List of public art in Boston

List of public artworks in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

This list features two sortable tables of art works on permanent public display in Boston, Massachusetts and its neighborhoods

It comprises works of public art, including sculpture, relief panels, tablets and fountains with sculptural features, accessible in an outdoor public spaces or inside state or federally owned public buildings. This does not include artwork visible inside museums or visible only on private property.

This table is not complete and most likely will not include recent installations. Please feel welcome to contribute/add these in the Additional Artworks area below.

## Usage

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The tables' columns (except for note, Type and Image) are sortable by pressing the arrows symbols. The following gives an overview of what information is included in the table.

* Name: The artwork's commonly used name or name as it has been entered on its Wikipedia page (where it has one)
* Artist: name of the primary artist(s) or designer(s) if known.
* Year: variously the artwork's installation date; date of creation; or date of reinstallation at its current location
* Location: the street, park, intersection or plaza where the artwork is currently located
* Material: the main material(s) from which the artwork is constructed
* Dimensions: the approximate dimensions of the artwork, where known
* Notes: additional information, including ownership or known repairwork
* Image: a picture of the artwork, where available

This page seeks to be an aggregate list of general facts. For information on individual sculptures, please visit the individual artwork's pages.

## Artworks

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### City of Boston

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Includes: Back Bay, Boston, North End, South End, Boston

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The Embrace | Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group  | 2023  | Boston Common | bronze  | height: 6.7 m (22 ft)  |  |
George Thorndike Angell Memorial | Peabody & Stearns  | 1912  | Post Office Square, Boston

Angell Memorial Plaza

| terrazzo; gilded copper; steel.  | h. 60 ft. x W. 10 ft.  |  |
Appeal to the Great Spirit | Cyrus Edwin Dallin | 1908  | Boston Museum of Fine Arts | bronze  | sculpture: 290 cm × 250 cm × 300 cm (114" × 100" × 120")  | Boston Museum of Fine Arts  |
Aristides Statue |  |  | Louisburg Square |  | height: 1.8 m (6 ft)  |  |
Army Nurses Memorial | Bela Pratt |  | Massachusetts State House |  | sculpture: 2.5 m (96")  |  |
Red Auerbach Statue | Lloyd Lillie | 1985  | Quincy Market | bronze  | 5 ft. x 6 ft. x 2 ft. 3 in  |  |
Bagheera Fountain | Lilian Swann Saarinen | 1939  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 32" x 16" x 16"

plinth: 57" high, 60" diameter.

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John Barry Tablet | John Francis Paramino | 1949,

1977 copy

| Boston Common | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Beacon Hill Monument |  | 1898 rebuilt  | Massachusetts State House, Ashburton Park  | granite; slate, Bronze  |  |  |
Boston Common Tablet | R. Clipston Sturgis | 1913  | Boston Common | slate, granite  | 15 x 5 x 20 ft  |  |
Boston Irish Famine Memorial | Robert Shure | 1998  | Washington Street and School Street plaza  |  |  |  |
Boston Massacre Monument | Robert Kraus | 1889  | Boston Common | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Boston Public Garden Flagpole Base | William D. Austen | 1921  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 6 x 4 x 4 ft

plinth: 3.5 x 7 x 7 ft.

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Boston Women's Memorial | Meredith Bergmann | 2003  | Commonwealth Avenue Mall | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Boy and Bird Fountain | Bashka Paeff | 1934,

recast
1977, 1992

| Boston Public Garden | bronze  |  |  |
Brewer Fountain | Michel Joseph Napoléon Liénard | 1868  | Park Street and Tremont Street corner  | bronze; granite  | height: 22 ft (6.7 m)  |  |
Phillips Brooks Statue | Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Frances Grimes  | 1910  | Copley Square | bronze; granite; marble  |  |  |
Robert Burns Statue | Henry Hudson Kitson | 1920, relocated 1975  | Back Bay Fens | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 108" x 60"x 60"

plinth: 56" x 48" x 62"

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Thomas Cass Statue | Richard E. Brooks | 1899  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite (red beach Maine)  | sculpture: 8 ft. x 2 ft. 4 in. x 2 ft. 4 in.

plinth: 6 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. 8 in

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William Ellery Channing Statue | Herbert Adams | 1903  | Boston Public Garden, exterior wall  | bronze; granite (Milford); marble  | sculpture: 8 ft. 5 in. x 45 in. x 46 in.

plinth: 25 ft. x 24 ft. x 86 in.

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Charlestown Civil War Memorial | Martin Milmore | 1872  | Winthrop Square | Granite  |  |  |
China Trade Gate | David Judelson | 1988  | Chinatown (Beach Street)  |  |  |  |
City Carpet | Lilli Ann Killen Rosenberg | 1983  | Old City Hall | Mosaic: ceramic;

bronze; stone; brick; concrete

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Bust of Patrick Collins | Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, Henry Hudson Kitson | 1908  | Commonwealth Avenue Mall | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Christopher Columbus Statue, Beacon Hill |  | 1850  | Louisburg Square | marble  |  |  |
Christopher Columbus Statue, North End | Andrew J. Mazzola | 1979  | Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park | marble; granite  |  |  |
John Singleton Copley Statue | Lewis Cohen | 2002  | Copley Square | bronze  |  |  |
James Michael Curley Statues | Lloyd Lillie | 1980  | Faneuil Hall | bronze  |  |  |
Edwin Upton Curtis Memorial |  | 1924  | Charles River Esplanade |  |  |  |
Bust of Richard Cushing | James Rosati | 1980-1  | Cardinal Cushing Memorial Park | Bronze; Granite (red)  |  |  |
Declaration of Independence Tablet | John Francis Paramino | 1925  | Boston Common | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Tony DeMarco Statue | Harry Weber | 2012  | North End | bronze  |  |  |
Democratic Donkey |  | 1998 installed  | Old City Hall | bronze  |  |  |
Charles Devens Statue | Olin Levi Warner | 1894  | Charles River Esplanade | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 7 x 3 x 3 ft

plinth: 7 x 3 x 3 ft

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Dolphins of the Sea | Katharine Lane Weems | 1977  | New England Aquarium | bronze  |  |  |
Mary Dyer Statue | Sylvia Shaw Judson | 1959  | Massachusetts State House | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Echo of the Waves | Susumu Shingu | 1981  | New England Aquarium | painted steel; Teflon coated fiberglass  |  |  |
Charles Eliot Memorial |  | 1831  | Charles River Esplanade | granite  |  |  |
John Endecott Statue | C. Paul Jennewein | 1936  | Forsyth Park | granite (white, red)  |  |  |
Leif Erikson Statue | Anne Whitney | 1887  | Commonwealth Avenue Mall | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Ether Monument | William Robert Ware or John Quincy Adams Ward | 1868  | Boston Public Garden | granite  | height: 12 m (40 ft)  |  |
Edward Everett Statue | William Wetmore Story | 1866  | Richardson Park  | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 7 x 4 x 2.5 ft.

plinth: 7 x 5.5 x 5.5 ft

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David Farragut Statue | Henry Hudson Kitson | 1891  | Marine Park  | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Arthur Fiedler Memorial | Ralph Helmick | 1984  | Charles River Esplanade | aluminum, granite  |  |  |
Benjamin Franklin Statue | Richard Saltonstall Greenough; Thomas Ball  | 1856  | Old City Hall |  | sculpture: 100" x 26". x 26"

plinth: 111" x 90" x 90"

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The Founders Memorial | John Francis Paramino | 1930  | Boston Common | bronze; granite  |  |  |
William Lloyd Garrison Statue | Olin Levi Warner | 1886  | Commonwealth Avenue Mall | bronze; granite (Quincy)  | sculpture: 7 ft. x 4 ft. x 6 ft. 4 in.

plinth: 4 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. x 6 ft. 4 in.

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John Glover Statue | Martin Milmore | 1875  | Commonwealth Avenue Mall | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 8 ft. x 3 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 6 in

plinth: 6 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. 6 in.

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Marvin E. Goody Memorial | Joan Goody | 1984  | Boston Public Garden | granite (red, Dakota mahogany)  |  |  |
Edward Everett Hale Statue | Bela Pratt | 1913  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Alexander Hamilton Statue | William Rimmer | 1865  | Commonwealth Avenue Mall | granite  | sculpture:10 ft. x 3 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 4 in.  |  |
Harbor Fog | Ross Miller | 2009  | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway | steel; bronze; granite; LED lights  |  |  |
Joseph Hooker equestrian statue | Daniel Chester French; Edward Clark Potter | 1903  | Massachusetts State House, Ashburton Park  | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial | Ted Clausen; Peter White  | 1997  | Commonwealth Avenue Mall | granite  |  |  |
Hungarian Revolution Memorial | E. Gyuri Hollosy | 1986  | Liberty Square Park  | bronze; granite; steel  |  |  |
Anne Hutchinson Statue | Cyrus Edwin Dallin | 1915  | Massachusetts State House | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 98" x 52" x 30"

plinth: 78" x 66" x 48"

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Indian Hunter | Paul Manship |  | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | bronze; granite  |  | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
John F. Kennedy Statue | Isabel McIlvain | 1990  | Massachusetts State House | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 8 ft. 2 in. x 3 ft. x 18 in.

plinth: 27 x 72 x 87.5 in

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Tadeusz Kościuszko Statue | Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson | 1927  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 10 ft. x 32 in. x 27 in

plinth: 6 ft. x 6 ft. x 5 ft. 7 in.

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Japanese Lantern |  | 1587  | Boston Public Garden | granite  |  | gifted to the city by Bunkio Matsuki in 1904  |
Pope John Paul II Memorial | Frank Chalfant Gaylord, II | 1981  | Boston Common | granite  | 53 .5" x 32" x 8.25"  |  |
Henry Cabot Lodge Statue | Raymond Averill Porter | 1932  | Massachusetts State House | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 96 x 30 x 28 1/2 in.,

plinth: 73 x 56 x 53 1/2 in

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Lotta Fountain | Katharine Lane Weems; J. W. Ames and E. S. Dodge  | 1939  | Charles River Esplanade | granite  |  |  |
Make Way for Ducklings | Nancy Schön | 1987  | Boston Public Garden | bronze  |  |  |
Horace Mann Statue | Emma Stebbins | 1865  | Massachusetts State House | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial | Robert Shure | 2007  | Massachusetts State House, Ashburton Park  | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial | Michael Kenny | 2004  | Massachusetts State House, Ashburton Park  | granite  |  |  |
Samuel Eliot Morison Statue | Penelope Jencks | 1982  | Commonwealth Avenue Mall | bronze; granite  |  |  |
New England Holocaust Memorial | Stanley Saitowitz | 1995  | Carmen Park  | glass; steel  |  |  |
A Once and Future Shoreline | Ross Miller | 1996  | Faneuil Hall, west side  | granite  |  | City of Boston  |
Oneida Football Club Monument | Joseph Arthur Coletti | 1925  | Boston Common | marble  | tablet: 198 cm x 76.2 cm x 17.78 cm  |  |
John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial | Daniel Chester French | 1896  | Back Bay Fens | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Bobby Orr Statue | Harry Weber | 2010  | TD Garden | bronze  |  |  |
The Partisans | Andrzej Pitynski | 1983  | South Boston waterfront  | aluminum  |  |  |
George S. Patton Statue | James Earle Fraser | 1953  | Charles River Esplanade | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Wendell Phillips Statue | Daniel Chester French | 1915  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite (Stony Creek pink)  |  |  |
Poe Returning to Boston | Stefanie Rocknak | 2014  | Boylston Street and Charles Street, Edgar Allan Poe Square  |  |  |  |
Josiah Quincy III Statue | Thomas Ball | 1879  | Old City Hall |  |  |  |
Paul Revere equestrian statue | Cyrus Edwin Dallin | 1885, cast 1940  | Paul Revere Mall | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Bill Russell Statue | Ann Hirsch | 2013  | Boston City Hall Plaza | bronze  |  |  |
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Statue | Ivette Compagnion | 1973  | Commonwealth Avenue Mall | bronze; concrete  | sculpture: 10 ft. x 4 ft. 1 in. x 3 ft. 3 in  |  |
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | 1897  | Beacon Street | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Small Child Fountain | Mary E. Moore | 1929  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 28" x 21" x 17"  |  |
Soldiers and Sailors Monument | Martin Milmore | 1877  | Boston Common | granite; bronze  | column: 126 ft

plinth: 35 ft square

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Statler Fountain | Ulysses Anthony Ricci | 1930  | Statler Park  | bronze; granite  |  |  |
James J. and Helen Storrow Memorial |  | 1948  | Charles River Esplanade | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Charles Sumner Statue | Thomas Ball | 1878  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Temple Bell | Suzuki Magoemon | 1675  | Back Bay Fens | bronze, granite  | sculpture: 91 cm x 61 cm diameter, (36" x 24" diameter)

plinth: 109 cm x 81 cm x 81 cm (43" x 32" x 32")

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Thermopylae | Dimitri Hadzi | 1966  | Boston City Hall Plaza | bronze  | sculpture:12 ft. tall and 16 ft. wide  |  |
Maurice J. Tobin Statue | Emilius R. Ciampa | 1958  | Charles River Esplanade | bronze; granite  |  |  |
The Tortoise and the Hare | Nancy Schön | 1994  | Copley Square | bronze  |  |  |
Triton Babies Fountain | Anna Coleman Ladd | 1922  | Boston Public Garden | bronze, granite  |  |  |
Harriet Tubman Memorial) | Fern Cunningham | 1999  | South End; Harriet Tubman Park | bronze  |  |  |
David I. Walsh Statue | Joseph Arthur Coletti | 1954  | Charles River Esplanade | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 8 x 3 x 3 ft.  |  |
George Washington equestrian statue | Thomas Ball | 1869  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite  | sculpture: 22 x 6 x 15 ft

plinth: 16 x 8 x 15 ft.

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Daniel Webster Statue | Hiram Powers | 1859  | Massachusetts State House | bronze; granite  |  |  |
George Robert White Memorial | Daniel Chester French; Henry Bacon | 1924  | Boston Public Garden | bronze; granite  |  |  |
Kevin White Statue |  | 2006  | Faneuil Hall | bronze  |  |  |
John Winthrop Statue | Richard Saltonstall Greenough | 1873  | First Church in Boston | bronze; concrete  | sculpture: 7 ft. x 2 ft. 5 in. x 2 ft. 3 in.

plinth: 4 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. x 8 ft

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World War I Memorial | Albert Henry Atkins | 1922  | Adams Square  | granite  | sculpture: 8 x 12 x 1 ft  |  |
World War II Memorial, Fenway - Kenmore  | John Francis Paramino | 1948  | Back Bay Fens | bronze; granite  |  |  |

### Boston Neighborhoods

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Includes: Charlestown, East Boston, and Jamaica Plain (Cambridge has its own page)

Title  | Artist  | Year  | Location  | Material  | Dimensions  | Notes  | Image

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Death and the Sculptor | Daniel Chester French | 1889  | Jamaica Plain

Forest Hills Cemetery

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Firemen's Memorial | John A. Wilson | 1909  | Jamaica Plain

Forest Hills Cemetery

| bronze; granite  |  |  |
Madonna, Queen of the Universe | Arrigo Minerbi | 1954  | East Boston  | bronze, copper  | height: 10.6 m (35 ft)  |  |
Massachusetts Korean War Memorial | Robert Shure; Moisey S. Altshuler  | 1993  | Charlestown

Charlestown Naval Shipyard Park

| bronze; granite; brick  |  |  |
Donald McKay Memorial | Robert Shure | 2005  | East Boston

Bremen Street Park

| bronze; granite  |  |  |
William Prescott Statue | William Wetmore Story | 1881  | Charlestown, Monument Square | bronze; granite (Quincy)  | sculpture: 8 ft. x 4 ft. x 5 ft. 10 in.

plinth:74" x 64" x 70"

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial |  | 2009  | Charlestown

Green Street 42°13′32″N 71°02′18″W﻿ / ﻿42.22565°N 71.03824°W﻿ / 42.22565; -71.03824

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Joseph Warren Statue | Henry Dexter | 1857  | Charlestown

Monument Square

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World War II Memorial, Charlestown |  | 1946  | Charlestown

City Square Park

| granite  | height: 15 ft.  |  |

## Additional Artwork

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* Split Dodecahedron, 2012, Don Tellalian, Rose Kennedy Greenway
* Citgo sign, 1965, Kenmore Square
* Giant Milk Bottle by Arthur Gagner, 1934
* “Bunker Hill Monument” by Solomon Willard, 1842, Charlestown
* Rainbow gas tank (untitled, but often called the “Rainbow Swash”) by Corita Kent, 1971, Dorcester
* Roxbury Love Mural by Ricardo "Deme5" Gomez and Thomas “Kwest” Burns, 2014, spray paint, 17 ft. x 100 ft., Roxbury. Removed 2020.[1]

## References

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1. ^ Vaugn, Alyssa (July 24, 2020). "The Roxbury Love Mural Has Been Destroyed to Make Way for an Apartment Complex". Boston Magazine. Retrieved August 20, 2020.

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Public art in Boston

Works|

* Appeal to the Great Spirit
* Army Nurses Memorial
* Arthur Fiedler Memorial
* Bagheera Fountain
* Beacon Hill Monument
* Boston Common Tablet
* Boston Irish Famine Memorial
* Boston Massacre Monument
* Boston Public Garden Flagpole Base
* Boston Women's Memorial
* Boy and Bird Fountain
* Brewer Fountain
* Bust of Patrick Collins
* Bust of Richard Cushing
* Charles Eliot Memorial
* Charlestown Civil War Memorial
* Charlestown Vietnam Veterans Memorial
* China Trade Gate
* City Carpet
* Death and the Sculptor
* Declaration of Independence Tablet
* Democratic Donkey
* Dolphins of the Sea
* Dorchester Heights Monument
* Echo of the Waves
* Edwin Upton Curtis Memorial
* Emancipation
* Emancipation Memorial†
* The Embrace
* Ether Monument
* Firemen's Memorial
* The Founders Memorial
* George Robert White Memorial
* George Thorndike Angell Memorial
* Harbor Fog
* Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial
* Hungarian Revolution Memorial
* Indian Hunter
* James J. and Helen Storrow Memorial
* Japanese Lantern
* John Barry Tablet
* John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial
* Lotta Fountain
* Make Way for Ducklings
* Marvin E. Goody Memorial
* Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial
* Massachusetts Korean War Memorial
* Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial
* New England Holocaust Memorial
* Old North Memorial Garden
* A Once and Future Shoreline
* Oneida Football Club Monument
* Parkman Plaza
* The Partisans
* Pope John Paul II Memorial
* Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
* Small Child Fountain
* Soldiers and Sailors Monument
* Statler Fountain
* Temple Bell
* Thermopylae
* The Teammates
* The Tortoise and the Hare
* Triton Babies Fountain
* World War I Memorial
* World War II Memorial
* Charlestown
* Fenway–Kenmore

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* Aristides
* Red Auerbach
* William Francis Bartlett
* Phillips Brooks
* Robert Burns
* Thomas Cass
* Christopher Columbus
* Beacon Hill
* North End†
* William Ellery Channing
* John Singleton Copley
* James Michael Curley
* Tony DeMarco
* Charles Devens
* Mary Dyer
* John Endecott
* Leif Erikson
* Edward Everett
* David Farragut
* Benjamin Franklin
* William Lloyd Garrison
* John Glover
* Edward Everett Hale
* Alexander Hamilton
* Joseph Hooker
* Anne Hutchinson
* John F. Kennedy
* Tadeusz Kościuszko
* Henry Cabot Lodge
* Horace Mann
* Samuel Eliot Morison
* Bobby Orr
* George S. Patton
* Wendell Phillips
* William Prescott
* Josiah Quincy III
* Paul Revere
* Bill Russell
* Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
* Charles Sumner
* Maurice J. Tobin
* David I. Walsh
* Joseph Warren
* George Washington
* Daniel Webster
* Kevin White
* John Winthrop

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* Boston Art Commission
* Graffiti in Boston

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