Giant Pear (Clapp's Favorite Pear)

The pear was created by Somerville artist Laura Baring-Gould, who the Globe says worked on it for five years. According to Boston.com, she was chosen for the square in 2005, based the work on a three-inch pear from Washington state, scaled it to two feet and then to 12 feet, and had it moulded in Thailand. It was placed two years later, and the Globe dates the redesigned square to 2007. "I was working to find a visual form that would be a radical departure from Boston's white men on horses," she told the Globe.

In 2010, ten smaller sculptures were unveiled around it, including dog tags, a rotary phone and a pair of shoes cast from real objects, with quotes from community members inscribed on the bollards. Boston.com says Baring-Gould wanted the pieces to be something people could touch.

The square sits at a six-way intersection used by thousands of motorists heading for the Expressway, the Globe says. Boston.com reported in 2024 that the artist and a local organiser were raising money through a GoFundMe to clean and revitalise it.