150 years ago, the Back Bay neighborhood was still a boggy, stinking tidal basin of a Bay. Today, it joins Beacon Hill as the wealthiest neighborhood in Boston. Come see how Bostonians made themselves a new neck of the woods at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.​

Home to Boston Public Library, Trinity Church, Copley Square, Newbury Street, and the Boston Public Garden, the Back Bay was built at a moment when modern technology and architecture crashed into historic New England.