Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking ToursUPNE, 2004 - 284 páginas This lavishly illustrated guidebook to the many distinctive attractions of Boston's Victorian heritage provides the walker and the armchair traveler alike with delightful and enlightening discoveries of the city's remarkable treasure trove of nineteenth-century landmarks and luminaries. Designed and written by a diverse group of specialists in history, architecture, literature, and culture, the narrators of these twelve unique tours offer rich historical detail and engaging anecdotes about this vibrant period in Boston's past. Victorian Boston Today, edited by Mary Melvin Petronella for the New England Chapter of the Victorian Society of America, includes a beautifully drawn map for each tour, and contains such features as expanded descriptive captions for the profuse vintage illustrations, telephone numbers and web addresses for sites open to the public, directions between tour sites, information about public transportation, and a wealth of other practical enhancements and tips. From the South End's signature residential squares, to the Black Heritage Trail[registered], to Jamaica Plain's pastoral landscape, these walking tours vividly recapture the spirit of Victorian Boston. The |
Índice
Acknowledgments | ix |
The New England Chapter of the Victorian Society in America VSANE | xv |
Foreword by Edward W Gordon | xxv |
Walking and Using Transportation in Todays Boston | xxxix |
TOURS THAT BEGIN IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON | 1 |
MidNineteenthCentury Urban Planning | 17 |
Ethnic Diversity in the Victorian North End by Will Holton | 33 |
With a Prior Look at Bostons | 49 |
Black Heritage Trail by Sue Bailey Thurman J Marcus and Gaunzetta | 130 |
Walking with Women in Victorian Boston by Patricia C Morris | 143 |
FROM DOWNTOWN BOSTON TAKE | 167 |
Victorian Bostons Chocolate Village by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco | 189 |
Cambridges Brattle Street | 215 |
Notes | 233 |
About the Contributors | 258 |
Thinkers in the Center of the Planet | 83 |
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