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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Boston, Massachusetts, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 1837-1859 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorMeacham, George V.en_US
dc.date1837-1859en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-11T18:38:42Z
dc.date.available2013-07-11T18:38:42Z
dc.date.issued1837-1859en_US
dc.identifier223802en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 541en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/132429
dc.descriptionView of plantings at the center part of the garden; The Public Garden is a large park located in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts and is adjacent to the Boston Common. The Public Garden was established in 1837 by Boston Brahmin and philanthropist Horace Gray as the first public botanical garden in the United States. The twenty-four acre (97,000 sq m) landscape, which was once a salt marsh, was designed by George V. Meacham. In 1859, an act by the Massachusetts General Court preserved the Public Garden as an open space. Together with the Boston Common, these two parks form the northern terminus of the Emerald Necklace, a long string of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. While the Common is primarily unstructured open space, the Public Garden contains a lake and a large series of formal plantings that are maintained by the city and others and vary from season to season. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 2/8/2008)en_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectlandscapesen_US
dc.subjectGardensen_US
dc.subjectparks (recreation areas)en_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.titleBoston Public Gardenen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Public Garden (Boston)en_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode2A1-MG-PG-A13en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniquegardeningen_US
vra.worktypegardenen_US
vra.worktypepark (recreation area)en_US
dc.contributor.displayGeorge V. Meacham (American landscape architect, active ca. 1837-1850)en_US


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