Wednesday Doorway (on Thursday)

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I usually post a doorway on Wednesday but forgot, so I am posting it today. I don't know how it happened, but I've been so preoccupied with other things lately it just slipped by me. Has this ever happened to you?

This doorway caught my attention because of the simplicity of the arch and also because it was being newly painted and spruced up.

Wednesday Doorway

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Doorway to Suffolk University Law School on Tremont Street.

Red Door

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Close up of red door from yesterday.

Wednesday Doorway

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Doorway to Paddy Burkes on Portland Street. This is the doorway to the building we saw yesterday in black in white.

Wednesday Doorway

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Doorway at the Boston University School of Theology. I like the way the doorway resembles that of a church, which in this case is appropriate.

Wednesday Doorway

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If it's Wednesday, it's time for another doorway. This is the doorway of the Forsyth Institute in the Fenway area of Boston. Straight on the doorway is not very impressive, but if you walk up a few of the stairs, you will see bronze bas reliefs on either side of the doors, as shown below:

   Bas relief on the left                               Bas relief on the right

Wednesday Doorway

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If it's Wednesday, it's time for another doorway. This week's posting is of three doorways at Horticultural Hall, located on the corner of Massachusetts and Huntington Avenues.

Wednesday Doorway

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Wednesday Doorway

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This Wednesday's doorway is the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul on Tremont Street.

Wednesday's doorway

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This magnificent doorway is located at 111 Park Dr. in the Fenway. The entire building and block can be seen in the picture below.

Doorway

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Doorway of a local church.

If it's Friday ... it must be a door

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In homage to Isadora's Wednesday series, here is the doorway of the Stephen Daniels Guest House in Salem, Massachusetts.

Iron Eagle

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One of a pair of iron eagles guarding a doorway on Tetlow Street in the Fenway area of Boston.

Doorway

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Doorway on Commonwealth Avenue.

Abraham Lincoln School, Bay Village

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Parker House

The Omni Parker House is the oldest continually functioning hotel in America (1855) and is one of only two hotels on the Freedom Trail. The Parker House is noted for its Parker House rolls and Boston Cream Pie, the official dessert of Massachusetts. It is currently undergoing major renovations to the outside of the building, which is sheathed entirely in scaffolding and netting.

The Parker House is also notable as the first Boston hotel to have hot and cold running water, and an elevator; for having Ho Chi Minh work there as a busboy, and Malcom X as a waiter. Notable vistors to the hotel have included English writer Charles Dickens, and the not so notable John Wilkes Boothe. Boothe stayed at the hotel the week before assasinating President Lincoln.

I like the ambience of the dining room and bar: it's all dark wood and comfortable chairs that can make you forget you are in the center of a busy city.

10 1/2

This beautiful doorway can be found at the Boston Athenaeum 10 1/2 Beacon Street, about a block from the State House. The Athenaeum, one of the oldest libraries (1807) in the country overlooks the Granary Burying Ground, which must guarantee it to have one of the quietest reading rooms in the city:)

Hollis Hall, Harvard

Going Nowhere

This stairway is on Mr. Vernon Street on Beacon Hill (near the intersection of Joy Street). I wonder what happened to the doorway and why it was bricked up; but more importantly, why the granite stairs and railing were not removed too.