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By 1900 the Back Bay residential area had almost ceased to grow. After 1910 only thirty new houses were constructed, after 1917 none at all. Instead of paying high prices for filled land on which to erect a home within walking distance of his office, the potential home builder escaped to the suburbs
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The Back Bay Architectural District, somewhat smaller than "Back Bay" as defined by the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay, is bounded by "the centerlines of Back Street on the north, Embankment Road and Arlington Street on the east, Boylston Street on the south, and Charlesgate East on the
551:), Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester, and Hereford. An 1874 guidebook noted the trisyllabic-disyllabic alternation of that alphabetic sequence; the series continues in the adjacent Fenway neighborhood with Ipswich, Jersey, and Kilmarnock Streets. West of Hereford are 577:, and is considered one of the best-preserved examples of 19th-century urban architecture in the United States. In 1966, the Massachusetts Legislature, "to safeguard the heritage of the city of Boston by preventing the despoliation" of the Back Bay, created the 370:
entering from the west. This bay was tidal: the water rose and fell several feet over the course of each day, and at low tide much of the bay's bed was exposed as a marshy flat. As early as 5,200 years before present, Native Americans built
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area, with mills barely visible near juncture with the Mill Dam) were part of an attempt to derive mill power from river tides. Trees along north-south waterline represent western boundary (now Arlington Street) of the
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recalled "the beginnings of Commonwealth Avenue, and the other streets of the Back Bay, laid out with their basements left hollowed in the made land, which the gravel trains were yet making out of the westward hills."
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homes—considered one of the best preserved examples of 19th-century urban design in the United States—as well as numerous architecturally significant individual buildings, and cultural institutions such as the
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By 1849, a city report described Back Bay as a "cesspool" covered with "greenish scum," and its waters "bubbling like a cauldron with the noxious gases that are exploding from the corrupting mass below."
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basin. Construction began in 1859, as the demand for luxury housing exceeded the availability in the city at the time, and the area was fully built by around 1900. It is most famous for its rows of
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requirements and other restrictions, written into the lot deeds of the newly filled Back Bay, produced harmonious rows of dignified three- to five-story residential
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dome westward along the Mill Dam (now Beacon Street), which separated Back Bay (left) from the Charles River. The Mill Dam and the Cross Dam (in distance, in modern
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has garnered scant architectural acclaim, the Prudential Center overall was awarded the Urban Land Institute's "Award for Best Mixed Use Property" in 2006.
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was constructed to allow residents to enjoy the view of the new lagoon. The Esplanade has since undergone several changes, including the construction of
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Back Bay Boston: The City as a Work of Art. With Essays by Lewis Mumford & Walter Muir Whitehill (Boston, 1969).
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While the city of Boston does officially recognize various neighborhoods within its confines, it does not assign precise boundaries.
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in 1900. Much of the old mill dam remains buried under present-day Beacon Street. The project was the largest of a number of
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Fields, W.C.: "My Little Chickadee" (1940), in which the Fields character calls himself "one of the Back Bay Twillies."
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Before its transformation into buildable land by a 19th-century filling project, the Back Bay was a bay, west of the
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However, the Kenmore and Fenway land was not all built up immediately, as explained by Bainbridge Bunting in 1967:
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on the electric trolley or in his automobile. This flight from the city left empty much of the area west of
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in the US. Sited across Copley Square from Trinity Church, it was intended to be "a palace for the people."
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According to the 2012–2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, the largest ancestry groups in
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There were at various time three different "Hancock buildings" in the Back Bay, culminating in a
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projects which, beginning in 1820, more than doubled the size of the original Shawmut Peninsula.
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Present-day Back Bay itself was filled by 1882; the project reached existing land at what is now
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style. The style follows the precepts of the British cultural theorist and architectural critic
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The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay considers the neighborhood's bounds to be "
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Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-century Landfill Project
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Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-century Landfill Project
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Bunting, Bainbridge (1967) "Houses of Boston's Back Bay", Harvard University Press,
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is a large picturesque park on Back Bay's south edge that forms part of Boston's
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts
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In 1814, the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation was chartered to construct a
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Mid 19th Century Revival, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian
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here, evidence of which was discovered during subway construction in 1913 (
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in 1910 converted the former Charles estuary into a freshwater basin; the
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Course notes with illustrations by Professor Jeffrey Howe, Boston College
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Prominent cultural and educational institutions in the Back Bay include:
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Interactive Back Bay map featuring architectural details and information
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Business Association championing the economic vitality of Back Bay.
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The firm of Goss and Munson extended railroad lines to quarries in
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has influenced large-project development in Boston, reinforced by
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The first monumental structure in Copley Square was the original
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Literary Friends and Acquaintance: My First Visit to New England
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rules permitting high-rise construction along the axis of the
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Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, and US historic place
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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MIT OpenCourseWare: "Building the Back Bay" (1926 account)
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The Back Bay is traversed by five east–west corridors:
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Back Bay in Boston at night as seen from the South End
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Train, Arthur (1921), "The Kid and the Camel," from
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to regulate exterior changes to Back Bay buildings.
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Index

Back Bay Historic District
Back Bay station
Back Bay (disambiguation)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Charles River
Back Bay, Boston is located in Boston
Back Bay, Boston is located in Massachusetts
Back Bay, Boston is located in the United States
Boston
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Boston
Massachusetts
reclaimed land
Charles River
Victorian
brownstone
Boston Public Library
Boston Architectural College
John Hancock Tower
Newbury
Boylston Streets
Prudential Center
Copley Place
Charles River
Park Square
Columbus Avenue

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