Boston's Metropolitan Past: Baxter & Eliot's 1893 Plan

 

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Birnbaum, Charles and Robin Karson. Pioneers of American Landscape Design . New York: McGraw- Hill, 2000.

"Death of Charles Eliot: Eldest Son of Pres Eliot and a Prominent Landscape Architect--His Work to be Seen in the Metropolitan Parks." Boston Daily Globe , March 26, 1897, 8.

Eliot, Charles W. Charles Eliot Landscape Architect , American Society of Landscape Architects Centennial Reprint . Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press in association with Library of American Landscape History, 1999.

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Massachusetts. Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners: Boston Metropolitan Park Report . Boston, 1893.

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Morgan, Keith N. Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect: A Research Guide . Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 1999.

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"Prettier Boston." Boston Daily Globe , March 11 1894, 9.

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"Time is Ripe: 'Greater' Boston Should Extend Its Parks. Breathing Places Demanded for People. Other Large Cities Way Ahead of Us. Mr. Eliot's Plan and What It Would Have Done." Boston Daily Globe , October 5,1891, 8.

Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston 1870-1900 . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press and M.I.T. Press, 1962.

Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston: A Topographical History . second, enlarged ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968.