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Plate V · i · a · The City

Boston

One house, built around a courtyard, and a January cold that improves it considerably.

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A Boston street of brownstone houses at winter dusk, bare trees and wet pavement
Plate V · i · a · The Fenway, January dusk

A woman built a Venetian palace in a Boston marsh, filled it, and forbade anyone to move a thing. Nobody has.

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Closed Tuesdays. The courtyard is worth arriving for.

The entries

One entry. I have stood in it, in January, and would go back tomorrow.
Notes for Boston

Go in January. The courtyard is glassed and planted and warm while the city outside is doing its worst, and the contrast is half the experience. I have never found it crowded in winter, which cannot be said of April.

Nothing here is labelled in the way you expect, and that is deliberate — the arrangement is the exhibit. Resist the urge to look everything up until afterwards.

Boston is three and a half hours from New York on the train, which makes this page and the next one a single week rather than two trips. Do them in that order; the Gardner sets the ear for everything after it.

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