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Preliminary plan for widening Chestnut Hill Avenue

1 pp 1891

Detailed plan for the widening of Chestnut Hill Avenue, between Beacon Street and Boylston Street, just across the Reservoir from Boston College.

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Preliminary study of a plan for a Pleasure Bay between Dorchester Point and Castle Island

1 pp 1884

Olmsted envisioned Marine Park as the final jewel in the Emerald Necklace, linked to Franklin Park by a greenway along Columbia Road. The greenway was never constructed and Marine Park remains disconnected from the park system. However, the City of Boston has proposed a green link along Columbia Road to realize Olmsted’s vision. Shown here, Olmsted’s plan expanded City Point, shaping a semi-circular cove for swimming and boating. The plan includes a boardwalk for promenades along the water and a playground for schoolchildren. In the 1920s, Castle Island was connected to Marine Park by filling land and constructing stone causeways and mechanical tide gates.

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Prichard & Roberts' new Chester guide

1 pp 1850

Relief shown pictorially.

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Profile of Huntington Avenue/St. James Avenue from Harcourt Street to Berkeley Street

1 pp 1990

Manuscript profile in ink on a translucent mylar sheet depicting buildings and trees along the south side of Huntington Avenue/St. James Avenue from Harcourt Street to Berkeley Street.

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Property atlas of city of Lowell, northern district, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, showing the entire city complete in one volume

1 pp 1936

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Property map town of Bellingham sheet 98

1 pp 1996

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Property map, South Cove urban renewal area R-92

1 pp 1965

Shows each parcel in this downtown urban renewal area. Gives block number and parcel number of each block and indicates properties to be acquired.

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Property map, South Cove urban renewal area R-92

1 pp 1965

Shows each parcel in this downtown urban renewal area. Gives block number and parcel number of each block and indicates properties to be acquired.

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Proposed Charles River Park

1 pp 1880

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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