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Fort Hill

File / Documentation
Name

166007_sv.jpg

Size

1.23 MB

Format

JPEG

Checksum (MD5)

922c5e1c9c1d03ec6e713a72288e0bb3

Creator(s)
landscape architect: park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (American, 1822-1903)
Time period
creation date: first parcel of land subdivided, 1830s, creation date: hilltop fort designed as a park, 1895
Location
Site: Boston (Massachusetts, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
Fashionable development featuring fine views, good air, proximity to city. Situated near the only land route to and from Boston.
general view, apartment buildings on Highland Street at the intersection of Fort Avenue, 1987
Work type
Neighborhood, Housing development
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Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by Shakeel Hossain
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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