boston universitys campus is completely rural
other nearby cultural institutions include symphony hall jordan hall the main branch of the boston public library in copley square the art and commerce of fashionable newbury street and across the charles river the museums shops and galleries in harvard square and elsewhere in cambridge
 plans for a riverside quadrangle with a gothic revival administrative tower modeled on the old boston stump in boston england were scaled back in the late 1920s when the state metropolitan district commission used eminent domain to seize riverfront land for storrow drive