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Images of America Boston’s Back Bay in the Victorian Era by Anthony M Sammarco
Images of America Bostons Back Bay in the Victorian Era by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Soft Cover
Copyright 2003
128 pages
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments6
Introduction7
1.The Boston Public Garden11
2.Gilman's Vision31
3.Places of Worship37
4.Back Bay Institutions51
5.The Back Bay59
6.Copley Square97
7. Transportation115
BOSTON'S BACK BAY, MASSACHUSETTS
The Back Bay was one of Boston's premier residential i neighborhoods between 1837 and 1901. From its quagmire beginnings and with the creation of the Boston Public. Garden in the 1830s, the Back Bay was envisioned as an urbane and sophisticated streetscape of stone and brick row houses. The major center of the neighborhood became Art Square, now known as Copley Square, which was surrounded by Trinity Church, New Old South Church, Second Church of Boston, the Boston Public Library, and S.S. Pierce and Company. With images of swan boats and architectural delights, Boston's Back Bay in the Victorian Era illuminates a particularly vibrant period in this intriguing and relatively new neighborhood's past.
Anthony Mitchell Sammarco has authored more than forty books on the history and development of Boston, and this is his second book on the Back Bay. Sammarco has received numerous awards in recognition of his historical teaching and writing, including the Charles Bulfinch Award from the Doric Dames of the Massachusetts State House and the. Washington Medal of Honor from the. Freedom Foundation.
The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title, presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all.
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