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Big John Hancock Tower reshapes Boston skyline debates
A Boston column surveys the John Hancock Tower in Copley Square, praising its design and urban context while noting construction troubles and legal battles. It contrasts the dramatic rhomboid glass tower with Trinity Church and the library, and discusses estate tax pressures harming small farms like Wolf Hill in South Hampton, Massachusetts, under new valuation rules. The piece highlights conflicts over legality, insurance, and urban planning, and assesses the tax law’s impact on farms and public costs.
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Boston
History
Harry Cobb
I.M. Pei and Partners
Big John
Copley Square
Jong Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Cobb
Henry Hobson Richardson
Trinity Church
St. James Avenue
Copley Plaza
Charles McKim
Boston Public Library
Dartmouth Street
Copley
Huntington Avenue
Boylston Street
Back Bay
MIT
Massachusetts: Institute of Technology
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
S.S. Pierce
Library
Hancock
Clarendon Street
Richardson
Trinity
State House
Eas
Vorfingen
Mr. Cobb
John Hancock Tower
Louis Kahn
Southhampton
Massachusetts
Wolf Hill
United States
Myron H. Searle
U.S
Harry Gutman
Hill and Barlow
Gutman
John Barrus
Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation
Joint Committee On Taxation
Washington
Searle
John Arden
Nee Agribusiness
Nfekeeig