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Article: KENMORE SQUARE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1990
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ROBERT CAMPBELL IS A PRACTICING ARCHITECT IN CAMBRIDGE AND
THE ARCHITECTURE CRITIC OF THE GLOBE. PETER VANDERWARKER,
AN ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHER AND WRITER, IS THE AUTHOR OF
BOSTON THEN AND NOW.
Except for the Citgo sign in the sky and a mob of marathoners on
the earth, not much has changed in the later of these two views of
Kenmore Square. The first dates from 1914 and the second from this
past Patriots Day.
Kenmore Square has always been a kind of junction box in the
street plan of Boston. It's the place where three big roads meet:
Beacon Street (right foreground), Commonwealth Avenue (left
foreground), and Brookline Avenue (disappearing to the right). For
anyone ...