Download or read book Charles Street Jail written by Joseph McMaster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nearly a century and a half of continuous use, Boston's Charles Street Jail was a bustling crossroads where the famous and infamous rubbed elbows. Everyone from Whitey Bulger to a captured German U-boat captain to a future mayor of Boston--to name just a few--served time there. When it opened in 1851, the Charles Street Jail was hailed as a model for the humanitarian treatment of prisoners. Over time, though, as the jail grew increasingly outmoded, its name became virtually synonymous with corruption, misery, and overcrowding. In a landmark legal case in 1973, the courts ordered the jail closed, finding its conditions so bad they violated inmates' constitutional rights. After sitting vacant and deteriorating for many years, the magnificent, historic granite structure recently gained a new lease on life when it was renovated and transformed into a luxury hotel. Today, the building welcomes guests of a sort the old clientele could scarcely have imagined.
Download or read book Charles Street Jail Records written by Abram Pevey and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the story of the case on the intersection in Boston. The place is hailed as a model for the humane treatment of prisoners. However, over time, as prison became increasingly obsolete, its name became almost synonymous with corruption, misery, and overcrowding. In a landmark legal case in 1973, the courts ordered the prison to be closed, finding its conditions dire and violating the constitutional rights of prisoners. After being left vacant and degraded for years, the magnificent, Historic Granite Building recently gained a new lease as it was renovated and transformed into a luxury hotel .
Download or read book Charles Street Jail Pictures written by Percy Zielesch and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the story of the case on the intersection in Boston. The place is hailed as a model for the humane treatment of prisoners. However, over time, as prison became increasingly obsolete, its name became almost synonymous with corruption, misery, and overcrowding. In a landmark legal case in 1973, the courts ordered the prison to be closed, finding its conditions dire and violating the constitutional rights of prisoners. After being left vacant and degraded for years, the magnificent, Historic Granite Building recently gained a new lease as it was renovated and transformed into a luxury hotel .
Download or read book The Charles Street Jail written by Robert B. MacKay and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charles Street Jail written by Robert Battin MacKay and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Street Jail Architecture written by Eugenio Stoen and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the story of the case on the intersection in Boston. The place is hailed as a model for the humane treatment of prisoners. However, over time, as prison became increasingly obsolete, its name became almost synonymous with corruption, misery, and overcrowding. In a landmark legal case in 1973, the courts ordered the prison to be closed, finding its conditions dire and violating the constitutional rights of prisoners. After being left vacant and degraded for years, the magnificent, Historic Granite Building recently gained a new lease as it was renovated and transformed into a luxury hotel .
Download or read book The Charles Street Jail Reuse written by Leo G. McGill and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Proposal for the Renovation of the Charles Street Jail written by John Coburn and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Street Jail written by Andrea Ginnetti and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multi use Complex for the Charles Street Jail Site written by Eileen Lesko Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Boston Today written by Mary Melvin Petronella and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated guidebook to the many distinctive attractions of Boston's Victorian heritage provides the walker and the armchair traveler alike with delightful and enlightening discoveries of the city's remarkable treasure trove of nineteenth-century landmarks and luminaries. Victorian Boston Today, edited by Mary Melvin Petronella for the New England Chapter of the Victorian Society of America, includes a beautifully drawn map for each tour, and contains such features as expanded descriptive captions for the profuse vintage illustrations, telephone numbers and web addresses for sites open to the public, directions between tour sites, information about public transportation, and a wealth of other practical enhancements and tips. From the South End's signature residential squares to the Black Heritage Trail to Jamaica Plain's pastoral landscape, these walking tours vividly recapture the spirit of Victorian Boston. The guidebook will fascinate Boston residents, tourists, and historians, and it will provide inspiration for the active preservation of the city's magnificent buildings and neighborhoods.
Download or read book A People s Guide to Greater Boston written by Joseph Nevins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. The sites to which we do 'travel' include homes given that people's struggles, activism, and organizing sometimes unfold, or are even birthed in many cases in living rooms and kitchens. Trying to capture a place as diverse and dynamic as Boston is highly challenging. (One could say that about any 'big' place.) We thus want to make clear that our goal is not to be comprehensive, or to 'do justice' to the region. Given the constraints of space and time as well as the limitations of knowledge--both our own and what is available in published form--there are many important sites, cities, and towns that we have not included. Thus, in exploring scores of sites across Boston and numerous municipalities, our modest goal is to paint a suggestive portrait of the greater urban area that highlights its long-contested nature. In many ways, we merely scratch the region's surface--or many surfaces--given the multiple layers that any one place embodies. In writing about Greater Boston as a place, we run the risk of suggesting that the city writ-large has some sort of essence. Indeed, the very notion of a particular place assumes intrinsic characteristics and an associated delimited space. After all, how can one distinguish one place from another if it has no uniqueness and is not geographically differentiated? Nonetheless, geographer Doreen Massey insists that we conceive of places as progressive, as flowing over the boundaries of any particular space, time, or society; in other words, we should see places as processual or ever-changing, as unbounded in that they shape and are shaped by other places and forces from without, and as having multiple identities. In exploring Greater Boston from many venues over 400 years, we embrace this approach. That said, we have to reconcile this with the need to delimit Greater Boston--for among other reasons, simply to be in a position to name it and thus distinguish it from elsewhere"--
Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Nancy S. Seasholes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Download or read book Harvard written by Bainbridge Bunting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Harvard's architecture examines the Federal architecture of Charles Bulfinch, H.H. Richardson's Romanesque buildings, the Imperial manner reflected in Widener Library, and the work of other architects such as Charles McKim, Gropius and Le Corbusier.
Download or read book The Majesty of St Charles Avenue written by McCaffety, Kerri and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of St. Charles Avenue as a pictorial biography of the grandest thoroughfare of America's most romantic city. Many of these interiors have never been published.
Download or read book Official Reports of the Supreme Court written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
