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Article: BOSTON CITY HALL A CONCRETE SARGASSO SEA
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 3, 1992
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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.
That fortress with the flags in front, shoving its way in from
the left side of the new photo, is Boston City Hall. City Hall and
its plaza swept away the delicate European swirl of narrow streets we
see at the left of the old photo, which was made around 1920.
Little remains now except a curve, the arc of Cornhill Street,
once Boston's bookselling center. Cornhill itself is gone, drowned
in the immense Sargasso Sea of City Hall Plaza. But its shape
remains impressed on a fan-shaped ...