News

Send this article to your social connections. Bring your sunglasses next time you visit the Old State House during the day. The newly refurbished lion and unicorn statues have found their way home ...
The lion and unicorn statues were originally built atop the Old State House in 1713, but were torn down and burnt in a symbolic bonfire in 1776. Replica statues made of wood were then placed back ...
[The Old State House building] has been knitted into the fabric of contemporary Boston.” The original time capsule placed beneath the lion’s crown was extremely difficult to remove, so the Bostonian ...
Boston’s newly refurbished iconic statues of a lion and a unicorn were successfully hoisted back to their perches on the pediment of the historic Old State House this morning, a time capsule ...
Like a giant, living American flag, hundreds of people decked out in their best red, white, and blue surrounded Boston’s Old State House on Thursday morning for patriotic observances and ...
A huge crowd gathered Monday morning for a reading of the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of the Old State House--the same place it was first read from in 1776.
The Unicorn and the Lion on the Old State House Are Coming Down for Restoration The lion allegedly has a time capsule inside of it that contains some Boston relics. By Steve Annear · 8/29/2014, 3 ...
The lion and another statue, of a unicorn, both dating back to 1901, were removed from their perches on top of the Old State House at the corner of Washington and State streets for repairs last month.
Boston officials are puzzling over how to retrieve a 113-year-old time capsule from inside a lion statue on Boston’s Old State House. The time capsule, mentioned in a 1901 Boston Daily Globe ...