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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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
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
The Old Cambridge Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts that dates to colonial times.
Avon Hill Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Avon Hill Historic District is a residential historic district near Porter Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Set atop Avon Hill southwest of Porter Square, this subdivision, laid out about 1870, contains a concentration of the finest Victorian and Second Empire residential buildings in the city.
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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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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