The museum building was a point of pride for German-Americans when it went up about 100 years ago (beer baron Adolphus Busch underwrote its construction). It housed Harvard’s Germanic Museum until 1991, and is still used for exhibitions as well as performances and events.

Interestingly, while the hall was completed in 1917, it did not open until 1921. Officially, the reason was a lack of coal for heating; but it probably had more to do with the U.S. fighting Germany in World War I.

Gutzon Borglum, the same sculptor behind Mount Rushmore, designed this plaster cast nearly 90 years ago to commemorate the 1927 executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

The pair were seen as scapegoats for anti-Italian hysteria at the time and innocent of the crimes for which a Massachusetts jury convicted them. (It didn’t help their case that the immigrants were also self-professed anarchists.)

The plaster resides on the third floor of the Boston Public Library’s main building, and has been awaiting a more permanent home for decades.

The Vilna Shul is the last immigrant-era synagogue building that exists in downtown Boston.

It currently operates as a cultural center celebrating Jewish heritage and its intersection with other cultures and communities in the city.

In 1893, Jewish immigrants from Vilna Gubernia—the province encompassing the present-day Lithuanian capital of Vilnius—formed a new American community on the north slope of Beacon Hill in Boston’s West End. On December 11, 1919, they laid the cornerstone for the Vilna Shul at 18 Phillips Street.

Now nearly 100 years old, the community venue often hosts speakers, films, and what it describes as life-cycle events.

The memorial commemorates the famine that started in 1845, and that led to not only hundreds of thousands of deaths, but to a mass emigration of Irish people to the United States.

This bronze and granite statue in Liberty Square dates from 1986, 30 years after the brutal Soviet crackdown on Hungarian rebels that it commemorates.

The 1956 repression spurred thousands of Hungarians to flee their home country, with many settling in the U.S., including the Boston area.

The famed revolutionary was the son of a French immigrant named Apollos Rivoire, who anglicized the family name after settling in Boston.

The younger Revere apprenticed under his father as a silversmith, and later owned this house (now museum) for three decades in the late 1700s.