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	John Paul Jones and John Hancock
		Hancock's name exuded a sense of security and, according to the company's own history, a half million dollars of insurance had been sold by 1864 and $20 million worth within a decade.
		John Hancock and John Paul Jones With the exception of Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, no two names from the American Revolution are better recognized than John Hancock and John Paul Jones.
		John Hancock went on to be Governor of Massachusetts in the new United States and lived sumptuously until he died of gout in 1793 at age 56.
	www.seacoastnh.com /jpj/johnhancock.html (1285 words)

	John Hancock History
		Or that, when the 60-story glass John Hancock Tower was built in Boston's Back Bay in 1971, a steel beam with more than 2,000 employees' signatures was hoisted to the top of the building for posterity, and still remains there to this day?
		Now part of the world of publicly traded companies, John Hancock is looking at the successes of the past as a prelude to the accomplishments of the future.
		John Hancock is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Manulife Financial.
	www.manulife.com /corporate/corporate2.nsf/Public/hancockHistory.html (1276 words)

	John Hancock Observatory in The Boston Insider: Travel Tips on Getting the Most Out of Boston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stories abound about how the windows fell from their frames soon after the tower was constructed, but the problem was finally solved by replacing the building's 13 acres of glass and strengthening the building's core.
		Their proximity was part of the controversy that originally surrounded the Hancock's design -- local critics were fearful that the new building would completely overwhelm the Trinity Church, which was considered by many to be one of Boston's main architectural jewels.
		The John Hancock Tower is an office building, and, as such, the lobby is not particularly remarkable.
	www.theinsider.com /Boston/attractions/2hancock.htm (543 words)

	John Hancock Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1977 the AIA presented Cobb with a National Honor Award for the John Hancock Tower.
		During the excavation of the tower's foundation, temporary steel retaining walls were erected to create a void on which to build.
		The oldest of the John Hancock buildings was designed by Parker, Thomas and Rice, best known as architects of the United Shoe Machinery building.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Hancock_Tower (2096 words)

	The Hancock Tower turns 30 years old - The Boston Globe (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The man who designed the tower didn't intend for there to be a gap between its bold architectural statement and the more-circumscribed aspirations of the businesses inside.
		Before ironworkers hoisted the final 36-foot steel I-beam into place to top off the tower in September 1971, it was painted white and placed in the lobby of the old Hancock building, where employees scrawled their names across it for posterity.
		Like Reynolds, whose father worked for John Hancock for 38 years, Marty Costello is the second generation of his family to begin a professional career beneath the Hancock logo.
	www.boston.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/local/articles/2006/09/24/60_stories_and_countless_tales (2970 words)

	The World According To Google - satellite pictures of the most interesting places on the World, satellite maps » ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The building known by Bostonians as the John Hancock Tower, or colloquially, the "New" Hancock Tower, is officially named Hancock Place.
		The John Hancock companies were the main tenants of the tower, but the insurance company announced in 2004 that some offices will relocate to a new building at 601 Congress Street.
		The highly reflective window glass is tinted slightly blue, which results in the tower having only a slight contrast with the sky on a clear day.
	maps.pomocnik.com /john-hancock-tower-boston-usa (1394 words)

	USATODAY.com - Canada's Manulife buying John Hancock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Under terms of the deal, shareholders of Boston-based John Hancock will receive 1.1853 shares of Manulife for each of their shares, or $37.60 per share, based on Hancock's Wednesday closing price.
		Founded in 1862, John Hancock grew to become a financial giant in Boston, dominating the city's corporate landscape and, eventually, its skyline with the John Hancock Tower, a glass skyscraper that is the city's tallest.
		John Hancock CEO David D'Alessandro will become chief operating officer; a year after the deal is complete, he will become president of Manulife.
	www.usatoday.com /money/companies/2003-09-29-john-hancock_x.htm (490 words)

	1996 Pulitzer Prizes-CRITICISM, Works
		The 60-story, 790-foot mirror-glass tower, designed by Henry Cobb of the famed firm of I. Pei and Partners, is Boston's most visible, most spectacular building.
		What hardly anyone understands -- and this is the real story of the Hancock -- is that problems with the windows weren't even the biggest disaster to strike this haunted high-rise mirror, which always seems to be reflecting clouds as if it were brooding on its own grim beginnings.
		Samples of the Hancock window panels were being exhaustively tested in a wind tunnel in Ontario.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/1996/criticism/works/CRIT-MAR3.html (1985 words)

	Interesting article on Jonh Hancock Tower - UrbanPlanet.org
		Indeed, it was twice as tall as the John Hancock Building, the tower's chunky, lovable predecessor, which had previously been the city's tallest office building at 26 stories.
		The Hancock, arriving at the end of a building boom and situated by two of the city's most venerated pieces of architecture, Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library's McKim Building, did everything possible to deflect attention from itself.
		The company released a statement: "We at Prudential welcome the announcement by John Hancock as an expression of mutual confidence in a great future for Boston." The Prudential was putting a good face on a grim situation.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=979 (2176 words)

	Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
		To achieve symbiosis between tower and square, a strategy of minimalism was adopted; everything not contributing directly to this end was omitted.
		Rather than separate tower and church by a gratuitous distance, they were brought into close proximity and the tower positioned and shaped to become the contingent satellite of a composition centered on the church.
		The tower's rhomboidal plan reinforces this goal, emphasizing the planar and minimizing volumetric presence while disembodying the tower's mass as seen from the Square.
	www.pcf-p.com /a/p/6710/s.html (302 words)

	John Hancock Tower :: 200 Clarendon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States :: Glass Steel and Stone
		I n another city, the John Hancock tower wouldn't be anything special -- just another reflective glass box in the crowd.
		So when John Hancock Tower swayed with the wind, or sighed with the temperature, the windows didn't and eventually cracked and plummeted to Earth.
		So 1,500 tons of steel braces were used to stiffen the tower and the Hancock building's final architectural indignity was surmounted.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /BuildingDetail/399.php (1022 words)

	SkyscraperCity - #110 - John Hancock Tower, Boston
		In another city, the John Hancock tower wouldn't be anything special -- just another reflective glass box in the crowd.
		October 12th, 2002 04:06 PM The John Hancock was built in 1976 by I.M. Pei.
		John Hancock Tower is a bit plain, but not bad.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /printthread.php?t=5999 (1016 words)

	John Hancock Center - Bruce Graham/ SOM - Great Buildings Online
		The diagonals, spandrels and columns are clearly articulated to depict the primary elements of this tube.
		Less than thirty pounds of steel per square foot of floor area were used in the building, equaling that of a forty- to fifty-story traditional tower.
		John Hancock insisted on producing a tall building with residences above, offices and commercial uses below.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/John_Hancock_Center.html (396 words)

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		Boston-based Beacon Capital Partners agreed to buy the 62-story headquarters of John Hancock Financial Services and two other buildings in downtown Boston from the financial services firm for $910 million or about $338 per square foot, bringing a conclusion to one of the more hotly contested bidding wars in the city's history.
		Hancock said it will generate a pre-tax gain of about $570 million from the sale, including $160 million to $170 million in after-tax capital gain this year, and the remaining value amortized over the term of the lease.
		Under the terms of the agreement, Hancock will retain the right to lease its current space for the next 10 to 15 years depending on the specific building, with market extension options for up to an additional 25 years.
	www.costar.com /News/Article.aspx?id=A9D5ED047BD0B9A3E17C3C11AF234193 (476 words)

	John Hancock News
		Issue date: 10/31/06 Section: Opinion Last week President Bush put his "John Hancock" on a bill that approves a 700-mile fence on the border between the United States and Mexico.
		John Hancock Funds won seven awards, including "Best Overall Communications" in the mid-sized fund company category, at the Mutual Fund Education Alliance 10th Anniversary STAR Awards celebration in Chicago on...
		John Hancock Daniels, former president and chief executive officer of the Archer Daniels Midland Co. Comment?
	www.topix.net /who/john-hancock?scoring=r (627 words)

	John Hancock Tower Boston by I.M. Pei
		The John Hancock Tower is the tallest building in New England, and stands sleekly on its own in Copley Square, away from the high-rise area of Boston's downtown.
		The dominant view when you are close to the building is of the nearby historical buildings reflected with subtle distortions of color and shape in the Hancock Tower's glass.
		With its windows now securely in place, the Hancock Tower has regained its purity and elegance - especially on a sunny day when it appears almost transparent against a deep blue sky.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/hancockboston (288 words)

	John Hancock Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While the low-rise character of adjacent buildings--including such venerable monuments as Richardson's Trinity Church--accentuates the tower's size, architect Henry Cobb respectfully downplayed its proportions with a minimalist design that embraces its neighbors by reflecting their decorative facades in its mirror-glass walls.
		The story of the John Hancock Tower (not to be confused with Chicago's John Hancock Center, also financed by the Mutual Life Insurance Company and completed three years later) was plagued with engineering problems.
		Today, the tower is itself a landmark, attracting visitors who ascend via double-decker elevators to the 60th floor observation deck for impressive city views.
	www.skyscraper.org /EXHIBITIONS/BIG_BUILDINGS/CONTENT/jumbos/j_17.htm (174 words)

	John Hancock Center, Chicago building-landmark from Chicago Traveler
		The John Hancock Center is one of Chicago's most well-known buildings.
		It is the 12th tallest building in the world with 100 floors, including apartments, offices, shops, a hotel, an ice rink, restaurants, its own post office, and radio and television facilities.
		The John Hancock Center was completed in 1969 and features a tapered design for structural and space efficiency.
	www.chicagotraveler.com /attractions/john-hancock-center.html (207 words)

	Ieoh Ming Pei
		The Bank of China Tower of Hong Kong, The John Hancock Tower of Boston and the Louvre Pyramid of Paris, France, are all known for their architectural superiority.
		One of the tallest builidings in the world, The Bank of China Tower uses less steel than a normal building of that size would normally need, due to four triangular shafts that support its tremendous weight.
		This tower was created with the intention of representing the ideals of the Chinese people.
	www.personal.psu.edu /students/t/h/tht111/impei2.htm (699 words)

	iBoston - Your Guide to Massachusetts History
		Though John Hancock Insurance is currently marketing the sale of its headquarters building, the firm is committed to keeping its leadership in Boston.
		At night with its lights off, it is a silent hole cut in the center of the sky.
		After a number of variations of awnings, the company recently planted trees which block the near constant wind associated with the building, while reducing the prominence of the entry.
	www.iboston.org /mcp.php?pid=hancockTower (246 words)

	John Hancock Tower, Boston
		The 740ft/224m high Hancock Tower not only overtops its immediate neighbours but is in fact the highest building in the whole city.
		The finest panoramic view of Boston is to be had from the observatory on the top floor.
		Glass covered John Hancock Tower reflects the sky in Boston.
	www.planetware.com /boston/john-hancock-tower-us-ma-han.htm (112 words)

	John Hancock Tower and Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At 62-stories high, the mirrored rhomboid earned a place in the hearts of longtime Bostonians when the proud structure - criticized at first for being too flamboyant - began shedding window-sized glass panes like huge crystalline tears falling from the face of a gentle giant.
		Locals came to embrace the building once criticized for being too tall, too modern, too glitzy, too...well...too...and came to see it as one of their own - defending its imperfections while heralding its height, strength, poise, and to-die-for view from its 60th floor observatory.
		And while the view is spectacular, so is the audio-visual presentation that describes how Back Bay came to be (it was created by filling marshlands with gravel in the early 1900s) pinpointing where the Hancock Tower would stand in water had that project not created the Back Bay neighborhood.
	www.bostons-best.net /Hancock.htm (567 words)

	JOHN HANCOCK CENTER, Chicago, Illinois - Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Abundant parking at JOHN HANCOCK CENTER and in the neighborhood, close proximity to Lake Shore Drive and convenient feeder ramps to the Kennedy and Dan Ryan expressways make for excellent vehicular access.
		Northwestern (Union Pacific) trains are served in the morning by the CTA #33 bus, a direct shuttle from the Clybourn station (Armitage/Ashland) nonstop to Delaware Place and Michigan Avenue.
		The full-service parking garage at JOHN HANCOCK CENTER is located on floors 4-12 of the building with the garage ramp entrances off of Chestnut and Delaware Streets.
	www.johnhancockcenterchicago.com /transportation.shtml (304 words)

	Chicago/Peoria/Springfield/St. Louis 5 day trip - UrbanPlanet.org
		I went up in the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Tower, however we couldn't go up in the Arch in St. Louis because we didn't have enough time.
		I love the John Hancock tower! The pictures of Chicago were great.
		I didn't really like one over the other, the Sears Tower was higher, but the Hancock Tower had more things to do.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=4851 (863 words)

	Business Ticker - The Boston Globe (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The iconic John Hancock Tower in the Back Bay, designed by I.M. Pei and perhaps Boston's most widely known building, is going up for sale, about 3 1/2 years after Boston-based Beacon Capital Partners LLC bought the complex for $910 million.
		The Hancock complex, on Clarendon and Berkeley streets in the Back Bay, included the tower, two other office buildings, and a 900-car parking garage.
		The mirrored, 60-floor Hancock Tower, built in the 1970s, was initially plagued by windows that fell out.
	www.boston.com.cob-web.org:8888 /business/ticker/2006/09/john_hancock_to.html (367 words)

	Rod's Photo Gallery: John Hancock Center Tower
		The John Hancock Center Tower, built in 1970, is 100 stories tall and located on N. Michigan Avenue.
		The structure contains 2.8 million square ft., 711 apartments, offices, restaurants, a swimming pool, and an ice skating rink.
		The firm received the American Institute of Architects' 1999 25-year award in recognition of the John Hancock Center's enduring design.
	home.neo.rr.com /rodsphotogallery/CityLife/Chicago/HTML/Hancock.html (172 words)

	John Hancock Insurance and Financial Services
		At John Hancock, we're all about helping you plan for the future and so that you can fulfill your dreams for tomorrow.
		, today John Hancock is a leading provider of financial services and products that enable you to take control of your finances and create the future you desire.
		A servicemark of John Hancock Life Insurance Company and its affiliated companies including Signator Investors, Inc., a broker dealer and registered investment Advisor.
	www.johnhancock.com (302 words)

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