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
Church of the Covenant, an 1867 Gothic Revival masterpiece, has one of the largest collections of liturgical windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the country; its 236 foot steeple is the tallest in Boston