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Fenway Park
Fenway Park opened on April 20, 1912, with the Red Sox beating the New York Highlanders 7–6 in 11 innings in the ballpark's very first game. More than a century later it's still in everyday use, making it the oldest active ballpark in Major League Baseball and the last surviving stadium from the short-lived Federal League era still hosting regular games. The park has been rebuilt around its original bones more than once — a substantial reconstruction in 1934 and a wave of renovations beginning in the early 2000s that, by some estimates, extended its usable life out to around 2062. Current seating capacity runs to roughly 37,305 for day games and 37,755 at night, modest by modern ballpark standards but part of what gives Fenway its famously tight, close-to-the-field feel, including the Green Monster looming over left field. On March 7, 2012, its centennial year, Fenway was added to the National Register of Historic Places, formal recognition for a ballpark that had already been functioning as a de facto historic landmark for decades before the designation made it official. Watching a game there is as much about sitting inside a piece of early-20th-century stadium architecture as it is about the baseball itself. For a Boston attractions list, Fenway Park is the essential "history you can still buy a ticket to" entry — a working, National Register-listed ballpark that's hosted Red Sox games continuously since 1912, longer than any other stadium currently in the majors.
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Boston Public Garden
The Boston Public Garden was established in 1837 as the first public botanical garden in the United States, laid out on 24 acres adjoining Boston Common by landscape designer George F. Meacham, with the paths and flower beds later refined by city engineer James Slade and forester John Galvin. Its best-known feature came decades after the garden itself: the pedal-powered Swan Boats began operating on the Garden's 4-acre pond in 1877 and have run every year since, making them one of the longest-running tourist attractions in the city. The distinctive suspension bridge crossing that same pond dates to 1867, and every spring the Garden hosts a "Return of the Swans" celebration, complete with a parade and brass band, marking the season's mute swans coming back to the water. The Garden is also dotted with genuine historic monuments rather than purely decorative landscaping — Thomas Ball's equestrian statue of George Washington, unveiled in 1869, anchors one entrance, while the Ether Monument nearby commemorates the first public use of ether anesthesia, a Boston medical milestone with global consequences. For a Boston attractions list, the Public Garden is the essential "slow down in the middle of the city" entry — America's first public botanical garden, still running the same Swan Boats it introduced in 1877 on a pond ringed by monuments most visitors walk past without realizing what they're looking at.
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