Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: Beacon Street

Built in 1899 as the Hotel Bellevue and is now an elegant residential condo building. The Bellevue Hotel and the adjacent apartment building at 122 Bowdoin Street served as John Kennedy’s residences when he moved to Boston to run for the U.S. Congress in 1946 under the slogan of "The New Generation Offers a Leader." The future president initially lived at the Bellevue, where his grandfather John F. Fitzgerald, former Boston Mayor and U.S. Congressman, was spending his retirement years.

In Boston, on the edge of Boston Common and along Beacon Street, is a large stone monument at an entrance to the Common. This monument celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the founding of the City of Boston. Inscribed on the Beacon Street side of the monument are three texts, one of which is the famous declaration of John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, spoken on board the Arbella just before the city was founded: "For wee must consider that wee shall be as a citty on a hill the lies of all people are uppon us so that if wee shall deale falsely with our God in this worke we have undertaken … wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world." On the Common side, there is one phrase, "Boston Founded AD 1630" as well as a basin in the stone that indicate that it probably was a fountain at one time. Immediately above the basin is a bronze relief sculpture done by John Francis Palermino. It depicts two men about to shake hands, with other settlers nearby. The man on the left represents William Blackstone and behind him are Native Americans. These represent those who had lived on the Shawmut Peninsula – the core piece of land that would become the city of Boston – before the newcomers arrived, represented by the man and the line of people to the right. Boston Harbour and the buildings of Charlestown (founded two years earlier) are in the background, along with a ship floating in the harbour. There are hills in the far background.

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Built in 1899 as the Hotel Bellevue and is now an elegant residential condo building. The Bellevue Hotel and the adjacent apartment building at 122 Bowdoin Street served as John Kennedy’s residences when he moved to Boston to run for the U.S. Congress in 1946 under the slogan of "The New Generation Offers a Leader." The future president initially lived at the Bellevue, where his grandfather John F. Fitzgerald, former Boston Mayor and U.S. Congressman, was spending his retirement years.

Built in 1899 as the Hotel Bellevue and is now an elegant residential condo building. The Bellevue Hotel and the adjacent apartment building at 122 Bowdoin Street served as John Kennedy’s residences when he moved to Boston to run for the U.S. Congress in 1946 under the slogan of "The New Generation Offers a Leader." The future president initially lived at the Bellevue, where his grandfather John F. Fitzgerald, former Boston Mayor and U.S. Congressman, was spending his retirement years.

The American historian, William Hickling Prescott, lived at number 55 Beacon Street from 1845-1859. (He was a grandson of the William Prescott who commanded the American soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and who issued the famous command "Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes!") Prescott was one of the first English-speaking historians to write about the Spanish Empire. His books included histories of the Spanish monarchs and of the conquests of Mexico and Peru. Some have been translated into several languages and remain in print today. He built a rear addition, which included his extensive library on the second floor, and a third floor study, now faithfully restored, where he wrote his History of the Conquest of Peru. During his lifetime, he was upheld as one of the greatest living American intellectuals, and knew personally many of the leading political figures of the day, in both the United States and Britain. Indeed, William Makepeace Thackery, the author of the novel "Vanity Fair," was a house guest during a visit to America in 1852. The Prescott house and the adjoining home at 54 Beacon Street, were built in 1808 by the esteemed American architect Asher Benjamin and are highlighted by two bow-fronts. These Federal period twin houses overlook Boston Common. The land was once owned by John Singleton Copley, America’s most accomplished colonial portrait painter.

Cheers Beacon Hill, formerly the Bull & Finch Pub, is a bar and restaurant located on Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, across from the Boston Public Garden. Founded in 1969 as the Bull & Finch Pub, the bar is known internationally as the exterior of the bar seen in the NBC television sitcom Cheers which ran from 1982 to 1993. The show used the Bull & Finch exterior for the series’ establishing shots of the namesake bar Cheers. No interior shots were used, and the interior does not resemble that of the Cheers bar. In 2002, the Bull & Finch Pub was officially renamed "Cheers Beacon Hill". On March 10, 2009, the Boston Globe reported that longtime Cheers bartender Eddie Doyle, with a 35-year tenure that predated the sitcom Cheers, had been laid off. Owner Tom Kershaw cited the recession as the reason for the decision. The block on which Cheers resides has been renamed Eddie Doyle square in his honor.

Daniel Chester French was commissioned to sculpt two memorials to the noted Boston philanthropist George Robert White (1847-1922). One of these monuments (completed and dedicated in 1924) stands in Boston’s Public Garden, at the northwest corner near the intersection of Beacon and Arlington Streets. The monument, titled "Casting Bread Upon the Waters," shows a smiling, moving angel holding a basket in her left hand and scattering seed with her right, as if to show how White gave his money to many causes which then took root and bore fruit. The base of the statue gives the verse from Ecclesiastes 11:1 from which the statue takes its name: Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

The Native American warrior statue in "Cheers" was a statue of Tecumseh. It was featured prominently in episode 189 of season 8 in 1990, Bar Wars III: The Return of Tecumseh. In it, Rebecca would like nothing better than to end the long-standing feud between the Cheers gang and their arch-rivals at Gary's Olde Towne Tap. But this proves impossible when it seems that someone at Gary's has stolen Cheers' beloved statue. The war escalates throughout the episode, with a surprising twist at the finale.