Boston’s Hidden Gems: History Dioramas - The Next Phase Blog

• The William Blaxton house (1625): William Blaxton, or Blackstone, was an Anglican minister and the first British settler in Boston. He came here in 1623 with a group of settlers. When they returned to England, he stayed on the Shawmut Peninsula alone, on land that is now Boston Common. He, not the Puritans who arrived in 1630 was the first true Bostonian.

Boston’s Hidden Gems: History Dioramas

This is the ninth in a series of posts on largely unknown spaces in Boston that are open to the public. The pedestrians on Newbury Street in the Back Bay walk past the old New England Life Insurance building, today known as The Newbry. … Continue reading Boston’s Hidden Gems: History Dioramas