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 yellow tang is common in Hawaii and is a popular aquarium fish; up to 70% of yellow tangs for aquariums were sourced from Hawaii until a 2021 export ban took effect
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
There are 5283 points of light in Starlight which graces the rotunda of this former 1932 neo-Georgian home; using state of the art technology, the piece needs minimal energy and generates virtually no heat
I've visited the 9/11 Memorial a couple of times so skipped it on this trip; One World Trade Center (ie Freedom Tower) is still jaw-dropping as the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere (the same architect designed Willis Tower and Burj Khalifa)