Download or read book The Boston Globe Historic Walks in Old Boston written by John Harris and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide includes forty walks through Boston's major historic areas including: Beacon Hill, the Common, and Cambridge. With information such as history of the area, architecture, politics, religion, and intrigues of the past.
Download or read book The Boston Globe Historic Walks in Old Boston written by John Harris and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide includes forty walks through Boston's major historic areas including: Beacon Hill, the Common, and Cambridge. With information such as history of the area, architecture, politics, religion, and intrigues of the past.
Download or read book The Boston Globe Historic Walks in Cambridge written by John Harris and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Walks in Old Boston written by John Harris and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boston s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them written by Joseph M. Bagley and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date 1800 and illustrate Boston?s early history. This is the first book to survey Boston?s fifty oldest buildings and does so through an approachable narrative which will appeal to nonarchitects and those new to historic preservation. Beginning with a map of the buildings? locations and an overview of the historic preservation movement in Boston, the book looks at the fifty buildings in order from oldest to most recent. Geographically, the majority of the buildings are located within the downtown area of Boston along the Freedom Trail and within easy walking distance from the core of the city. This makes the book an ideal guide for tourists, and residents of the city will also find it interesting as it includes numerous properties in the surrounding neighborhoods. The buildings span multiple uses from homes to churches and warehouses to restaurants. Each chapter features a building, a narrative focusing on its historical significance, and the efforts made to preserve it over time. Full color photos and historical drawings illustrate each building and area. Boston?s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them presents the ideals of historic preservation in an approachable and easy-to-read manner appropriate for the broadest audience. Perfect for history lovers, architectural enthusiasts, and tourists alike.
Download or read book The Boston Globe Guide to Boston written by Jerry Morris and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seamless blend of past and present, Boston offers an inexhaustible supply of places to go and things to do. Come and explore the Hub of New England - its modern attractions as well as its monuments to liberty. This guide offers valuable information on walking tours, touring by auto, historical sites, and famous museums. Learn about Cambridge, the city across the Charles that combines grand traditions and classic art with an international community. This handy guide is also filled with practical tips on public transportation, accommodations, dining, entertainment, shopping, and sports and recreation. Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition also includes 13 new day trips from Boston, to destinations including Lexington, Concord, Salem, and Cape Cod.
Download or read book Chronicles of Old Boston written by Charles Bahne and published by Museyon. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover one of !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--America's most historic cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning Boston's 400-year history, and then visit the places where history happened on walking tours of the city's historic neighborhoods. Boston expert Charles Bahne reveals some of the city's most shocking moments, from a murder mystery on the Harvard campus to the mistake that sent two million gallons of molasses pouring down Commerce Street. Other essays explore major historic events including the Boston Tea Party and the ride of Paul Revere to the establishment of the Red Sox and Fenway Park. The book also contains stories about John Hancock, Charles Bulfinch, Fredrick Law Olmsted, Alexander Graham Bell, Isabella Stewart Gardner, the Kennedys, and more.
Download or read book Boston written by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the Massachusetts State House as the "Hub of the Universe." In Boston: A Historic Walking Tour, readers are guided on a series of downtown walking tours that radiate out from this Boston landmark. Featuring different excursions that explore Boston's prominent neighborhoods and districts, visitors and natives alike will see how this city has become one of the country's oldest cultural destinations. Boston's growth and development in the 19th and 20th centuries has contributed to it becoming the unofficial "Capital of New England"; its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region is far reaching. Although Boston is known for its notoriously crooked streets and narrow alleys, it is a mecca for walkers looking to take in historic sites and surround themselves with history. Walk along Tremont, Washington, Beacon, and Summer Streets to explore downtown Boston. Saunter down Beacon Street on Beacon Hill and Boylston Street in the Back Bay to take in the city's most beloved sites.
Download or read book The Boston Globe Guide to Boston written by Jerry Morris and published by . This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seamless blend of past and present, Boston offers an inexhaustible supply of places to go and things to do. Come and explore "the Hub" of New England - its modern attractions as well as its monuments to liberty. This guide offers valuable information on walking tours, touring by auto, historical sites, and famous museums. Learn about Cambridge, the city across the Charles that combines grand traditions and classic art with an international community. This handy guide is also filled with practical tips on public transportation, accommodations, dining, entertainment, shopping, and sports and recreation. Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition also includes 13 new day trips from Boston, to destinations including Lexington, Concord, Salem, and Cape Cod.
Download or read book Walks Talks about Historic Boston written by Albert William Mann and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom Trail Boston written by Anna Mantzaris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residents and visitors alike can journey back in time as they follow Boston’s 2 1⁄2-mile Freedom Trail past twenty-six historic landmarks that embody pivotal events in the formation of America—including the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument. Timeline Books These one-of-a-kind guides allow readers to move through time as never before, bringing them face to face with the people and events behind some of America’s most important historical landmarks and locations. No other guidebooks draw so much on the first-hand accounts of those involved in the historic events that transpired in the areas covered—making readers feel as if they are experiencing living history. Each book features: * Two popout® maps—a historical map showing the area as it once was; and a modern map marking every stop on the tour and place mentioned in the text. * Additional color maps and up to 40-60 photos, both historical and modern * An introduction by an expert that sets the area in historical context * A timeline showing key historical events * A detailed walking tour of the present-day site, interspersed with first-hand accounts interspersed in the text or included as sidebars * Concise and colorful biographies of key historical figures * Where to stay and eat, and places to visit nearby
Download or read book Boston Women s Heritage Trail written by Polly Welts Kaufman and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women have played active, prominent roles in Boston history since the days of Anne Hutchinson - the colonial freethinker who bravely challenged the authority of ruling Puritan ministers in 1638. Hutchinson's action is only one of more than 200 stories of Boston women told in the newly expanded guidebook from the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Several maps indicate the sites where these historic women walked, worked, and lived, while photographs and other illustrations help bring these women to life once again. The updated guidebook will take you on seven walks through seven distinctly different Boston neighborhoods. Hutchinson's story is told by her statue on the grounds of the Massachusetts State House, while Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's is found at the site of her birthplace in the North End. An underground railway stop on Beacon Hill reveals the dramatic escape of enslaved Ellen and William Craft to Boston. Other trails lead walkers to new statues of Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman in the South End and of Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone and Phillis Wheatley - three women who used the pen for change - portrayed in bronze in the recently dedicated Boston Women's Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue. The Boston Women's Heritage Trail guidebook is a must for visitors, students, and residents of Boston alike. Its lively descriptions show the significant role Boston women played in shaping the history and the future of both Boston and the nation."
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 Historic Boston written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boston s Historic Hub written by David Lyon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the oldest black church in the country, an Arts-and-Crafts-style artists' studio building, a concrete football stadium, and an acoustically perfect performance space have in common? They are all National Historic Landmarks located in Boston. In fact, the city boasts more National Historic Landmarks per square mile than any other major city in the country. Given Boston's long history and record of accomplishments, it's really not surprising that 57 properties—from the nation's oldest subway tunnel to a floating lighthouse—have received this designation. Add in the adjoining cities of Cambridge and Brookline and the number swells. Historic Boston includes the most rewarding and easily visited landmarks. That's a lot of history in 103 square miles. The Secretary of the Interior designates the status of National Historic Landmark to places considered “exceptional because of their abilities to illustrate U.S. heritage.” More simply put, they are the places that resonate broadly with us, that we cherish, and want to pass on to future generations. The list is surprisingly diverse. In metro Boston, it includes an historic church with a stunning collection of Tiffany windows, a Transcendentalist community, a Grand Banks schooner, and the home and studio of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Download or read book Paul Hogarth s Walking Tours of Old Boston written by Paul Hogarth and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1978 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One April in Boston written by Ben L. Edwards and published by Spyglass Books, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One April in Boston is the story of a real American family and a gift that was passed down from generation to generation. It teaches American history, the power of imagination, and the value of goal setting. In this unique book you will learn the real story of Paul Revere’s midnight ride; witness the first shots of the American Revolution; attend the reading of the Declaration of Independence in Boston on July 18, 1776; visit the Paul Revere House in 1909; and much more. After researching his Boston ancestors for six years, author Ben Edwards has crafted a tale that not only tells their story by tying in real connections to Paul Revere and Abraham Lincoln, but honors his relative Private Philip Edwards by revealing the gift he gave to the neighborhood children before leaving for France to fight in World War I and passing into legend. When the story begins in April 1775, 10-year-old Ben Edwards carries a spyglass that once belonged to his grandfather, an early Boston sea captain. Ben believes he can glimpse the future through its lens. His goal is to work on a sailing ship and see the world. Can the spyglass and a member of the Sons of Liberty help Ben on his journey? Will his predictions about the future come true? By reading the book you’ll discover that Ben’s gift is something we all possess, a power that can help you on your own life’s journey—if you believe in it.
