From Dave Brigham:
Here are some random shots from a recent walk through part of Boston's Fenway neighborhood....
(This one stopped me in my tracks. From Wikipedia: "The New Riding Club is an historic building at 52 Hemenway Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1891 and designed by Willard T. Sears, The Riding Club is an example of Tudor Revival architecture. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Built to utilize the nearby bridle paths of Frederick Law Olmsted's Back Bay Fens, the building was acquired by the Badminton and Tennis Club in 1934, and the interior riding rink was converted to tennis courts. In 1985 the remaining stables were converted to residential apartments.)
(The former St. Stephen's Church, which was subsequently known as St. Ann's, is now the Fenway Center, a performance venue owned by nearby Northeastern University.)
(I don't know anything about The Alice, and I'd like to keep it that way.)
(Cool mural on the side of The Westland, a bar and grill a stone's throw from Symphony Hall. The place opened late last year after several years of starts and stops and name changes.)
(Completed in 1912, the Huntington Avenue YMCA complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to Wikipedia, the sign on the roof, an incandescent bulb block letter sign, is the only one of its kind left in New England. For another YMCA story, see April 14, 2014, "Coincidence?" about a visit to Springfield, Mass., that took on deeper meaning after my father passed away.)
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