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A set of drafts and final site plan of Sears Park at the intersection of Brookline Avenue and Park Drive in Fenway. Map 1 is a photocopy of a manuscript map outlining buildings, roads, railroad, paths and Muddy River, with some widths. Map 2 is photocopy of the same map as map 1 with manuscript annotations and corrections. Map 3 is a manuscript map overlay in ink on tracing paper with added buildings, paths, and widths. Map 4 is a photocopy of map 2, with manuscript additions of paths and roads in pencil, ink, and colored. Map 5 is a manuscript map overlay in ink on tracing paper showing trees in Sears Park. Map 6 is finalized version with manuscript annotations in pencil. Map 7 is the final map showing historic waterways, twin conduits, limit of work for conduit removal and waterway excavation, Brookline Ave. subsurface gatehouse, existing trees to be incorporated in park design, trees to be planted before waterway restoration, trees to be planted after waterway restoration and FEMA limit of floodplain.
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Document identity
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bz60gc13n
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Sears Park conceptual site plan with historic waterway
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obj
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map
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1
Source metadata
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bz60gc13n
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map
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normalized
title
Sears Park conceptual site plan with historic waterway
description
A set of drafts and final site plan of Sears Park at the intersection of Brookline Avenue and Park Drive in Fenway. Map 1 is a photocopy of a manuscript map outlining buildings, roads, railroad, paths and Muddy River, with some widths. Map 2 is photocopy of the same map as map 1 with manuscript annotations and corrections. Map 3 is a manuscript map overlay in ink on tracing paper with added buildings, paths, and widths. Map 4 is a photocopy of map 2, with manuscript additions of paths and roads in pencil, ink, and colored. Map 5 is a manuscript map overlay in ink on tracing paper showing trees in Sears Park. Map 6 is finalized version with manuscript annotations in pencil. Map 7 is the final map showing historic waterways, twin conduits, limit of work for conduit removal and waterway excavation, Brookline Ave. subsurface gatehouse, existing trees to be incorporated in park design, trees to be planted before waterway restoration, trees to be planted after waterway restoration and FEMA limit of floodplain.
date
["November 1989"]
year
1989
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_017855A
creators
Boston Redevelopment Authority
Sweesy, Robin A.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Boston Redevelopment Authority Collection
subjects
Parks--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Landscape gardening--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
City planning--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Fenway (Boston, Mass.)--Maps
Fenway (Boston, Mass.)--History--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Fens
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
genreSpecific
Manuscript maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
[Boston]
publisher
[Boston Redevelopment Authority]
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
citySection
Fens
extent
7 maps : hand colored ; sheets 61 x 78 cm
notes
Maps 1-5 on base map titled Sears Park vicinity 1892 vs. 1989 / R.E. Sweesy 11/6/89.
Maps 6 and 7 oriented with north to the upper left.
Includes cross section of elevation from Riverway to Park Drive.
Note on Sears Park vicinity map: Historic information is taken from the Olmsted plan of 1892: "Plan of the parkway between Muddy River gate house and Jamaica Park." Current information is taken from city of Boston street maps.
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bz60gc13n
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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