Designed by H. H. Richardson in the 1870s to serve the city's burgeoning Back Bay neighborhood, Trinity Church in the City of Boston would come to represent the essence of the Richard-sonian Romanesque style, with its clay tile roof, abundant use of polychromy, rough-faced stone, heavy arches, and massive size. Its 9,500 tons rested on four elephantine granite pyramids, which were set atop 4,000 wooden pilings to prevent the structure from sinking into Back Bay's marshy wetlands.
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