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Frederick Law Olmsted’s celebrated Emerald Necklace often eclipses his five smaller, isolated parks in Boston, like Wood Island Park in East Boston. Though this plan shows a simple park featuring few walks and a playing field, Olmsted would transform Wood Island into his largest neighborhood park, with forty-six acres of public beach, picnic areas, tennis courts, outdoor gymnasiums for men and women, playgrounds, and several promenades. Despite its popularity, the park was razed for the expansion of Logan Airport in the mid-20th century, setting off decades of community activism and park advocacy.
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js956m04m
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Preliminary plan for Wood Island Park, East Boston
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map
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1
Source metadata
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js956m04m
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map
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normalized
title
Preliminary plan for Wood Island Park, East Boston
description
Frederick Law Olmsted’s celebrated Emerald Necklace often eclipses his five smaller, isolated parks in Boston, like Wood Island Park in East Boston. Though this plan shows a simple park featuring few walks and a playing field, Olmsted would transform Wood Island into his largest neighborhood park, with forty-six acres of public beach, picnic areas, tennis courts, outdoor gymnasiums for men and women, playgrounds, and several promenades. Despite its popularity, the park was razed for the expansion of Logan Airport in the mid-20th century, setting off decades of community activism and park advocacy.
date
["[1884]"]
year
1884
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_003890
creators
Boston (Mass.). Park Commissioners
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Parks--Massachusetts--Boston
East Boston (Boston, Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
East Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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largeImageUrl
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1
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Boston, Mass
publisher
s.n.
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
citySection
East Boston
schema:latitude
42.3667
schema:longitude
-71.0333
extent
1 plan ; 36 x 68 cm.
notes
Oriented with north toward the upper left.
Inset: Key map showing connection of park with existing street system and railroads of East Boston.
Includes four sections of the grounds.
"F.L. Olmsted, landscape architect."
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no
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js956m04m
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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