Time to play Attention to Detail™ again. On what building would you find this carved detail?
Your clue is that you might miss it if you were paying more attention to shop windows than to the architecture on this street.
Here are some of the books I use as references for the "Attention to Detail" column I write for the Back Bay Sun.
Click through or scroll down for the answer to this visual scavenger hunt.
This detail is on Emmanuel Church at 15 Newbury Street. This is one of many buildings in the Back Bay built of Roxbury puddingstone and there is a full description of this material on the Emmanuel Church website. (www.emmanuel-boston.org)
"Roxbury puddingstone (or Roxbury conglomerate) is a sedimentary rock formed over millions of years when white quartz sand and a combination of pebbles and stones, washed by the ocean and buried under rocks, hardened and cemented together under the pressure of retreating glaciers, giving it the appearance of a plum pudding. It is found in deposits between Boston’s Blue Hills and the Atlantic Ocean, and has been designated the Massachusetts state rock."
