Sitting at the BPL in Back Bay

Today I came to Boston to do some errands. Still waiting on the paperwork I need to go get my work visa.

I tremendously enjoy the old section of the Boston Public Library, especially the reading room as seen above.

Charles Follen Mckim and Philip Johnson designed the BPL main branch across copley square from Trinity Cathedral which was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. These buildings are from what I kind of consider the golden age of American culture in the late 1800s. Great buildings from that era were all paid for by philanthropy rather than state funding. So strange that the state has an enormously difficult time building things that are functional and good looking.


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