Herbert Adams sculpted this marble and granite statue of William Ellery Channing, the leading Unitarian minister of his day. It stands across from the Arlington Street Church, where Channing ministered from 1803 until his death in 1842.

The sculpture went up in 1903, on the 100th anniversary of Channing’s birth.

Thomas Ball, the same sculptor behind the Public Garden’s far more famous George Washington statue, sculpted this likeness of the fiery abolitionist senator Charles Sumner.

The bronze and granite statue went up in 1878.

A few steps to the southeast of the Swan Boats in the Public Garden, toward Charles Street, is a fountain that Lillian Swann Saarinen (ex-wife of Eero) sculpted in the mid-1980s (it debuted in 1986).

The name is taken from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book and shows one of the characters, a panther named Bagheera, lunging at an eagle. It’s supposed to symbolize escape from captivity.

Richard Edwin Brooks cast this bronze and granite statue in 1899.

It depicts Thomas Cass, an Irish immigrant who rose to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Cass would die in Boston of wounds sustained in Virginia in 1862.

Check out this map for more Boston sites honoring Irish-Americans.

Bela Lyon Pratt designed the bronze-and-granite statue of clergyman and journalist Edward Everett Hale (whose uncle was Edward Everett, namesake of the Boston suburb, and whose granduncle was Nathan Hale—he of “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” fame).

The statue was erected in 1913.

Daniel Chester French, probably best-known for sculpting the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in D.C., cast this granite and stone depiction of abolitionist orator and lawyer Wendell Philips.

It was erected in 1915.

For more markers and monuments commemorating Boston’s role in the abolition of slavery, check out this map.

Right where Spruce Street meets Beacon Street is a relief sculpture commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of Boston.

John Francis Paramino designed it and the city unveiled it in 1930.

The sculpture depicts William Blackstone, the city’s first European resident, greeting colonial Gov. John Winthrop.

On either side of the memorial to the 54th Massachusetts, perhaps the most famous feature of Boston Common this side of the Frog Pond, are two trees believed to be the oldest English elms in the Western Hemisphere.

Dating confirms these trees were planted sometime between 1772 and 1812, and with the permission of John Hancock, who lived nearby where the State House now looms.

Right between the Boston Common Visitors Center and Tremont Street are three bronze and granite sculptures depicting Learning, Religion, and Industry

They were erected in 1961 to honor Boston philanthropist George Francis Parkman Jr. Arcangelo Cascieri and Adio Biccari sculpted the trio.

Wait, why include the Park Street T stop on a map of hidden gems in Boston Common and the Public Garden? Glad you asked!

The station is one of the T’s two oldest—the other being Boylston Street, which also opened in 1897. And, because Park Street Station is one of the two oldest hubs on the T, it’s also one of the two oldest subway stations in the Western Hemisphere—because the T is the oldest subway system.

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