Editing Copley Square (section)

==Architecture==
Several architectural landmarks are adjacent to the square:
* [[Old South Church]] (1873), by [[Charles Amos Cummings]] and [[Willard T. Sears]] in the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Venetian Gothic Revival style]]
* [[Trinity Church (Boston)|Trinity Church]] (1877, [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]]), considered [[H. H. Richardson]]'s ''tour de force''
* [[Boston Public Library, McKim Building|Boston Public Library]] (1895), by [[Charles Follen McKim]] in a [[Renaissance Revival architecture|revival of Italian Renaissance style]], incorporates artworks by [[John Singer Sargent]], [[Edwin Austin Abbey]], [[Daniel Chester French]], and others
* The [[The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel|Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel]] (1912) by [[Henry Janeway Hardenbergh]] in the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] style (on the site of the original [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]])
* The [[John Hancock Tower]] (1976, late [[Modern architecture|Modernist]]) by [[Henry N. Cobb]], at {{convert|790|ft}} [[New England]]'s tallest building
* The [[ArtsBoston#BosTix|BosTix]] Kiosk (1992, [[Postmodern architecture|Postmodernist]]), at the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston streets, by [[Graham Gund]] with inspiration from Parisian park pavilions<ref>Mary Melvin Petronella, ed., ''Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours'' (Northeastern University Press, 2004), 69, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qg_uLLXLY5kC&pg=PA69& available online], access September 9, 2012</ref>

Notable buildings later demolished:
* Peace Jubilee Coliseum<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.celebrateboston.com/architecture/coliseum.htm |website=CelebrateBoston |title=Old Boston Coliseum, 1869 |access-date=June 2, 2022}}</ref> (1869, demolished the same year) A temporary wooden structure, seating fifty thousand, was built on St. James Park for the 1869 [[National Peace Jubilee]]. Replaced by [[World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival|World's Peace Jubilee Coliseum]] (1872), which was replaced by the Museum of Fine Arts.
* [[Second Church, Boston|Second Church]] (1874, sold 1912, demolished by 1914) A [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] church by [[Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee|N. J. Bradlee]].
* [[Chapel Hill – Chauncy Hall School|Chauncy Hall School]] ({{circa|1874}}, demolished 1908), a tall-gabled High Victorian brick school building on Boylston St. near Dartmouth Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/images/v692th57v |title=259 Boylston Street, Chauncey Hall School, ca. 1874–90 |access-date=May 28, 2022 |website=Tufts Digital Library}}</ref>
* [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|Museum of Fine Arts]] (1876, demolished 1910) by [[John Hubbard Sturgis]] and [[Charles Brigham]] in the Gothic Revival style, was the first purpose-built public art museum in the world.
* [[S.S. Pierce]] Building, (1887, demolished 1958) by S. Edwin Tobey, "no masterpiece of architecture, [but] great urban design. A heap of dark Romanesque masonry, it anchored a corner of Copley Square as solidly as a mountain."<ref>Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwarker. Coming into Copley. Boston Globe. March 26, 2006. p. BGM 16.</ref>
* Hotel Westminster<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lostnewengland.com/2016/01/hotel-westminster-boston/ |title=Hotel Westminster, Boston |website=Lost New England |last=Strahan |first=Derek |date=January 26, 2016 |access-date=May 27, 2022}}</ref> (1897, demolished 1961), Trinity Place, by Henry E. Cregier;<ref>{{cite news |title=Chicago Man's Reputation |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ypY-AAAAIBAJ&pg=5699%2C3827006 |access-date=May 4, 2015 |work=Boston Evening Transcript |date=February 3, 1900 |page=7}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Shand-Tucci|1999|p=102}}</ref> now replaced by the northeast corner of the new John Hancock Tower. Razed in 1961 by owner [[John Hancock Financial|John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company]] for a parking lot.<ref>{{cite news |title=Old Westminster Hotel to be Razed for Parking Lot |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=December 2, 1960}}</ref>
* [[Grundmann Studios]] (1893, demolished 1917), home of the Boston Art Students Association (later known as the [[Copley Society]]), contained artist studios and Copley Hall, a popular venue for exhibitions, lectures and social gatherings.