Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and the Building of Boston's Golden Age
- ISBN-10
- 1596291613
- ISBN-13
- 9781596291614
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 125
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- History Press (SC)
- Author
- Theodore G. Clarke
Description
Venture back to the Boston of the 1800s, when Back Bay was just a wide expanse of water to the west of the Shawmut Peninsula and merchants peddled their wares to sailors along the docks. Witness the beginning of the American Industrial Revolution; learn how a series of cultural movements made Boston the focal point of abolitionism in America, with leaders like William Lloyd Garrison; and see the golden age of the arts ushered in with notables Longfellow, Holmes, Copley, Sargent and Isabella Stewart Gardner. Travel with local historian Ted Clarke down the cobbled streets of Boston to discover its history in the golden age.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2014-11-04
- 253 pages
- Ebook
- Arcadia Publishing
Similar books
-
Boston's Back Bay
By Anthony Mitchell SammarcoFrom the right are the Museum of Natural History and the Rogers and Walker Buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . William Barton Rogers ( 1804–1882 ) was the founder and first president of the Massachusetts Institute ...
-
Beacon Hill: The Life & Times of a Neighborhood
By Moying Li-MarcusSince Boston's legendary Beacon Hill was first settled nearly 400 years ago, the neighborhood's spirited residents, generation after generation, have created and maintained a unique environment that is both timeless...
-
The Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis
By Edwin Monroe BaconThe Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis
-
Historic Boston and its Neighbourhood
By Edward Everett HaleEdward Everett Hale. HISTORIC BOSTON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD EDWARD EVERETT HALE Historic Boston and its Neighbourhood A HistoricalPilgrimage EDWARD EVERETT HALE. Front Cover.
-
Legendary Locals of Beacon Hill
By Karen Cord Taylor... 113 Burnes, Nonnie and Ricky, 80 Byrd, Adm. Richard E., 66, 67 Camargo, Ania, 98 Channing, William Ellery, 31, ... 9, 15 Harding, Chester, 33 Harvey, Esther, 44 Hayden, Harriet, 44 Hayden, Lewis, 44, 45 Haley, Michael, 83 Hatch, ...
-
Boston: A Century of Progress
By Anthony Mitchell Sammarco" Boston: A Century of Progress brings to life one hundred amazing years, from 1822 to 1922.
-
Boston's West End
By Anthony Mitchell Sammarco( Courtesy of the West End Historical Society . ) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank the following for their assistance in researching this book on Boston's West End . In many instances , the following individuals have been of great ...
-
Lost Boston
By Jane Holtz KayThe flock of Bishop Fitzpatrick like the flock of John Winthrop had a monument on this landscape , but it was a sorry sight . Standing high above them , the ruins of the Ursuline Convent on Charlestown's Mount Benedict were a symbol of ...
-
Boston: A Pictorial Celebration
By Jonathan BeagleBeacon Hill No section of the city better reflects the value of Proper Boston than Beacon Hill. As the address of the Massachusetts State House, its name has become synonymous with wealth and power, but it originally referred to a ...
-
Restaurant Republic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston
By Kelly ErbyMatthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Cambridge, Mass. ... Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture (Philadelphia:Temple University Press, 1992); Abigail ...