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Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, [2] built on reclaimed land in the Charles River 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. [3]
Maps were drawn that described a fish weir covering more than 2 acres (8,100 m 2) of the former marshland below Boston's Back Bay – suggesting the existence of one very large fish weir with over 65,000 wooden stakes. The imagined scale of this fish weir led scholars to speculate that it was built at one time by a community of appreciable size.
Back Bay station (also signed as Back Bay · South End) is an intermodal passenger station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located just south of Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay and South End neighborhoods. It serves MBTA Commuter Rail and MBTA subway routes, and also serves as a secondary Amtrak intercity rail station for Boston.
The Back Bay Fens, often simply referred to as "the Fens," is a parkland and urban wild in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.It was established in 1879. [1] Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted to serve as a link in the Emerald Necklace park system, the Fens gives its name to the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood.
The Back Bay and Beacon Hill are also home to national and local politicians, famous authors and top business leaders and professionals. Bay Village is one of the smallest neighborhoods in Boston and mostly contains Greek Revival-style row houses. [10] North and east of downtown are the neighborhoods of East Boston and Charlestown.
City of Boston, Boston Landmarks Commission Charles River Esplanade Study Report; Bostonian Society. Photo of Promenaders strolling along the Charles River Embankment in Back Bay, c. 1912; Library of Congress: Photo of Esplanade, rear of Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1900-1920; Historic American Engineering Record.
The Back Bay Center is an unexecuted building complex in Boston, Massachusetts The project was proposed by real estate developer Roger L. Stevens on a former rail yard of the Boston and Albany Railroad .
The building at 941–955 Boylston Street in the Back Bay district of Boston, Massachusetts was designed by Arthur H. Vinal in 1886, while he was City Architect, as the city's first combined fire and police station.