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Fort Hill

File / Documentation
Name

166006_sv.jpg

Size

1.44 MB

Format

JPEG

Checksum (MD5)

28dfd88dd087b9d5c3a5e0ee82cc1871

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, Victorian house on Highland Street at the intersection of Beech Glen Street, 1987
Work type
Neighborhood, Housing development
Keywords
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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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