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An Architecture Walk

Greater Boston is an open-air museum of architecture — a Le Corbusier, a Richardson, an Aalto, a Gehry, all within a few miles. Read the region through its most consequential buildings.

Stops
7
Distance
5.8 mi
On foot
118 min walking
From
Trinity Church, Boston → Ray and Maria Stata Center
  1. 1
    Trinity Church, Boston
    Building / Landmark · 1829

    Trinity Church, Boston

    H. H. Richardson’s 1877 masterpiece — the building that named a style.

  2. 21 min walk on
    2
    Boston Public Library
    Building / Landmark · 1895

    Boston Public Library

    McKim’s ‘palace for the people’ across Copley Square.

  3. 2.6 mi on
    3
    Memorial Hall
    Building / Landmark · 1878

    Memorial Hall

    Harvard’s polychrome Gothic colossus.

  4. 3 min walk on
    4
    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    Building / Landmark

    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

    The only Le Corbusier building in North America.

  5. 1.5 mi on
    5
    Baker House (Alvar Aalto)
    Building / Landmark

    Baker House (Alvar Aalto)

    Alvar Aalto’s 1948 brick wave on the Charles.

  6. 4 min walk on
    6
    Kresge Auditorium & MIT Chapel
    Building / Landmark · 1955

    Kresge Auditorium & MIT Chapel

    Saarinen’s one-eighth sphere and its windowless chapel.

  7. 6 min walk on
    7
    Ray and Maria Stata Center
    Building / Landmark

    Ray and Maria Stata Center

    End at Gehry’s controversial, beloved, leaking landmark.