Silverman signed a lease on an office in the first building Adams was opening: the Showplace (2 Henry Adams St.). And he still has a space there. "I'm the oldest living tenant," he quips.

The H-shaped south building turns its garden spaces outward with a 40-foot-wide, public park-like paseo to create the impression of multiple, smaller buildings lining Henry Adams and Rhode Island ...

Henry Adams was a very curious man — curious both in the sense that he wanted to learn all he could about how America operated and curious because he disliked his own time and, in some ways ...