Ames Building

The Ames Building is located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is sometimes ranked as the tallest building in Boston from its completion in 1889 until 1915, when the Custom House Tower was built, but the steeple of the 1867 Church of the Covenant was much taller than the Ames Building.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Museum

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The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is situated 980 feet southeast of Ames Building.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Museum

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The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Museum of Natural History is situated 770 feet southeast of Ames Building.

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

University building

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The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace. Founded at Harvard Law School, the center traditionally focused on internet-related legal issues.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baldwin and Old Cambridge Historic District.

Baldwin

Neighborhood

Baldwin, formerly known as Agassiz and also called Harvard North, Area 8 or Agassiz/Baldwin, is one of the thirteen neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Old Cambridge Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Old Cambridge Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts that dates to colonial times.

Spring Hill

Neighborhood

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Spring Hill is a ridge in the central part of the city of Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, and the residential neighborhood that sits atop it.

Ames Building

Type: Building
Description: first skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts
Category: skyscraper
Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.37954° or 42° 22′ 46″ north

Longitude

-71.11811° or 71° 7′ 5″ west

Elevation

20 feet (6 metres)

Open location code

87JC9VHJ+RQ

GeoNames ID

4928983

Wikidata ID

Q470245

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Spanish—“Ames Building” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Ames Building”
Egyptian Arabic: “مبنى اميس”
French: “Ames Building”
German: “Ames Building”
Hebrew: “בניין איימס”
Spanish: “Ames Building”

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