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Back Bay Through Time

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In his new book Anthony M. Sammarco outlines the Back Bay of Boston, a neighborhood of the city that may be not just the quintessential Victorian neighborhood of the 19th century, but one that was once infilled and planned as the premier residential and institutional development.
Begun in the late 1850s when the marshlands west of the Boston Public Garden were infilled through the ingenuity of John Souther, the Back Bay was once to turn into a massive project that took over three decades to complete. With fill brought by gondola cars from Needham, Massachusetts six days a week, twenty-four hours a day, each and every 45 minutes, the fill had an average depth of 20 feet and the expanse of the Back Bay to be filled was once more or less 460 acres. A monumental task, it was once said that such a success was once the venture that by 1885, only a small area was once left to be infilled near the Back Bay Fens.
On this photographic history of the Back Bay of Boston Anthony M. Sammarco, with the latest photographs of Peter B. Kingman, has created an enchanting book that chronicles the neighborhood from the late nineteenth century through to nowadays. Walking along Arlington, Boylston, Newbury Streets, Commonwealth, Huntington and Massachusetts Avenues and stopping at Park Square and Copley Square, this visually fascinating book offers an enchanting glimpse of the Back Bay of Boston Through Time.

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