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Waban Village

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160944_sv.jpg

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1.26 MB

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JPEG

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82d992eaafba8a37643eaddbb602089a

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, street sign, on telephone pole for Waban Avenue, 1988
Work type
Housing development
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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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