From the cemetery's site: "Bigelow Chapel (1840s, rebuilt 1850s) was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Dr. Jacob Bigelow working with architect Gridley J. F. Bryant. The Chapel, in its architecture and siting, is an original Gothic structure from the picturesque movement. The Chapel's original stained glass windows were created in Edinburgh, Scotland. "
Saw this at the entrance one day. She was sort of playing that thing by heating up the bottom of it with fire. Nothing like seeing someone walking around with a huge blow torch to get your attention.
The docking are as we approached the island. You can see the front walls of Fort Warren which takes up most of the island. The fort was used to house Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Click here for more information on George's Island.
Here's a view of most of the parade ground which is in the center of the fort. On this day there was some sort of Civil War reenactment (tents on the right) and a tribute to old time baseball.
The sea side end of the Charles River viewed from a balcony on the Cambridge side. Some of the sites seen in this pictures are, starting from the left, the Museum of Science (brick building with white doomed building attached), the new Zakim Bridge behind it, Mass General Hospital is the gray building just to the right of the moving boat, to the right of that is Beacon Hill, to the right of that is the Longfellow Bridge, along the shore just past the bridge is the Back Bay where you can see the Hancock Tower (the tallest building with the glass sides) and to the right of that the Prudential Tower a little taller than the other buildings around it.
