[TheForge] Re: Boston ironwork?

[Jim Beard]

Mike,

I was intrigued when I read about a blacksmith shop at MIT.  I did a
quick googling, and found this article, which I though others might
like reading.

http://spectrum.mit.edu/issue/2001-winter/blacksmith-shop/

Thanks

Jim
Drain, OR

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>
>> I'm visiting Boston right now. Any good ironwork I should look for?
>
> On Boylston St., across from the Common there's an archway made by
> Dimitri Gerakaris.  Nice forged animals and architectural detail
> elements in iron and bronze.
>
> Al Paley made a gate for the Milk St. station on the Boston subway.
> But Milk St. station longer exists and I've been unablle to determine
> just where the gate is if it is, in fact, still publically installed
> at all. You might call the MBTA PR department (or get your hotel
> people to do so) and ask.  They've made quite big deal about art in
> the subway over the last 20 years.  (If you manage to find Al's Milk
> St. gate somewhere, I'd be pleased ot have a photo of it.)
>
> The Public Library at Copley Square -- walking distance from the Common
> -- has some spectacular lamps on the front.  Across Boylston Street on
> the corner, Old South Church has some interesting if less flamboyalnt
> ironwork.
>
> Dimitri also made a fountain for Kendall Sq.  I find it much less
> interesting than the Boylston arch because it's mostly fabrication but
> a nice piece nevertheless. Take the Red Line to MIT/Kendall, leave the
> subway and walk a block or two back toward Boston.  Or walk/bus/cab to
> the Mass. Av. entrance to MIT, enter the main doors and follow the
> Infinite Corridor out the back, then continue, insofar as possible, in
> the same line as the Corridor and thru an atrium in another building
> till you see signs for the T (subway).
>
> While you're in the vicinity of MIT (and if you're into that sort of
> thing) MIT has a Henry Moore bronze on the lawn facing the river and a
> towering Alexander Calder "Big Sail" more or less on the shortest path
> from the subway to the main building that faces on Mass. Ave.
>
> Should you get as far as the Infinite Corridor at MIT, take the
> stairs down to the basement level of the corridor.   From somewhere
> along it (remember, it's infinite... :-) you'll be able to look into
> Prof. Sam Allen's blacksmith shop where Toby Bashaw (who manages it)
> may be in evidence.
>
>
> FWIW,
> - Mike
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