Trinity Church
Romanesque stone church resting on thousands of wooden pilings sunk into filled tidal marshland.
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This guide to Trinity Church in Boston starts in 1874, when an engineer stopped construction cold: Henry Hobson Richardson's tower was too heavy for the filled tidal marsh beneath Copley Square. The design was reworked by a young draftsman named Stanford White, who borrowed from a photograph the painter John La Farge had mailed from Spain, of the old cathedral at Salamanca. Listen for what the guide says is really holding the church up, buried in the mud below your feet.
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