Boston's Old City Hall

Boston's Old City Hall guide centers on James Michael Curley, the four-term mayor who ran the city from the office behind this facade. It follows his 1947 conviction for mail fraud tied to a wartime contracts scheme, the sentence he served while somehow staying mayor, and an earlier scandal decades before that landed him in jail as a young alderman. Look for the bronze donkey in the courtyard, added later as the Democratic Party's mascot.