Identifier: bostonguidebook1910baco (find matches)
Title: Boston, a guide book
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916 National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting (1910 : Boston, Mass.)
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Ginn and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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own as Boston Commons. It was setoff as an independent town only in 1705, when the name of Brooklynwas given it, and its inhabitants were enjoyned to build a meeting-house and obtain an Orthodox minister, — so closely were civic andecclesiastical prerogatives blended in the government then. We may reach Brookline from Boston easily, quickly, and cheaply no BACK BAY FENS by several routes. The Newton Circuit line of the New York CentralRailroad (South Station, or Trinity Place Station, a few steps fromCopley Square) skirts and traverses the town, and has four stationswithin its borders. Various trolley lines cover it more generally, — viaTremont Street and Roxbury Crossing to Brookline Village ; via Boyls-ton and Ipswich streets and Brookline Avenue to the same point; viaBeacon Street to the Chestnut Hill reservoir; via Huntington Avenueand Brookline Village to several destinations. For the purpose of rapidexploration the trolley is superior to the steam railway, and the last-named
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Agassiz Bridge in the Fens line is the most convenient. In the Subway, or on Boylston Street orHuntington Avenue, or at Copley Square we may take any outward-boundcar bearing the legend Brookline Village via Huntington Avenue. Leaving Copley Square we soon pass the succession of notable build-ings about and beyond Massachusetts Avenue, and presently traverse asomewhat open territory, observing, as we pass, the Opera House, theMuseum of Fine Arts, and other institutions described on pp. 91-91 F.On the left, overlooking the expansive grounds of the Base Ball Club,southward, we get a fair view of the roofs and towers of the Roxburydistrict of the city. On our right, beyond the expanse of land reclaimedfrom the primeval salt marsh, we catch glimpses of the Back Bay Fens,part of the Boston City Parks System (ultimately to be developed intoa region of rare beauty but now in spots forlorn), which follow thegeneral course of the tortuous Muddy River from its mouth at the RIVERWAY III Charles

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