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By the late 19th century, Boston was a flourishing industrial city, but this success cost many workers their health, as they performed sedentary jobs in enclosed, dirty spaces. Cambridge manufacturer Charles Davenport proposed an esplanade running along the Charles River and parallel to Commonwealth Avenue. Shown here, this water park was intended to provide relief to city dwellers. The Charles River Esplanade that we recognize today, however, was yet to come: built in 1910 as part of the Charles River Dam construction, the Esplanade—known then as the Boston Embankment—would be expanded in the 1920s and 1930s by landscape designer Arthur Shurcliff.
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wd376646w
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Proposed Charles River Park
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map
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1
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wd376646w
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map
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normalized
title
Proposed Charles River Park
description
By the late 19th century, Boston was a flourishing industrial city, but this success cost many workers their health, as they performed sedentary jobs in enclosed, dirty spaces. Cambridge manufacturer Charles Davenport proposed an esplanade running along the Charles River and parallel to Commonwealth Avenue. Shown here, this water park was intended to provide relief to city dwellers. The Charles River Esplanade that we recognize today, however, was yet to come: built in 1910 as part of the Charles River Dam construction, the Esplanade—known then as the Boston Embankment—would be expanded in the 1920s and 1930s by landscape designer Arthur Shurcliff.
date
["[1880?]"]
year
1880
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_002644
creators
Davenport, Charles.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Parks--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Parks--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Maps
City planning--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
City planning--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Maps
Boston (Mass.)--Maps
Cambridge (Mass.)--Maps
Charles River (Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Cambridge
Charles
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Middlesex
city
Cambridge
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
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import
pubPlace
Boston, Mass
publisher
J.H. Bufford's Sons
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
42.3667
schema:longitude
-71.1
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 48 x 55 cm.
notes
Shows part of Cambridge.
"To be obtained at A. William & Co."
Insets: View from the foot of Mt. Vernon St. -- [Map of Boston and vicinity].
Includes table of areas and radial distances from City Hall.
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no
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wd376646w
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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