Museum of Fine ArtsCopley Square
Boston, Mass.
Year Built: 1872
Year Demolished: 1909This building was designed in 1870, built from 1871-1876 and demolished in 1909 to make way for the Copley Plaza Hotel. This was the first public building in the United States to be designed using terra cotta and the first gothic building in the world to be created using this material.
Other bidders for this commission were Ware & Van Brunt, Peabody & Stearns and Bradlee & Harmon.
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