Boston : a topographical history / Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy.

Main entry:

Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978.

Title & Author:

Boston : a topographical history / Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy.

Edition:

3rd ed., enl.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.

Description:

xlix, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-363) and index.
"Fittest for such as can trade into England" -- The Eighteenth Century -- The Boston of Bulfinch -- Cutting Down the Hills to Fill the Coves -- Railroads and Immigrants -- The Flight from the South End -- The Filling of the Back Bay -- The Westward Movement -- A Decade of Renewal -- A Beacon once More -- Toward the New Millennium -- Appendix -- Index.

Summary:

"This book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence W. Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline. Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping human the features of a beloved city."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0674002679 (cloth)
9780674002678 (cloth)
0674002687 (pbk.)
9780674002685 (pbk.)

Subject:

Historic buildings Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture Massachusetts Boston History.
Maisons historiques Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture Massachusetts Boston Histoire.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Historic buildings.
Travel.
Geschichte
Boston (Mass.) History.
Boston (Mass.) Description and travel.
Boston (Mass.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Boston (Mass.) Histoire.
Boston (Mass.) Descriptions et voyages.
Boston (Mass.) Constructions.
Massachusetts Boston.
Boston, Mass.
Boston (Mass.)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Kennedy, Lawrence W., 1952-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211101
Call No.: NA735 .B7 W4 2000
Status: Available

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