The buildings were constructed out of brick in 1718 after a large fire in 1711 destroyed nearly 100 buildings in the area, ...

Boston recently received funding to raise awareness about its existing monuments and introduce new ones across the city. The Mellon Foundation, which developed “The Monuments Project,” is ...

More than 37,000 American flags lay on the Boston Common in honor of fallen service members who called Massachusetts home.

Sixty years after his murder on Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X has yet to be recognized with a monument in Boston, where he lived as a teen in the 1940s and 50s. The city has a park and a boulevard bearing ...

The flags have been planted every year since 2010 in memory and honor of every man and woman who gave his or her life ...

The initiative, dubbed “Un-monument | Re-monument | De-Monument: Transforming Boston,” is supported by a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project, which aims to create ...

Amid its spat with the Wu administration, the Boston Landmarks Commission is being accused of overreaching its authority by pushing to designate the interior of a private property a historic ...

To see families come and bear witness to the unveiling of Boston’s newest monument: the “Embrace.” The wind blew parts of King’s speech off the podium and she said her grandparents must be ...

But when his application was selected out of 125 artists and architects to design a new monument in Boston dedicated to the civil rights icons, he was shocked. “When I submitted the proposal ...