The Rainbow Swash photographed from Buck Hill.
The iconic Rainbow Swash art mural painted on the side of a natural gas storage tank is an easy target to view from Buck Hill. It is right off of the I-93 Southeast Expressway. Apparently, the current one is not the original. The original was painted in 1971 and was replaced with this reproduction in 1992. This is the only one I have known.
Looking in this general direction the photos are dense with notable sites. Even in this tight crop of the Swash, there are so many notable details.
Starting at the top... The large building that spans the top of the photo is the Boston Design Center, 1 Design Center Place, South Boston. I will likely circle back to this building at some point and give it a post of its own.
Directly behind the Swash is the Integrated Sciences Complex UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston.
Just under and in-front of the Swash is the newly constructed Imprint Apartments, 780 Morrissey Blvd, Dorchester. I could see the construction on Google imagery, but it took me a while to identify this by name.
In front of the apartment complex are two churches. The more prominent has a large brick bell tower, which is St Ann’s Parish, 251 Neponset Ave, Dorchester. Just in front of that we can spy the tops of the two steeples of St Brendan Church, 589 Gallivan Blvd, Dorchester. It turns out that both of these churches are part of the St Martin de Porres Parish.
Lastly, the lone white house in the bottom right, I have identified as 290 Adams St, Milton MA.
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