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1999
GUSN-170018
Enlarging the narrow Shawmut Peninsula to create the residential district called Back Bay is Boston's best-known topographical creation. But land was repeatedly made in the West End as well for wharves, less fashionable dwellings, and the city's necessary institutions--a hospital, a jail, and an almshouse.
Article ID 524
SC001
Old-Time New England
SC001.1999.077.266.003
Enlarging the narrow Shawmut Peninsula to create the residential district called Back Bay is Boston's best-known topographical creation. But land was repeatedly made in the West End as well for wharves, less fashionable dwellings, and the city's necessary institutions--a hospital, a jail, and an almshouse.
Volume 77, Number 266 (Spring/Summer 1999)
Nancy S. Seasholes (Author)
(1999). Old Time New England. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
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Boston, Mass.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Old Time New England
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