Boston: Getting into the Details

After 5 weeks of complete immersion in Boston’s history and architecture, I have passed the written and the oral exams to become a Boston By Foot guide. Now I can concentrate on learning my tour. And by “my tour” I mean the Victorian Back Bay tour, which I signed up to give for the first time on June 7th.

I have been enjoying looking through old photographs of Boston uploaded by the Boston Public Library. The Trinity Church in Copley Square was completed in 1877, but at the time it did not look the same as we know it today. The following photos show Trinity Church before the western porch was added in 1897. At the time, the towers above the western entrance were also replaced. In these photographs you can see the church with the original entrance towers.

Stereograph of Trinity Church taken circa 1875

This stereograph of Trinity Church is not dated, but I dare to guess that it was also taken circa 1875

This photo of Trinity Church was taken in August, 1888, and there are no towers above the western entrance.

Trinity Church today as seen on a postcard