Waban Village
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Creator(s)
landscape architect: Ernest W. Bowditch (American, active 1891-1899)
Time period
creation date: development begun, ca.1890
Location
Site: Newton (Massachusetts, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
Picturesque plan for fashionable 300-acre subdivision, including Cochituate aqueduct as a natural feature; designed by early advocate of metropolitan park system.
general view, houses viewed through stand of trees on Waban Avenue, 1988
Work type
Housing development
Type
Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by Lois A. Craig
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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