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Copley Square, named for painter John Singleton Copley, is a public square in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, bounded by Boylston Street, Clarendon Street, St. James Avenue, and Dartmouth Street. ==Architecture== The Square has a number and variety of important architectural works that have been built there, many of them official landmarks. Prominent structures still standing include: * Old South Church (1873), by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears in the Venetian Gothic Revival style. *Trinity Church (1877, Romanesque Revival), considered H. H. Richardson's ''tour de force.'' * Boston Public Library (1895), by Charles Follen McKim in a revival of Italian Renaissance style, incorporates artworks by John Singer Sargent, Edwin Austin Abbey, Daniel Chester French, and others. * The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel (1912) by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in the Beaux-Arts style (on the site of the original Museum of Fine Arts). *The John Hancock Tower (1976, late Modernist) by Henry N. Cobb, at 790 feet (241 m) New England's tallest building. * The Bostix Kiosk (1992, Postmodernist), at the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston streets, by Graham Gund with inspiration from Parisian park pavilions.〔Mary Melvin Petronella, ed., ''Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours'' (Northeastern University Press, 2004), 69, (available onlime ), access September 9, 2012〕 Among buildings no longer standing are: * Chauncy Hall School (c.1874, demolished 1908), a tall-gabled High Victorian brick school building on Boylston St. near Dartmouth St. * Museum of Fine Arts (1876, demolished 1910) by John Hubbard Sturgis and Charles Brigham in the Gothic Revival style, was the first purpose-built public art museum in the world. * S.S. Pierce Building, (1887, demolished 1958) by S. Edwin Tobey, "no masterpiece of architecture, () great urban design. A heap of dark Romanesque masonry..."〔Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwarker. Coming into Copley. Boston Globe. Mar 26, 2006. p. BGM 16.〕 * Hotel Westminster, Trinity Place, by Henry E. Cregier of Chicago in 1897. Now the northeast corner of the new John Hancock Building. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Copley Square」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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