The document lists and describes 20 famous landmarks in Boston, including Fenway Park, the oldest baseball park in the city; the Freedom Trail, a 2.5 mile path passing 16 historic locations; and Old North Church, where the famous "one if by land, two if by sea" signal is said to have been sent during the American Revolution. Other landmarks mentioned are the Prudential Tower, Faneuil Hall, the Paul Revere House, USS Constitution, the Bunker Hill Monument, Trinity Church, and Copley Square. The landmarks cover a variety of sites significant to Boston's history, sports, and architecture.
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Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a baseball
park located in Boston,
Massachusetts, at 4
Yawkey Way near
Kenmore Square. Since
1912, it has been the
location for the Boston
Red Sox, the city's Major
League Baseball franchise.
It is the oldest ballpark in
MLB.
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Freedom Trail
The Freedom Trail is a 2.5-
mile-long path through
downtown Boston,
Massachusetts that passes
by 16 locations significant
to the history of the
United States.
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Old North Church
Old North Church, at 193
Salem Street, in the North
End of Boston, is the
location from which the
famous "One if by land,
and two if by sea" signal is
said to have been sent.
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Prudential Tower
The Prudential Tower, also
known as the Prudential
Building or, colloquially,
The Pru, is an
International Style
skyscraper in Boston,
Massachusetts.
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Faneuil Hall
Faneuil Hall, located near
the waterfront and today's
Government Center, in
Boston, Massachusetts,
has been a marketplace
and a meeting hall since
1743.
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Paul Revere House
The Paul Revere House
was the colonial home of
American patriot Paul
Revere during the time of
the American Revolution.
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USS Constitution USS Constitution is a
wooden-hulled, three-
masted heavy frigate of
the United States Navy,
named by President
George Washington after
the Constitution of the
United States of America.
Launched in 1797,
Constitution was one of
six original frigates
authorized for
construction by the Naval
Act of 1794 and the third
constructed.
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Bunker Hill Monument
The Bunker Hill
Monument was erected to
commemorate the Battle
of Bunker Hill, which was
among the first major
battles between British
and Patriot forces in the
American Revolutionary
War, fought there June 17,
1775.
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Old State House
The Old State House is a
historic building in
Boston, Massachusetts, at
the intersection of
Washington and State
Streets.
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Massachusetts State House
The Massachusetts State
House, also known as the
Massachusetts Statehouse
or the New State House, is
the state capitol and seat
of government for the
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, located in
the Beacon
Hill/Downtown
neighborhood of Boston.
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Trinity Church
Trinity Church in the City
of Boston, located in the
Back Bay of Boston,
Massachusetts, is a parish
of the Episcopal Diocese
of Massachusetts. The
congregation, currently
standing at approximately
3,000 households, was
founded in 1733.
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Old South Church
Old South Church in
Boston, Massachusetts, is
a historic United Church
of Christ congregation
first organized in 1669.
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John Hancock Tower
200 Clarendon, and
colloquially known as The
Hancock, is a 60-story,
790-foot skyscraper in
Boston. The tower was
designed by Henry N.
Cobb of the firm I. M. Pei
& Partners and was
completed in 1976.
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Nichols House Museum
The Nichols House
Museum is a museum at
55 Mount Vernon Street
on Beacon Hill in Boston,
Massachusetts. The house
in which it is located was
designed by the architect
Charles Bulfinch, and
built by Jonathan Mason,
the politician, in 1804.
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Park Street Church
The Park Street Church in
downtown Boston,
Massachusetts is an active
Conservative
Congregational church
with 2,000 in Sunday
attendance and around
1,000 members at the
corner of Tremont Street
and Park Street.
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The First Church of Christ, Scientist
The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, also known as
The Mother Church, is the
administrative
headquarters and the
mother church of the
Church of Christ,
Scientist, also known as
the Christian Science
church.
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Back Bay
Back Bay is an officially
recognized neighborhood
of Boston, Massachusetts.
It is most famous for its
rows of Victorian
brownstone homes â
considered one of the best
preserved examples of
19th-century
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The Fens
The Fens, sometimes
called Back Bay Fens, is a
parkland and urban wild
in Boston, Massachusetts,
in the United States.
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Skywalk Observatory
Sky-high vantage point
with an audio tour &
sweeping 360-degree
views of greater Boston &
beyond.
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Copley Square
Copley Square, named for
painter John Singleton
Copley, is a public square
in Boston's Back Bay
neighborhood, bounded
by Boylston Street,
Clarendon Street, St.
James Avenue, and
Dartmouth Street.