26.2 Miles to Boston: Fun Touristy Stuff

The square is named for John Singleton Copley, a famous portait painter of the late 18th century and native of Boston. A bronze statue of Copley, by sculptor Lewis Cohen, is located on the northern side of the square. ... Its red Gothic Revival style building was torn down and rebuilt as the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel (1912) which still exists today. Trinity Church (1872â€"77), designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, called "deservedly regarded as one of the finest buildings ...