"It's going to be a quiet season," said Lilli Gordon, president of the Gordon Group, a Boston-based firm that advises investors on proxy battles.

The Boston-based firm is trying to create a financial product that will allow people to amass tax-free savings accounts for college by purchasing goods from certain vendors.

She started her PR career at Regan Communications, a Boston-based firm founded by a former press secretary of Boston Mayor Kevin White.

In the early 1890s, plans for the present church were drawn up in by the Boston-based architectural firm of Cram, Wentworth & Goodhue.

A.T.M. fees now add up to $4.5 billion annually, according to Dove Consulting, a Boston-based firm.

In 1942, the firm merged with Burr, Gannett & Co., an old Boston-based firm.

Though the Boston-based firm did not say so, the likely buyer is thought to be Gruntal & Company, a New York brokerage.

Stone & Webster, a Boston-based firm, was the construction company.

It was designed in the Georgian Revival style by the Boston-based architectural firm of Andrews, Jacques & Rantoul and built at a cost of $337,000.

Both players were represented by Dennis Coleman, a lawyer with the Boston-based firm of Ropes & Gray.