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Boston’s largest park, Franklin Park is considered the “crown jewel” of the Emerald Necklace. To Olmsted, rural scenery offered a physical and visual contrast with the crowding and artificiality of the city, allowing visitors to relax physically and emotionally, consciously and unconsciously. This park plan features dense marginal text in which Olmsted laid out his vision for a country park adorned simply with paths, natural ledges, and native plantings, trimmed not by lawn mowers but by grazing sheep. Franklin Park never fully achieved Olmsted’s original vision, but evolved to feature a woodland preserve and open fields, as well as a zoo, public golf course, pedestrian and bridle paths, a stadium, and other recreational facilities.
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Document identity
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js956k964
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General plan of Franklin Park
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map
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1
Source metadata
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js956k964
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map
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normalized
title
General plan of Franklin Park
description
Boston’s largest park, Franklin Park is considered the “crown jewel” of the Emerald Necklace. To Olmsted, rural scenery offered a physical and visual contrast with the crowding and artificiality of the city, allowing visitors to relax physically and emotionally, consciously and unconsciously. This park plan features dense marginal text in which Olmsted laid out his vision for a country park adorned simply with paths, natural ledges, and native plantings, trimmed not by lawn mowers but by grazing sheep. Franklin Park never fully achieved Olmsted’s original vision, but evolved to feature a woodland preserve and open fields, as well as a zoo, public golf course, pedestrian and bridle paths, a stadium, and other recreational facilities.
date
["1885"]
year
1885
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_003939
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Parks--Massachusetts--Boston--Dorchester--Maps
Franklin Park (Boston, Mass.)--Maps
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Dorchester
Franklin Park
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Maps
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Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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1
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import
pubPlace
Boston, Mass
publisher
[Parks and Recreation Dept.]
Source extras
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sf268508b
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9s1621613
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42.3014871
schema:longitude
-71.0944958
extent
1 plan ; 69 x 87 cm.
notes
Oriented with north toward the upper right.
Includes tables of areas, distances, lenghts and text.
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no
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js956k964
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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