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  2. Back Bay, Boston - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Steve DiFillippo - Wikipedia

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    Davio's in Boston, Massachusetts. Steve DiFillippo is a restaurateur and owner of the Davio’s restaurant group located in Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Foxborough and the Avila’s restaurant in Boston. [1] He is also the creator of a retail product line of spring rolls under the Davio’s brand. [2]

  4. Fenway (parkway) - Wikipedia

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    As part of the Emerald Necklace park system mainly designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century, the Fenway, along with the Back Bay Fens and Park Drive, connects the Commonwealth Avenue Mall to the Riverway. For its entire length, the parkway travels along the Muddy River and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.

  5. Charles River Esplanade - Wikipedia

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    Photo of Esplanade, rear of Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1900-1920; Historic American Engineering Record. View of pier-cap and pedestal at Pier 13, west side, Boston Embankment and pedestrian stairway in background - Harvard Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 20th century

  6. Shawmut Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    Map of Shawmut Peninsula from 1775 showing tactical positions from the perspective of the British Army Shawmut Peninsula is the promontory of land on which Boston , Massachusetts was built. The peninsula , originally a mere 789 acres (3.19 km 2 ) in area, [ 1 ] more than doubled in size due to land reclamation efforts that were a feature of the ...

  7. Boston Neck - Wikipedia

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    The residents started adding fill along the neck in the late 18th century because the low-lying area was prone to erosion. Beginning in the 1830s, the Charles River tidal flats were filled in with train loads of gravel from the Needham area. This created the present Back Bay section of Boston. The remains of the fortifications at the town gate ...

  8. Back Bay Fens - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Copley Square - Wikipedia

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    Houses of Boston's Back Bay: An Architectural History, 1840-1917. Cambridge: Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-40901-9. Forbes, Esther (1947). The Boston Book. Photographs by Arthur Griffin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 851279970. Kay, Jane Holtz (1999). Lost Boston (Expanded and updated ed.). Boston ...