Boston City Hall has been declared a local historic landmark for its iconic — if sometimes controversial — brutalist ...

Boston City Hall has its admirers. And its detractors. But it’s an undeniable landmark of the city. And now it’s in writing.

Boston City Hall, a hulking example of Brutalist architecture, is the newest site to be designated as a historic landmark in the city.

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...