Art and Architecture Tour of the Boston Public Library (CLASS IS FULL!)
Cynthia Stewart
Wed Jan 10, 06-07:30pm, Entrance to BPL
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
THIS CLASS IS FULL!
Put on your walking shoes and take a tour of the Boston Public Library (BPL) in Copley Square, one of America's architectural treasures. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1895, the magnificent Renaissance Revival building marries art with architecture. In addition to the mosaics, wall paintings, and murals, you will see features made of nearly 20 varieties of marble. View the murals by Pierre Puvis de Chauvannes, John Singer Sargent, and also see the work of Augustus St. Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies, and Daniel Chester French among others. Meet inside the Dartmouth Street entrance of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square.
Web: http://www.bpl.org/central/index.html
Contact: Cynthia Stewart, 7-337, x3-4408, stewart@mit.edu
Sponsor: Architecture
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Chocolate Tour of Boston
Meghan Reedy, Allison Kunz
Sun Jan 28, 01-03:00pm, Meet at Lobby 7
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Want to know where to get good chocolate in Boston? Or just want to take a tour around Boston and eat chocolate? Come with us on a tour of Boston that stops at chocolate hot spots where you can buy or eat the best chocolate Boston has to offer. Tour leaves from Lobby 7. Email questions to the contact below.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/chocolatiers/www/iapcal2007.html
Contact: Meghan Reedy, mcreedy@mit.edu
Sponsor: Laboratory for Chocolate Science
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