BOSTON PANORAMA MAGAZINE

It's the great American success story: rising from the humblest of beginnings to achieve prestige and greatness. As such, Boston's chic Back Bay may well be the ultimate American neighborhood-classically beautiful brownstone residences, paired with block after block of high-end, glamorous retail space, on a stretch of land that was once a fetid marsh. Between 1857 and 1882, what we know as today's Back Bay was a tidewater flat for the Charles River. Gradually it was filled in, the largest part of a project that would more than double the size of the city. Once the swamp was gone, architect Arthur Gilman drew up the plans to build a largely uniform series of three- and four-story brownstones. The Back Bay is also home to some of Boston's architectural standouts-from the classic beauty of Trinity Church (built in 1877) and the Boston Public Library, to Boston's largest and most impressive modern skyscrapers, the 62-story John Hancock Tower and the Prudential Center, which houses offices, restaurants and shops.

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