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Providing the link between the Public Garden and the Emerald Necklace, the Commonwealth Avenue Mall was Boston’s answer to majestic Parisian boulevards. Designed by architect Arthur Gilman, and incorporated into the park system in 1894, Commonwealth Avenue Mall was the centerpiece of the Back Bay’s widest and most manicured thoroughfare. The Mall extends from the Public Garden to present-day Massachusetts Avenue. To create a uniform and appealing space, strict building codes were enforced along the avenue. The result is a grand spatial corridor comprised of stately homes and deliberate green spaces.
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Document identity
localId
1257c485p
label
Atlas of the city of Boston, Boston proper and Back Bay
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
1257c485p
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Atlas of the city of Boston, Boston proper and Back Bay
description
Providing the link between the Public Garden and the Emerald Necklace, the Commonwealth Avenue Mall was Boston’s answer to majestic Parisian boulevards. Designed by architect Arthur Gilman, and incorporated into the park system in 1894, Commonwealth Avenue Mall was the centerpiece of the Back Bay’s widest and most manicured thoroughfare. The Mall extends from the Public Garden to present-day Massachusetts Avenue. To create a uniform and appealing space, strict building codes were enforced along the avenue. The result is a grand spatial corridor comprised of stately homes and deliberate green spaces.
date
["1938"]
year
1938
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_013969
creators
G.W. Bromley & Co.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Boston (Mass.)--Maps
Real property--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Landowners--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Back Bay (Boston, Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Back Bay
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Philadelphia
publisher
G.W. Bromley & Co.
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
citySection
Back Bay
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.0833
extent
1 map : color ; 51 x 77 cm
hasTranscription
no
dcId
1257c485p
type
map
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
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de5cd8ee7a720e39