Boston University built its arena loud on purpose. Agganis Arena at 925 Commonwealth Avenue, the centrepiece of BU's John Hancock Student Village on the site of the old Commonwealth Armory, opened on 3 January 2005 with the Terriers' men's hockey team beating Minnesota - and legendary coach Jack Parker had consulted the architects to make sure the new room kept the deafening home-ice advantage of tiny Walter Brown Arena. The rink bears Parker's name; the building honours Harry Agganis, the Golde.....

Boston put chandeliers on a concert hall and bottle service beside the Bruins. Big Night Live opened on Halloween night 2019 at 110 Causeway Street, the anchor tenant of the Hub on Causeway development at the gateway of TD Garden - a 40,000-square-foot luxury music hall from Big Night Entertainment Group in partnership with Live Nation, built to give the arena district a headline room of its own. The Live Hall runs 1,400 standing or 757 seated across 11,500 square feet, dressed unlike any club .....

In the heart of downtown Boston bounded by Beacon, Park, Tremont, Boylston and Charles Streets, the Boston Common is the oldest public park in the United States and one of the most historically significant public spaces in the nation. The 50-acre rectangular park was established in 1634, just four years after the founding of Boston itself, when the Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony purchased the land from the original settler William Blaxton and dedicated it to common use as a ca.....

On the western edge of downtown Boston immediately west of Boston Common at the corner of Beacon, Charles, Boylston and Arlington Streets, the Boston Public Garden is the first public botanical garden in the United States and one of the most beloved small urban parks in New England. The 24-acre formal garden was established in 1837 by an Act of the Massachusetts General Court on a piece of made land created through the gradual filling-in of the marshy bay just west of the Common. The garden was.....

The first concert hall ever built on scientific principles is still ranked among the world's three best. Symphony Hall at 301 Massachusetts Avenue opened on 15 October 1900 as the permanent home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by BSO founder Henry Lee Higginson from the architects McKim, Mead and White - with one decisive addition. Higginson hired Wallace Clement Sabine, a young Harvard physics professor, as acoustical consultant, and Sabine's new mathematical formula for reverber.....

Allston Rock City lost its cornerstone and got a new one at the same address. Brighton Music Hall at 158 Brighton Avenue occupies the room that was Harpers Ferry for four decades - the bar Edward Connelly opened in 1970 and named for the Civil War battle, which grew into "Boston's Best Live Music" and the primary stage of the student-dense Allston scene. Harpers hosted everyone from Bo Diddley and blues festivals to the hardcore bands orphaned by the Rathskeller's closing, Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy.....

The most storied address in Boston rock and roll sits directly across Lansdowne Street from Fenway Park's Green Monster. The Citizens House of Blues Boston at 15 Lansdowne Street opened on 19 February 2009 with a one-night reunion of the J. Geils Band, becoming the thirteenth House of Blues in America and, at roughly 2,500 capacity, the largest room in the chain. The 53,000-square-foot complex rose on ground that had already spent four decades as the city's nightlife engine: the Ark, the legenda.....

Boston's only working winery pours its vintages a block from TD Garden. City Winery Boston opened on 20 November 2017 at One Canal Street in the Bulfinch Triangle, the reborn stretch of the old West End between North Station and the Rose Kennedy Greenway, after almost two years of planning and a string of construction delays that had the city's music fans checking the calendar. It was the fifth city in Michael Dorf's expanding chain - after New York, Chicago, Nashville and Atlanta - and imported.....

The oldest continuously operating theatre in Boston, the Emerson Colonial Theatre on Boylston Street has been a centrepiece of the city's Theater District since it opened in 1900. Renowned for its sumptuous Gilded Age interior of gold leaf, marble and ornate plasterwork, the theatre has hosted countless landmark productions over more than a century and holds a storied place in American theatrical history as a celebrated pre-Broadway tryout house. The auditorium seats around seventeen hundred pe.....

In the dense urban Fenway-Kenmore neighbourhood about two miles west of downtown Boston, Fenway Park is the oldest active baseball stadium in Major League Baseball, the home of the Boston Red Sox and one of the most beloved sporting venues in the United States. The 37,755-seat ballpark opened on 20 April 1912 (just five days after the sinking of the Titanic, an event that overshadowed all news coverage of the opening). Continuously occupied by the Red Sox since the opening day, the park has serv.....