Patrick Winn
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I agree. And it also looks like these areas were indeed connected before the construction of the pike. I compared a map from 1950 (which showed dense residential neighborhoods) to a current map (which shows the pike severing them) at this site: http://www.bostonplans.org/3d-data-...the-boston-atlas/single-sheet-historical-mapsI don’t think this is true.
The MFA, Isabella Stuart Museum, Simmons, Emmanuel, Boston Latin, Winsor, and Harvard Medical all date to the 1900s or 1910s. Furthermore, the park through the Fens was laid out by Olmsted as early as 1887.
The filling in of the river to make a parking lot and construction of the big mass of roads especially where Brookline meets Boylston occurred in the 1950s.
Here’s a nice write up:
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Muddy River Restoration - The Emerald Necklace Conservancy
www.emeraldnecklace.org