Greater Boston’s Architecture, Pretty in Pink

Amy Dain
3 min readJan 29, 2020

In Greater Boston, you can find buildings dressed for the prom, in hand beaded ball gowns and the spiffiest of tuxedos. But here’s a little slide show to honor buildings that are dressed down — or dressed up quirky. Here’s to the Duckies of Greater Boston’s architecture prom.

Winthrop
Marlboro
Winthrop
Weymouth
Waltham
Wrentham (two buildings, one roof)
Newton (the flowers match the brick)
Weymouth
Framingham
Salem
Lynn
Walpole
Newton
Roslindale
Rockland
Wakefield
Weymouth
Hingham
Braintree
Hudson
Weymouth
Lincoln (the Star Wars of rooflines)
Chelsea

And here is at least one Pretty in Pink… (although not quite the sew-your-own-dress aesthetic necessary for the role. There must be one out there…)

Newton

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Amy Dain

Public policy research: housing and land use, data use in public management, and environmental issues. Greater Boston. Instagram, Twitter: @amydain