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Norman B. Leventhal (August 30, 1917 – April 5, 2015) was an American businessman, the chairman of The Beacon Companies, a developer and manager of office buildings, housing, and hotels. Leventhal was best known for his work in civic improvements to the city of Boston, and consequently had a park named after him of which he oversaw the creation.
The center manages the geographic collections of the Boston Public Library as well as material collected by Norman B. Leventhal during his lifetime, known as the Mapping Boston Collection. Its holdings stretch chronologically from the 15th century to the present, and geographically cover the world, with a focus on Boston and New England.
Download QR code; In other projects ... Norman B. Leventhal Map Center: ... Boston Public Library : Location: Boston. Coordinates: 42° 20′ 57.48″ N, 71° 04 ...
Numbering plan areas and area codes since May 2001 September 1997 [1] – May 2001 [2] July 1988 [3] – September 1997 [4] [5] October 1947 – July 1988 [6]. Massachusetts is divided into five distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs), which are served by nine area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), [7] organized as four overlay complexes and a single-area code NPA.
Plans and construction documents for the artwork are based on research of historic maps from the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center collection, [5] and writings of historian Nancy Seasholes. [6] The entire shoreline surrounding the original land mass of Boston has been repeatedly filled in and modified, starting in the early 17th century, through a ...
Detail of 1883 map of Boston, showing Post Office Square and vicinity Post Office Square, Boston, 1876 Garage in Post Office Square that was demolished to make way for the creation of Norman B. Leventhal Park. In the 18th century, rope manufacturers occupied the area, then it became a residential district, and later a business and commercial area.
Area code 209 was created in an area code split of area code 415 on October 26, 1957. On November 14, 1998, the southern half of this numbering plan area received the assignment of area code 559. On October 24, 2021, 209 was transitioned to 1+10-digit dialing despite not being part of an overlay complex at that time.
Leventhal and his wife, Sherry, are philanthropists, [13] who operate the Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Foundation. [14] They made a $5 million donation to Boston University. [3] Moreover, his family has given $10 million to the Boston Public Library for the creation of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. [15]