What a weekend!

This past weekend, my partner and I went to Boston and our plane landed just as the storm was starting to hit!! My brother and his wife live there now and in January, they became the proud parents of a new baby girl - Gemma Elizabeth.
So off we went to Boston to meet our niece and reconnect with our nephew - Samuel Alexander who will be two years old soon.....

Well if you have had children, at two and half months, they are not too interactive except with their moms. But my nephew, what a whirlwind of energy! I showed him my juggling skills and he tried his hardest! We played "Marching Band" and "Chase" which is Marching Band without the instruments and slower. And the boy loves to read......

Time just flew and after a day with children - well we were exhausted! Needless to say, we didn't explore too much of Boston but what we did see was amazing.

My brother and his wife live in the Back Bay area of Boston on Comm Ave.

Here is some information from Wikpedia about the Back Bay area.

"The neighborhood gained its name because the area was, in fact, before it was filled in literally the "Back Bay" for Boston. To the west of the Shawmut Peninsula, on the far side from Boston Harbor, a wide bay opened between Boston and Cambridge, with the Charles River entering at the west side. As with all of the New England coast, the bay was tidal, with water rising and falling several feet over the course of the day. At low water, part of the bottom of the bay was exposed.

In 1814, the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation was chartered to construct a mill dam, which would also serve as a toll road connecting Boston to Watertown, bypassing Boston Neck. The dam was later buried under present-day Beacon Street.[1]

The Back Bay neighborhood was created when the parcel of land was created by filling the tidewater flats of the Charles River. This massive project was begun in 1857. The filling of present-day Back Bay was completed by 1882; filling reached Kenmore Square in 1890, and finished in the Fens in 1900. The project was the largest of a number of land reclamation projects, beginning in 1820, which over the course of time more than doubled the size of the original Boston peninsula. It is frequently observed that this would have been impossible under modern environmental regulations."

So since this blog is about real estate, I thought I should write about what I saw.


The brownstones in Back Bay are gorgeous! These four and five storey buildings used to be single family homes - "city homes" - back when they were built. The architecture is beautiful and its been preserved! Many of them have been converted to condominium apartments without changing the facades. And if my brother's apartment is any indication - I can only say - WOW.....


I think the Toronto Historical Society is great for Toronto, but it would seem to me that we started thinking preservation far too late..... If you are interested in learning more about historical Toronto, you might consider going on a walking tour - just google - Toronto Walking Tours - and host of options appears for you to choose from.



Sam