I took virtually these same views 25 years ago albeit in color. Maybe you did, too. So have countless other tourists in the 170 years since cameras. Change the clothes, a lamp post or two, the tour bus, a few signs –and it could have been taken this morning. Not much changes.
These are from 4" x 5" glass negatives, 1900, the same photographer as the recent Parliament, Spalding Market and Boston Circus posts on Timebinder.