Back Bay neighborhood, Boston

“Copley Square,” named after the 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. The square features a number and variety of important architectural works, many of which are official landmarks. Prominent structures still standing include: the Old South Church, a Venetian Gothic Revival building; Trinity Church, a Romanesque Revival structure; the Boston Public Library; the Beaux-Arts Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, built in 1912 on the site of the original Museum of Fine Arts; the John Hancock Tower, the tallest building in New England; and the postmodern Bostix Kiosk, located at the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston Streets and inspired by Parisian pavilions.