<p>Fountains Fell is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England. The main summit has a height of 668 m and a relative height or topographic prominence of 243 m and thus qualifies as a Marilyn. Its subsidiary south top reaches 662 m and qualifies as a Nuttall. A third summit, further south at, reaches 610 m and is the most southerly 2,000 ft summit in the Pennines.</p><br>
<p>The eastern slopes of the fell form part of the National Trust&#39;s Malham Tarn and Moor estate.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The name Fountains derives from ownership of the land in the 13th century by the Cistercian monks of Fountains Abbey (25 mi to the east, near Ripon), who used it for sheep grazing.</p><br>
<h2>Pennine Way</h2><br>
<p>The Pennine Way crosses Fountains Fell about a third of a mile north of the summit. For the northbound walker this is 85 mi from the start of the way at Edale, and is the first point where the way climbs higher than Kinder Scout&#39;s 636 m which was reached soon after the start. It is 8 mi along the Pennine Way from Malham village to the summit of Fountains Fell, the route climbing up beside the dramatic cliffs of Malham Cove and passing Malham Tarn before climbing up the east side of the fell. The route continues down the western slopes of the fell and ascends the southern ridge of Pen-y-ghent, reached after 3.5 mi: this summit of 694 m then supplants Fountains Fell as the highest point yet reached on the Pennine Way.</p><br>
<h2>Caving</h2><br>
<p>There are several caves of interest to cavers on Fountains Fell, including Antler Hole, Dalehead Pot, Echo Hole, Fornagh Gill, Gingling Pot, Hammer Pot and Magnetometer Pot.</p><br>
<p>The Edward H. Haskell Home for Nurses, also known as the New England Baptist Hospital Training School For Nurses, is an historic academic complex at 220 Fisher Avenue, 63 Parker Hill Avenue in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Its original building, a 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 story brick-faced wood-frame building, was designed by Edward Sears Read in the Jacobethan style and built in 1922. This building originally housed a dormitory and classrooms. In 1931 a large wing gave the building an L shape, and another series of additions in 1940 gave the complex its present appearance, surrounding a courtyard atop Parker Hill. The complex was converted into an assisted-living facility in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Hayden Building is a historic building at 681-683 Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1875 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as well as designated a Boston Landmark in 1978. Designed to act as commercial retail space, this four story brownstone building shows little of the ornamentation generally associated with Henry Hobson Richardson. It is the last surviving commercial retail building designed by Richardson in Boston. The building is in Boston&#39;s Chinatown neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The five story Richardsonian Romanesque building was built on a very narrow lot. It is constructed of Longmeadow brownstone and is sparsely detailed with granite lintels and arches.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>This building was not recorded as a Henry Hobson Richardson building until work done architectural and landscape historian, Cynthia Zaitzevsky made note of it in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Previous summaries of Richardson&#39;s works relied on office books. This building was built by the Richardson family and was not charged an architectural or design fee. This building replaced a drugstore that exploded on this site in 1875.</p><br>
<p>All other commercial buildings designed by Richardson in Boston have been demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Historic Boston Incorporated acquired the building in 1995 and completed a total exterior restoration to repair fire damage. Work was done by the architectural firm Bruner/Cott and Preservation Carpentry students at the North Bennet Street School. Damaged structural stonework was replaced using latex molded cast stone replicas from other parts of the building. Brownstone lintels and columns were replaced where necessary.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, Boston architectural firm CUBE design + research was commissioned to complete a comprehensive restoration and conversion into multi-family housing.</p><br>
<p>The Home for Aged Couples is a group of three historic buildings at 409 and 419 Walnut Ave. and 2055 Columbus Avenue in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The building at 409 Walnut Avenue has been boarded up and is partially demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Classical Revival buildings were designed by John A. Fox and Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott and constructed between 1892 and 1927. Around the time of the construction of the Badger Building in 1927, brick connectors were constructed between all three buildings; these have since been demolished. The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Since 1999 Rogerson Communities (founded in 1860 as the Home for Aged Men) has taken the lead in fundraising to redevelop the property.</p><br>
<p>The House at 17 Cranston Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is an architecturally eclectic and distinctive 12-sided structure, with an unusual combination of Italianate and Gothic features. It was built about 1874 by two Scottish immigrants, and is a distinctive landmark overlooking Hyde Square. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>17 Cranston Street stands on top of a low ridge southeast of the Hyde Square junction of Centre and Perkins Streets in Jamaica Plain. Its main structure consists of three four-sided bays resembling truncated hexagons, which have been joined together in a Y shape around a central hexagon. Windows consist of paired casements, each set at one of the angled corners with a triangular colored transom, giving the pair the appearance of a peaked transom. Each window pair is framed by shouldered Italianate moulding. The windows are arranged so there is only one pair per corner, either on the first or second floor. In two places on the ground floor there are doors placed at a corner, which fold as well as open. Each of these has been covered by a later added vestibule, whose exterior continues the main body styling but houses a more standard door. The exterior is finished in overlapping wooden panels that are in a hexagonal pattern. A six-sided cupola rises at the center of the roof, its exterior finished in multicolored slate. The interior decoration continues the hexagonal themes of the exterior.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the house stands was purchased by James and Archibald Scott from developer Timothy Bowe in 1871. The Scotts lost the property by foreclosure in 1874. The house was probably built by the Scotts: Archibald, a native of Nova Scotia, was a carpenter, specialized in the organ building trade, while Bowe was a mason, none of whose nearby houses come close to this one in architectural interest. According to a 1908 article on the house, the Scott brothers camped in a tent on the property while building the house.</p><br>
<p>After the Scotts lost the property, it went through a number of absentee owners. In the 20th century, the vestibules were added, and the house was sheathed in asphalt siding, which was placed over the hexagonal tiles. Subsequent owners have removed the siding, exposing the original, which was judged in 1987 to be in good condition.</p><br>
<p>The Sagami River is a river in Kanagawa and Yamanashi Prefectures on the island of Honshū, Japan.</p><br>
<p>The upper reaches of the river in Yamanashi prefecture are also sometimes known as the Katsura River, and the portion near the river mouth as the Banyu River. The river overall was sometimes referred to as the Ayu River from the sweetfish (ayu) which were once abundant in its waters.</p><br>
<p>The Sagami River drains Lake Yamanaka, the largest and easternmost of the Fuji Five Lakes in Yamanashi Prefecture. It loops northwest, then northeast through Yamanashi, before following a generally southerly course to exit into Sagami Bay of the Pacific Ocean between the cities of Hiratsuka and Chigasaki. It is dammed at several locations along the way, forming a number of reservoir lakes, the largest of which are Lake Sagami and Lake Tsukui.</p><br>
<p>The river has had to re-cut its course several times due to repeated eruptions of Mount Fuji, and river terraces are in evidence along its upper reaches in Yamanashi. As the river crosses Kanagawa, it forms natural levees in the soft soils of the alluvial plains of central Kanagawa, and forms almost no river delta as it exits into the ocean.</p><br>
<p>The potential of the upper reaches of the Sagami River for hydroelectric power development began to be developed in the 1930s, with the growth of industry and electrical consumption in the Yokohama-Kanagawa industrial belt, and the growing need for a reliable supply of drinking and industrial water. Work on the Sagami Dam began in 1938; however, lack of funding and the advent of World War II delayed completion until after the end of the war. In the post war period, the Shiroyama Dam was also completed on the main stream of the Sagami River in 1965. A number of dams have also been completed on the Nakatsu River, the main tributary of the Sagami River, including the Miyagase Dam.</p><br>
<p>The Omaha Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant is located at 1514-1524 Cuming Street in North Omaha, Nebraska. In its 16 years of operation, the plant employed 1,200 people and built approximately 450,000 cars and trucks. In the 1920s, it was Omaha&#39;s second-biggest shipper.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Ford plant</h3><br>
<p>The plant was designed by Albert Kahn as a Model T assembly plant, and built in 1916. Its design represents an important step in the development of Fords assembly process. Previously, each step in the assembly of an automobile had taken place in a different building, which entailed a cost in time and labor to move the product from one building to another. From 1903 to 1916, Kahn designed "all-under-one-roof" buildings for a variety of manufacturers. In such buildings, Fords usual practice was to begin assembly on the top floor and move downward until the product was finished at ground level. The Omaha plant was an exception to this: assembly began on the lowest floor and moved upward. It is speculated that the roof was used for storage of finished automobiles.</p><br>
<p>In 1917, Kahn designed the first single-floor assembly plant with a continuous moving assembly line at Ford&#39;s Rouge River plant. This design supplanted the older one; the Model A, which replaced the Model T, used a continuous line that could not be installed in the Omaha plant. Assembly ceased at the Omaha plant in 1932. Ford continued to use the building as a sales and service center until 1955.</p><br>
<h3>Post-Ford</h3><br>
<p>After Ford&#39;s departure, the building was used as a warehouse by the Western Electric Company from 1956 to 1959. It was then vacant until 1963, when it was occupied by Tip Top Products, an Omaha manufacturer of liquid solder, hair accessories, and other plastic goods founded by Carl W. Renstrom. Tip Top left the building in 1986, after which it was again vacant for several years. It served as a tire warehouse and retail outlet for some time, but then fell vacant again.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, the building was opened as TipTop Apartments, a mixed-use building with office space on the first floor and with 96 loft-style apartments on the upper levels; an adjoining building houses a banquet-and-conference center.</p><br>
<p>John Eliot Square District is a historic district located in the northern Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is formed by the intersection of Dudley, Bartlett, Centre, Roxbury and Highland Streets. Named after local missionary to the Indians, John Eliot, the square was the site of the Roxbury town center after its founding in 1630. Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868, and John Eliot Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The square is the nucleus of Roxbury Heritage State Park, a history-themed heritage park.</p><br>
<h2>Major landmarks</h2><br>
<h3>First Church of Roxbury</h3><br>
<p>John Eliot Squares central landmark is the First Church of Roxbury, Bostons oldest surviving wooden meeting house from the Federal Period of American architecture.</p><br>
<h3>Dillaway-Thomas House</h3><br>
<p>Roxbury Heritage State Park is anchored by the Dillaway–Thomas House, a large colonial structure built in 1750 and thought to be Roxbury&#39;s oldest surviving house. The location includes an adjacent 1 acre landscaped park with views of the Boston skyline, and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.</p><br>
<p>The Georgian-style home was built as a parsonage for Rev. Oliver Peabody, pastor of the First Church of Roxbury in 1750. The house was later owned by Martha Dillaway and then John Thomas, an American commander in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. A marker commemorating the neighborhood as a stop on the Knox trail and signifying Thomas&#39; role in ending the Siege of Boston was placed at the park in 2009. The marker was the 57th placed to commemorate the Knox Expedition, and the first added since the string of monuments marking the trail was established in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The house was first restored in the 1930s by a preservationist who also introduced some inaccurate fixtures in an effort to embellish its history. After two fires in the 1970s, a state representative who was a former Roxbury resident successfully petitioned the legislature in 1984 for funding to restore the house and preserve it as a heritage park. The following restoration was done leaving some spots showing levels of all previous work done to the house left exposed, creating a physical timeline of the architectural history of the house. The completed house was opened to the public in 1992, and contains exhibits tracing periods of the history of Roxbury from the past to the present.</p><br>
<p>The Liberty Tree District is a historic district encompassing a collection of six mid-scale commercial buildings between the Downtown Crossing area and the Theater District of Boston, Massachusetts. They are clustered around the corner of Washington and Essex Streets, on the edge of the area known in the 20th century has Boston&#39;s Combat Zone, or adult entertainment district. The area is historically significant as the site in the 1760s of the Liberty Tree and the Liberty Tree Tavern, a focal point of colonial discontent against British rule. This significance is reflected in a carved relief on the Liberty Tree Block, a brick commercial block built in 1850 at the corner of Washington and Essex. The building was designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The district features Greek Revival, Late Victorian, and Italianate architecture. The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Lower Roxbury Historic District is a historic district encompassing an isolated pocket of 1890s mixed residential-commercial property in the lower Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Bounded by Tremont, Columbus, and Burke Streets and St. Cyprian&#39;s Place, the area contains a well-kept collection of architect designed buildings that survived late 20th-century urban redevelopment. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The district is bounded on the north by Columbus Avenue and on the south by Tremont Street, and is about 3 acre in size. Its western extent is the west side of St. Cyprian&#39;s Place (aka Walpole Street), and its eastern extent is roughly Burke Street. All of the buildings east of Coventry Street that were originally included in the district have since been demolished, and the entire block between Coventry and Burke has been redeveloped. Buildings fronting the east side of Coventry Street have also been demolished.</p><br>
<p>Boston&#39;s Roxbury neighborhood was originally a separate community, separated from Boston by the narrow Boston Neck. In the 19th century, a number of land reclamation projects widened the neck and filled in the Back Bay, creating new land for development. Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868. The Lower Roxbury area was located south of the Boston and Providence Railroad tracks, and had pockets of marshy land whose development was delayed into the late 19th century. This historic district was built up in one of these areas, between the railroad tracks and Tremont Street, one of the roads extended along the widened neck. By the 1890s, the area between Ruggles Street and Massachusetts Avenue was lined with predominantly wood frame structures and one factory. This area was on the fringes of the urban center, where fire codes required brick construction. When the area was redeveloped in the 1890s, a series of architect-designed buildings were constructed.</p><br>
<p>The oldest buildings in the district date to the 1850s, but most were built in the 1890s. One notable later building is St. Cyprian&#39;s Church (1915–38), which is the only religious building in the district, and its only Gothic Revival structure. Most buildings have Classical Revival inspiration in their detailing, are between three and four stories in height, and many have pressed metal cornices and metal trim detailing. The only entirely commercial building in the district at the time of its listing, 1065-69 Tremont Street, has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Mariner&#39;s House is a historic hotel at 11 North Square in Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1847 by the Boston Port Society and operated as a boarding house for sailors by the Boston Seamans Aid Society and the Port Societys chaplain, Father Taylor. Today it maintains the role of an inexpensive hotel for merchant mariners on active duty. It offers short term accommodations (maximum stay 13 days) starting at $65 including breakfast to guests who can prove that they are actively working in the merchant marine.</p><br>
<p>The building was described in the 1850s:</p><br>
<p>"This is a noble edifice of 4 stories, erected by the Boston Port Society, and leased to the Seamans Aid Society: it contains 40 rooms over the basement story: the building is 40 feet square, with a wing extending 70 feet of three stories; in the basement is a storage room for seamens luggage, kitchen; laundry and bathing room: in the wing, is a spacious dining hall for seating an hundred persons: it has a chapel for morning and evening services arid where social, religious meetings are held every Wednesday evening under the care of Rev. E. T. Taylor: a reading and news room, with a good library to which accessions are daily making; and a store for the sale of sailors clothing: the building and land cost about $38,000, and it has been furnished at a cost of about $21,000, by the generous contributions of the Unitarian Churches of Boston and vicinity; a good supply of water is on the estate, and two force pumps supply each of the stories with hot or cold water, as required."</p><br>
<p>The hotel was built in the Greek Revival style and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts Mental Health Center is a historic psychiatric hospital complex at 75 Fenwood Road in the Longwood medical area of Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The center was founded in 1912 as the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. Its original main building and power plant were built that year, with additions in later decades including a therapeutic wing (1954) and research building (1957). The entire property was surrounded by an iron picket fence. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, representing one of the nations oldest psychiatric hospitals. In 2009 the centers historic campus at 74 Fenwood Road was acquired by Partners HealthCare and demolished the following year. The center continues to operate in modern facilities at 75 Fenwood Road.</p><br>
<p>The Donald McKay House is a privately owned historic house at 78–80 White Street in East Boston, Massachusetts. It was the residence of Donald McKay, a builder of clipper ships.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1844 in the Greek Revival architectural style, which is distinguished by its pitched roof and front-facing gable resembling a Greek pediment. Donald McKay (1810 – 1880) moved into the house in 1845, and during his residence there he designed and built some of the most successful clippers in history. These ships include the Flying Cloud (1851), which made two 89-day passages from New York to San Francisco; the Sovereign of the Seas (1852), which posted the fastest speed ever by a sailing ship (22 knots) in 1854; the Lightning (1854), which set multiple records, including sailing 436 miles in a 24-hour period and sailing from Melbourne, Australia, to Liverpool, England, in 64 days; and the James Baines (1854), which logged a speed of 21 knots on June 18, 1856.</p><br>
<p>While living in East Boston, McKay also built five large packet ships for Enoch Train&#39;s White Diamond Line, which specialized in the Atlantic emigrant route from Europe to North America, between 1845–1850. These ships were the Washington Irving, the Anglo Saxon, the Anglo American, the Daniel Webster, and the Ocean Monarch. The Ocean Monarch was lost to fire on August 28, 1848, soon after leaving Liverpool and within sight of Wales; over 170 of the passengers and crew perished. During the American Civil War, the USA Navy contracted McKay to build the USS Nausett, one of the few Casco-class monitors to be commissioned.</p><br>
<p>On January 25, 1977, a public hearing was held at Boston City Hall to consider designation. The house was designated as a Boston Landmark in May 10, 1977, it was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Monument Square Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of Monument Square in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The 43 acre district is bounded on the northwest by the Jamaicaway, the northeast by Myrtle and Pond Streets, the southeast by Centre Street , and Holbrook and Eliot Streets to the west. This area, originally developed as country estates, was developed as a residential area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its architecture reflecting a diversity of styles. Prominent non-residential buildings including the First Church of Jamaica Plain, Eliot Hall, and the Eliot School. Also included in the district is Jamaica Plains Gothic Soldiers Monument, at the junction of South and Centre Streets.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 11, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Moreland Street Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Kearsarge, Blue Hill Avenues, and Warren, Waverly, and Winthrop Streets in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It encompasses 63 acre of predominantly residential urban streetscape, which was developed between about 1840 and 1920. Housing types represent a cross-section of architectural styles from the period, including Second Empire, Italianate, and Queen Anne style. It is a fairly well-preserved grouping in an area where many sections have been negatively affected by urban blight and redevelopment. One notable house is at 130 Warren Street: it is the only house in the district built out of Roxbury puddingstone.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Old Post Office, also known as USA Post Office, is a historic post office building located at 121 Ellicott Street in Buffalo in Erie County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Formerly the tallest building in the city of Buffalo from 1901 to 1912. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the old USA Post Office Department during the tenure of Jeremiah ORourke when construction started in 1897. The $1,500,000 building opened in 1901 during the tenure of James Knox Taylor and operated as Buffalos central post office until 1963. The highly ornamented Gothic Revival style four story building features a 244-foot tower over the central entrance. The main feature of the interior is a roofed courtyard. It was subsequently occupied by various federal offices. Since 1981, it has been home to the city campus of the Erie Community College.</p><br>
<p>Its tower is 244 ft tall.</p><br>
<h3>National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places maintained by the National Park Service of the USA Department of the Interior in 1972 as "USA Post Office".</p><br>
<p>Mount Pleasant Historic District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of well-preserved 19th-century residential buildings on Forest Street and Mount Pleasant Avenue in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. First developed in 1833, it was one Roxbury&#39;s first speculative residential subdivision developments. The district features Greek Revival, Italianate, and Romanesque architecture, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mount Pleasant Historic District covers about 170 acre in central Roxbury, and includes all of the properties on Mount Pleasant Avenue and Forest Street south of Dudley Street, as well as the properties on Vine Street between the two. The area is entirely residential, including a diversity of housing types and styles. It has structures containing one, two, and three units, as well as larger apartment houses and rowhouses. The only institutional building in the district, the Mount Carmel Convent, is also residential. Most of the smaller buildings are wood frame structures, while the larger buildings are generally built out of brick. Stylistically, the oldest buildings are Greek Revival in character, with styles extending the full gamut of popular styles of the second half of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Roxbury was founded as a separate town in 1630, and was annexed to Boston in 1868. Until the 19th century, it was a predominantly agricultural area. In 1833, Caleb Parker, Jr. purchased the farm of Moses White, and laid out the streets of the district and the surrounding area. Land that he sold to builders came with deed restrictions limiting it to residential construction. Public transit from the area to Boston was at first limited to horse-drawn omnibuses, but the train was built through Roxbury in 1835, reducing commute times. Prior to the American Civil War, most of the construction in the district was wood-frame, albeit with increasing density. Construction after the war was mainly in brick, and at even higher densities, although a few triple deckers were built around the turn of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Neponset Valley Parkway is a historic parkway in southern Boston and Milton, Massachusetts, United States. It is a connecting parkway in the Greater Boston area&#39;s network, providing a connection between the Blue Hills Reservation, Neponset River Reservation, and the Stony Brook Reservation. The parkway was constructed between 1898 and 1929 with design assistance from Charles Eliot and the Olmsted Brothers. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The northern terminus of the parkway is at a junction with River Street, north of the Readville neighborhood of Boston and just south of the Mill Pond Reservation, a city park. On the far side of the Mill Pond Reservation is the southern end of Turtle Brook Parkway, one of the Stony Brook Reservation Parkways. It runs roughly east, as a two-lane road, until it meets a major railroad right-of-way, at which point it turns south. It makes a left turn to cross the railroad with Milton Street on the John Hart Bridge (a 1930s WPA construction), just north of the Readville MBTA station. It turns south, passing the station and then curves east again, crossing another branch of the railroad to enter Wolcott Square, a commercial area of Readville. From Wolcott Square it proceeds roughly southeast in a straight line, through a residential area, and widens to four lanes shortly before reaching the edge of the Neponset River Reservation and a junction with the southern terminus of the Truman Parkway. It then crosses the Neponset River into Milton on Paul&#39;s Bridge, an 1849 stone arch bridge which was rebuilt to widen it as part of the parkway construction. On the east side of the river it meets Milton Street and Brush Hill Road, briefly turning southwest before resuming its southeasterly course to its southern terminus at Blue Hill Avenue (Massachusetts Route 138).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parkway was built in three stages, and was one of the Metropolitan District Commissions (MDC) early connecting parkways. The segment between Wolcott Square and Brush Hill Road was acquired first, as an existing municipal street formerly called Neponset Street. This section was acquired by the MDCs predecessor in 1898 and upgraded to its parkway standards; Paul&#39;s Bridge was rebuilt in 1932-33. The section north of this was originally planned to be a new roadway (and land was even acquired in 1901), but the MDC decided in 1924 to instead acquire the present alignment, which was then called Regent Street. The John Hart Bridge was acquired by the MDC in 1956, replacing an earlier grade crossing. The southern segment of the parkway was built as a new roadway in 1904.</p><br>
<p>The Paine Furniture Building is an historic commercial building at 75-81 Arlington Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It occupies the entire block between St. James and Stuart Streets, and has a prominent position on Park Square.</p><br>
<p>The ten-story building was constructed in 1914 in a Classical Revival style, to a design by Densmore and LeClear. It was designed to house the showrooms, offices, and manufacturing facilities of the Paine Furniture Company, at one time the largest furniture company in New England. The company sold the building in 1989. It has steel frame construction, and is faced in limestone.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It is currently a pending Boston Landmark. Suffolk University&#39;s New England School of Art and Design currently occupies part of the building.</p><br>
<p>Pauls Bridge is a stone bridge carrying the Neponset Valley Parkway over the Neponset River between Milton and southern Boston, Massachusetts. It was built in 1849 by Thomas Hollis, Jr., of Milton, but was later reconstructed using the original materials. It replaced the earlier Hubbards Bridge , and a subsequent Pauls Bridge . Its current span is approximately 88 ft. The name "Paul" can be attributed to Samuel Paul, the owner of the adjacent land on the Readville  side, which was part of Dedham at the time of the bridges construction.</p><br>
<p>The 1849 bridge was 81 ft long and 22 ft wide, and was constructed of unmortared Quincy granite.</p><br>
<p>Paul&#39;s Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and contributes to a historic district encompassing the Neponset River Parkway. It is located within the Neponset River Reservation, and is maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.</p><br>
<p>The Richardson Block is an historic block of commercial buildings at 113-151 Pearl and 109-119 High Streets in Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of a series of buildings constructed in the aftermath of the Great Boston Fire of 1872. The first of these buildings, at the corner of Pearl and High Streets, was designed by William Preston and built in 1873 for Jeffrey Richardson, using granite and brick salvaged from buildings that had previously stood on the site. The area was an important locus of the leather goods business both before and after the fire, and the buildings constructed after the fire are among the only neo-Greek commercial structures standing in Boston&#39;s Financial District.</p><br>
<p>The properties were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. They are currently under consideration for Boston Landmark status by the Boston Landmarks Commission.</p><br>
<p>Roughan Hall is a historic commercial building at 10 City Square, the historic central square of the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1892 and enlarged in 1896, it is the square&#39;s only surviving 19th-century commercial building, and a distinctive example of Romanesque and Renaissance Revival architecture. Its upper levels now serve as the headquarters of the Appalachian Mountain Club. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>City Square is a public park at the southern end of the Charlestown peninsula, lined on the southwest and southeast by major traffic arteries. Roughan Hall is located on the park&#39;s northeast side, between Main and Park Streets. It is a four-story yellow brick building, with cast-iron storefronts on the ground level, and a limestone-framed entry to the upper floors, which historically housed offices and a large auditorium. The main facade is four bays wide, with the leftmost bay set at a slight angle, owing in part to an odd lot shape. The second and third floor windows of three of the bays are surrounded by decorative brickwork, and the fourth-floor windows are tall rounded arches with terra cotta surrounds. The building cornice includes a series of blind arches surmounted by brick corbelling.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Arthur H. Vinal and built in 1892 for Michael Roughan, a prominent local businessman and philanthropist. At the time, the square was completely encircled by commercial and civic buildings. The building housed Roughans liquor store on the ground floor, and the top-floor hall was used primarily by social and fraternal organizations. In 1989, the ground floor space was converted for use as a restaurant and housed Todd Englishs Olives from 1989 to 2013, which was replaced by Legal Oysteria in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The building was purchased by the Appalachian Mountain Club in 2016, which occupies its upper floors.</p><br>
<p>Roxbury High Fort is a historic fort site on Beech Glen Street at Fort Avenue in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The site now contains a small park and the Cochituate Standpipe, also known as Fort Hill Tower, built in 1869. The fort site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The site inspired the name of the Fort Hill neighborhood which surrounds the area of the High Fort.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Roxbury High Fort site once contained earthwork fortifications of the Continental Army during the Siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary War. At that time Roxbury was an independent town connected to Boston by a narrow neck of land. The hill offered a great vantage of the entire area.</p><br>
<p>In 1868 Roxbury was annexed to Boston. In 1869, the 70-ft tall Cochituate Standpipe was built atop Fort Hill by the Cochichuate Water Company.</p><br>
<p>Eventually the water tower was abandoned with other expansions to the Boston water system. By the 1960s, the tower fell into disrepair. The original cast iron balcony was removed. In the early 1980s the City of Boston restored the tower. The area is also today known as Highland Park.</p><br>
<p>The Russia Wharf Buildings are a cluster of three stylistically similar commercial buildings at 518-540 Atlantic Avenue, 270 Congress Street and 276-290 Congress Street in Boston, Massachusetts. They are built on the original site of Russia Wharf, near where the Boston Tea Party took place in 1773. The wharf was the center of Bostons trade with Russia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The wharfs buildings were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872, and the land area was extended by building over the wharf and filling the spaces surrounding it. The three Renaissance Revival buildings were designed by Peabody and Stearns and built in 1897.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Sears Crescent and Sears Block are a pair of adjacent historic buildings at 38–68 and 70–72 Cornhill in Boston, Massachusetts. It is adjacent to City Hall and City Hall Plaza, Government Center, Boston.</p><br>
<p>Sears Crescent was constructed in 1816 as a series of Federal period commercial rowhouses. Around 1860 these were given a unified curving facade with Italianate styling. The Sears Block, built in 1848, is a rare surviving instance of granite post-and-lintel construction. Both buildings were developed by David Sears, a leading mid-19th-century developer of Boston who was responsible for the filling of Back Bay. They are the only buildings that remain on the original route of Cornhill, one of Boston&#39;s oldest streets, most of whose route has been lost or obscured by urban renewal.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Sears&#39; Block is now the location of the "Steaming Tea Kettle", an 1873 trade sign commissioned by the Oriental Tea Company that was located on a Court Street building demolished in 1967 during the construction of Government Center. The kettle was refurbished and reinstalled in 2016 after being damaged, apparently by a truck.</p><br>
<p>Sears&#39; Crescent was acquired in 2016 by Chevron Partners.</p><br>
<p>The South End District is a historic district encompassing a portion of the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is bounded roughly by the Southwest Corridor Park on the northwest, the Massachusetts Turnpike to the north, Herald Street to the east, AlbanyStreet to the south east, and Massachusetts Avenue to the southwest. The area&#39;s principal development took place 1850-73, and resulted in a neighborhood of what were originally single-family brick or brownstone rowhouses, interspersed with retail and civic buildings, as well as six small parks. After the Panic of 1873 these properties were for the most part converted to multi-unit housing.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In 2014 it was expanded to include additional properties on the 200 block of Harrison Street.</p><br>
<p>The R. H. Stearns Building is an 11-story residence building  at 140 Tremont Street in Boston. It was built in 1909 for the businessman R. H. Stearns and his company and was the home of the R. H. Stearns and Company department store until its demise in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Stearns store had been in many locations in Boston before finally settling in its new building and headquarters at 140 Tremont Street.</p><br>
<p>Since 1886 Stearns & Co. occupied and leased a re-modeled building on the site of the old Boston Masonic Temple, until it was completely torn down and the new R. H. Stearns building put up in 1908.</p><br>
<p>R. H. Stearns & Company ceased operations in 1978, and the building was converted to 140 studio and one-bedroom apartments for older adults and people with disabilities. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as R. H. Stearns House in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Stony Brook Reservation Parkways are a group of historic parkways in Boston and Dedham, Massachusetts. They provide access to and within the Stony Brook Reservation, a Massachusetts state park. The roadways and the park are administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, a successor to the Metropolitan District Commission, which oversaw their construction. The roads consist of the Dedham, Enneking, and Turtle Pond Parkways and West Boundary Road. Two roads within the park, Smithfield Road and Reservation Road, are listed as non-contributing properties. The park roads were built between 1894 and 1956, and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>West Boundary Road</h2><br>
<p>When it was built in 1928, West Boundary Road skirted the western boundary of the reservation, running from Washington Street in the north to Turtle Pond Parkway in the south. This route is now interrupted by a housing development, and the southern end of the roadway ends after 0.8 mi at Georgetowne Drive. Most of the rest of its former alignment has been converted to a wide hiking path.</p><br>
<h2>Dedham Parkway</h2><br>
<p>The reservation&#39;s three main parkways meet at a junction within the park known as the Robert Bleakie Intersection, located in the southern part of the park. The Dedham Parkway, a two-lane road, extends southwest from this junction, exiting the park soon afterward. It passes a junction with Georgetowne Drive, and then with Alwin Street, before crossing into Dedham and reaching its southern terminus, a junction with Harding Terrace (the cross street), and Dedham Boulevard (its southerly continuation). The parkway was built in stages, in 1900 and 1912.</p><br>
<h2>Turtle Pond Parkway</h2><br>
<p>Turtle Pond Parkway was built in 1897, and extends southeast from the Bleakie Intersection. It is, like the Dedham Parkway, a two-lane road. It eventually skirts the southwestern edge of the reservation, passing through an intersection with Smithfield Road and Alwin Street. It continues roughly southward, passing the southern tip of the reservation before reaching Boston&#39;s Mill Pond Reservation, and its own terminus at a junction with River Street. River Street provides a connection (on the far side of Mill Pond Reservation) to the Neponset Valley Parkway.</p><br>
<h2>Enneking Parkway</h2><br>
<p>The Enneking Parkway, built in 1897, extends north and east from the Bleakie Intersection. The northern leg extends through much of the reservation, eventually reaching its northern terminus with Washington Street and the West Roxbury Parkway, which continues northward. The eastern leg reaches a junction with West Smithfield Road, before turning into East Boundary Road near the Smith Pond Playground.</p><br>
<p>The Sumner Hill Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area of high-quality late 19th-century residences in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is roughly bounded by Seaverns Avenue, Everett Street, Carolina Avenue, and Newbern Street just east of the neighborhoods commercial Centre Street area. The district features Second Empire, Italianate, and Queen Anne style architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>During the 17th and 18th-century colonial period, the Jamaica Plain area was a predominantly rural agricultural part of Roxbury (then not part of Boston), providing food for Boston. Portions were developed in the latter half of the 18th century as large country summer estates for wealthy Bostonians, including John Hancock, Francis Bernard, and Joshua Loring. The c. 1760 summer of house of Loring, now known as the Loring-Greenough House and located just outside the historic district, is one of the only houses in Jamaica Plain to survive from this period, and its estate grounds included the Sumner Hill area. In the second half of the 19th century, the advent of fast rail-based transportation into Boston led to the area&#39;s development as a streetcar suburb, and the estates were subdivided for development. Development of the Sumner Hill area was begun in the 1850s by the heirs of David Greenough, and went through a second major phase in the late 19th century. The first phase of development was characterized by the construction of large houses on handsome landscaped lots for the upper class, while the later development consisted of more densely built but still high quality housing for a more middle-class clientele.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is about 365 acre in size, and is roughly bounded by Centre Street, Seavern Avenue, Everett Street, and Carolina Street, although its actual boundaries exclude most of the buildings on these surrounding streets. The districts roadways are laid out to accommodate the areas hilly topography, winding around and along its features. Most of the buildings in the district are single-family residences of wood-frame construction, two to three stories in height. There are brick rowhouses along some of the outer roadways. The only non-residential buildings are three churches, which are clustered near the junctions of Elm Street with Revere Street and Seaverns Avenue in the northeastern part of the district, and the former Jamaica Plain High School just to their south on Elm Street. The latter building has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>Symphony and Horticultural Halls are historic buildings at the corner of Massachusetts and Huntington Avenues in the Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The halls were listed as a pair on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Symphony Hall was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Symphony Hall</h2><br>
<p>Symphony Hall is a large, rectangular performance space designed by McKim, Mead and White, and built in 1900 by the Norcross Brothers for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Italian Renaissance Revival building rests on thousands of wooden pilings embedded in filled land, and is one of the city&#39;s first steel-framed buildings. It is clad in brick, with limestone trim. Its main entrance, now on Massachusetts Avenue, was originally intended for arrivals by carriage, while the original main entrance was through the columned portico on Huntington Avenue.</p><br>
<h2>Horticultural Hall</h2><br>
<p>Horticultural Hall was designed by Wheelwright and Haven and completed in 1901. It is a two-story Beaux Arts brick and stone structure, extending along Massachusetts Avenue opposite the current main entrance to Symphony Hall. It was built by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, founded in 1832, and originally housed its offices, as well as a lecture hall and exhibition spaces. It now houses the offices of Boston magazine and the Handel and Haydn Society, among others.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance of the pair</h2><br>
<p>These two buildings are primary examples of a shift in the late 19th and early 20th centuries of Bostons cultural institutions toward spacious Back Bay locations. At the time of their respective constructions, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were both major civic cultural organizations. The area in which they were built was until the 1880s part of Bostons Back Bay. This area, once tidally covered mud flats, had become a fetid cesspool by the 1850s, and was filled in to create new land for development over a three decade period. The orchestra and society were preceded by other major institutions, including the First Church of Christ, Scientist and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, both of which built new facilities along Huntington Avenue, and were followed by New England Conservatory, the Boston Opera House, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Both the opera house and Mechanics Hall were demolished in the 1950s. These buildings are the most distinctive pair left from this period of development.</p><br>
<p>The Textile District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of commercial buildings in the central business district of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of properties roughly on Essex Street from Phillips Square to Columbia Street and Chauncy Street from Phillips Square to Rowe Place. This area was the center of Bostons dry goods commercial business, and was developed between 1888 and 1922. Most of the buildings are between five and eight stories, and were architect-designed to serve mercantile interests. The districts oldest building is the 1889 Romanesque Revival Auchmuty Building at 104-122 Kingston Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Almost all textile stores and factories have now closed—most were family-run businesses without heirs, and some closed due to competition from large superstores such as JoAnn Fabrics. Winmill Fabrics on Chauncy Street is one of the few stores still remaining.</p><br>
<p>The Town Hill District is a historic district bounded roughly by Rutherford Avenue and Main and Warren Streets in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>Town Hill was laid out by Charlestown engineer Thomas Graves in 1629 and was the site of Boston&#39;s first settlement. The unique elliptical street plan forms a tightly delineated neighborhood that survives to this day, one of the few colonial aspects to have survived. City Square (then known as Market Square) is the focus of the neighborhood, historically having been a market as well as the seat of government.</p><br>
<p>During the 18th century, Market Square was paved and other important town institutions, including a courthouse and meeting-house, were built in the district. On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere, on the night of his famous ride, rowed to Charlestown from Boston. Here, he borrowed a horse and departed to sound his warning of British troops on the march all the way to Lexington and Concord.</p><br>
<p>Town Hill is composed of residential and commercial structures dating from as early as 1780, when Charlestown was burned to the ground by the British during the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. Rebuilt after the revolution, the square, then known as Charlestown Square, regained its role as the center of town life. As the 19th century progressed, the square became a crossroads as bridges and grand hotels were built and wharves crowded the waterfront. Most of the buildings are constructed of natural materials including brick, wood, and stone.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Trinity Neighborhood House is a historic brick townhouse at 406 Meridian Street located in the Eagle Hill section of East Boston, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1847 for entrepreneur Noah Sturtevant and was thus named the Noah Sturtevant House. In 1917, it was named the Trinity Neighborhood House and Day Nursery. Since 1888, it operated as a social service center and philanthropy of Trinity Church. The building is now owned by and is a 16-unit single resident occupancy (SRO) facility for the formerly homeless.</p><br>
<p>The House had long been a beneficiary of many notable events. On November 19, 1957, comedian Anna Russell held a concert at Jordan Hall in Boston to benefit the House. On May 8, 1958, noted archaeologist Byron Khun de Prorok gave a beneficiary lecture at the New England Mutual Hall. On February 4, 1960, a screening of the film Sweet Love Rememberd starring Margaret Sullavan was scheduled to benefit the House, but due to her untimely passing, the show was cancelled. The show was replaced with Laurence Oliviers The Tumbler.</p><br>
<p>In 1981, the building was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission and it was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Truman Parkway is a historic parkway in Milton and southern Boston, Massachusetts. It runs along the southern boundary of a portion of the Neponset River Reservation and serves as a connection between the Neponset Valley Parkway and the Blue Hills Parkway. The parkway was built in 1931 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The northern terminus of the parkway is at a junction with Brush Hill Road in Milton, about 1/2 mile south of its junction with Routes 28 and 138. The parkway, a four-lane road, with two lanes in each direction, with a grassy center median strip, then winds southward, roughly following the contours of the Neponset River on the southern edge of the Neponset River Reservation. It has a major junction with Beacon Street and Fairmount Avenue, the latter of which crosses the river into Boston. There is a small local commercial area at this intersection. It then passes through a section with houses lining both sides, until Dana Avenue, at which point a railroad right-of-way to its north separates it from the river. The railroad soon crosses the river, which turns south, and the parkway passes between a section of the Neponset River Reservation and a municipal playground before itself crossing the river into Boston and reaching its southern terminus at the Neponset Valley Parkway.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Unlike other Boston-area parkways, the Truman Parkway was constructed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, and not the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) or its predecessors. It was built in 1931, to standards similar to those used by the MDC for its parkways, and acquired by the MDC in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The United Shoe Machinery Corporation Building is a historic office building at 160 Federal Street in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts. The steel-frame skyscraper has 24 stories and a penthouse, and was built in 1929–1930 to a design by George W. Fuller and Parker, Thomas & Rice for the United Shoe Machinery Corporation. It is one of Bostons finest Art Deco buildings, including an elaborately decorated lobby. It was built for the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, which at the time controlled 98% of the nations shoe machinery business.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and in 1983 it was designated a Boston Landmark with rare interior (lobby) as well as exterior protection by the Boston Landmarks Commission.</p><br>
<p>The Upham&#39;s Corner Market is an historic commercial building at 600 Columbia Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is actually three separate buildings built c. 1919, 1923, and 1926. They were built by brothers John and Paul Cifrino, who were Italian immigrants. They established a small neighborhood grocery store in 1915, before building this series of buildings to house what became an early supermarket. After the third section was built, the store had 50,000 ft&sup2; of space, and was the largest store of its kind in the city, serving a nearby population of more than 250,000. The buildings have been converted to mixed commercial and residential use.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway  is a historic parkway in Boston, Massachusetts and two adjacent towns. The southern terminus of the parkway is at Washington Street in Dedham, from where it travels north and then east, ending at a junction with Centre Street, near the Arnold Arboretum. It passes through a small corner of Brookline just west of its junction with the West Roxbury Parkway. Most of its length, from Spring Street in West Roxbury to its eastern end, is administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation , a successor to the Metropolitan District Commission  which oversaw the road&#39;s construction. The parkway was built in stages between 1930 and 1942, and was designed to provide a parkway connection from the Upper Charles River Reservation to other MDC parks via the West Roxbury Parkway. The DCR portion of the road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The road formerly carried the designation for USA Route 1.</p><br>
<h2>Route description</h2><br>
<p>The parkway begins at an intersection with Washington Street and Boston-Providence Highway in Dedham, essentially as a northward continuation of Providence Highway. It soon crosses into Boston, reaching a major junction near the Charles River with Bridge Street (the eastern terminus of Massachusetts Route 109) and Spring Street. It continues generally northward, flanking parkland adjacent to the river on its left. It crosses the Needham Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail before turning more generally eastward near the junction with Baker Street. The rest of its route is mainly eastward, meeting the West Roxbury Parkway at the Frank R. Kelly Memorial Rotary in the southern tip of Brookline. It then passes the Allandale Woods on its left before reaching its eastern end at Centre Street, a short way west of the Arnold Arboretum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parkway was constructed in three stages. The first section, built between 1931 and 1938, connected Spring Street to the West Roxbury Parkway. In 1941 the southern extension to Washington Street was added, and the eastern connection to Centre Street was built in 1942. The initial construction phase resulted in a two-lane road separated by a median and lined with trees. Many of these trees are still standing, providing a canopy over the roadway. A drainage system was installed in the Baker Street area in 1939, and the southbound lanes south of West Roxbury Parkway were reconstructed in 1941. The eastern section of the parkway was built the following year on the right-of-way of an existing city street. Changes to the parkway have been minimal since its construction; repairs have been made with similar materials.</p><br>
<p>The West Street District is a historic district on West Street in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the city&#39;s "ladder districts" that runs between Tremont Street and Washington Street in the Downtown Crossing commercial/retail area. The district includes four buildings located near the corner of Tremont and West Streets, all built in the early 20th century. The two buildings at 148-150 Tremont Street were once occupied by Chandler and Company, an exclusive department store. Number 148 is a Renaissance Revival structure built as an office building in 1912, and number 150 was built in 1903 to house the Oliver Ditson Company, a music publisher. The Fabyan building at 26-30 West Street was designed by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, and built in 1926. The Schraffts Building at 16-24 West Street was built in 1922, and housed a flagship candy store and restaurant for more than fifty years.</p><br>
<p>The West Street District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Tropical House is a beach house located on Lake Michigans shoreline in Beverly Shores, Indiana. The house was originally built in 1933 as part of the Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition during the 1933 Worlds Fair which took place in nearby Chicago. Today it is part of the Century of Progress Architectural District, a historic district.</p><br>
<p>After years of disrepair, the house is currently being renovated and is subleased to a private renter who has agreed to cover the restoration costs. The Florida Tropical House was designed in such a way that the inside and outside environments are blended together. Its exterior was designed in the Modernist style by architect Robert Law Weed and painted a Floridian pink.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Tropical House, along with four other exhibition homes from 1933, were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, collectively known as the "World&#39;s Fair Houses." The other four are close neighbors of the Florida Tropical House.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The Florida House (as it was called originally) was built in 1933 for the Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition of the 1933 World&#39;s Fair by the State of Florida to showcase itself and to entice tourism to the state. The construction was carried out by the Deigaard & Preston construction firm for a total of approx. $15,000.</p><br>
<p>The house was moved to its current location by real estate developer Robert Bartlett. Bartlett, who wanted to establish a resort community in the area complete with a golf course, hotel, and botanical garden, was responsible for moving six of the exhibition&#39;s homes to the area, brought to Beverly Shores by barge in 1935.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Florida Tropical Houses design was inspired by Floridas tropical climate and blends both the indoor and outdoor environments together with its use of an outdoor terrace. The building was designed in the Modernist style by Miami architect Robert Law Weed with the needs of a Florida resident in mind. This is represented by the fact that some of the original amenities had to be replaced for them to survive the area&#39;s continental climate.</p><br>
<p>The house itself sits atop a concrete slab, which was placed onto a basement foundation when it was moved here in 1935. The exterior is covered with a light-weight concrete stucco painted in pink. Materials used for the building included travertine, limestone, Portland cement and clay tile—all of which are native to Florida. Although it was planned to be built with poured concrete walls, the house was framed in wood in order to save money.</p><br>
<p>The houses interior was carried out by architects James S. Kuhne and Percival H. Goodman from Chicago and New York respectively. was designed in the Modernist style—as was the rest of the house. The central part of the interior features a living and dining room connected via an aluminum staircase to an overhanging balcony with access to the terrace. The houses two bedrooms and the only bathroom, were located on the ground floor.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s flat roof was modeled from that of a storm-proof deck from an ocean liner and included a loggia, deck, and recreation room. Once covered with ceramic tiles, the flooring had to be replaced and covered with roofing for it to endure the harsh mid-western winters. At some point in time, a dumbwaiter was also located on the terrace; however, it was removed shortly after the move to Beverly Shores.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Restoration efforts on the Florida Tropical House were started in 1997, with the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana searching for potential lessees to restore the building. Under the agreement, the private owner would receive a 30-year sublease, providing that they would cover all of the restoration costs, and open the home to the public at least once a year. Restoration on the home is estimated at approx. $450,000 by the current lessee William Beatty, who signed the lease agreement in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Wirth Restaurant is a historic German-American restaurant and bar in Boston, Massachusetts at 31-39 Stuart Street. Founded in 1868, Jacob Wirth is one of the oldest restaurants in Boston.</p><br>
<p>The Greek Revival building housing the restaurant was constructed in 1844. The German style restaurant was founded in 1868 and is the second oldest continuously operating restaurant in the city after the Union Oyster House. The restaurant was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and designated a Boston Landmark in 1977, with interior and exterior protections - see the.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Wirth was the first distributor of Anheuser Busch products. The Wirth family and Anheuser family are from the same small town in Germany.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, Chelsea developer "AJ Simboli Real Estate paid $1.6 million for the 14,000-square-foot eatery,"</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz movie Knight and Day filmed a wedding scene here.</p><br>
<p>it was referenced during a meeting in Andrew Dominik&#39;s Killing Them Softly</p><br>
<p>The Youth&#39;s Companion Building is a historic building at 209 Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. The building is also known as the Pledge of Allegiance Building because the Pledge of Allegiance was written and published there. The building originally had the address 201 Columbus Avenue and also has the address 142 Berkeley Street. It was built in 1892 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>It housed the offices of The Youths Companion, the magazine owned and edited by Daniel Ford that promoted the Pledge of Allegiance. Ford built the building for The Youths Companion and moved the magazine&#39;s headquarters there in 1892, where it remained until 1915, when the magazine moved to a new building near the current Boston University.</p><br>
<p>The architects, Henry W. Hartwell and William Cummings Richardson, also designed a number of other buildings in the Boston area, notably the Belmont Town Hall and Christ Church, Andover.</p><br>
<p>When used by The Youths Companion, the first floor of the building held the business office, correspondence department, subscription and advertising departments with Fords office in the back. The third floor held the premium department, packing and mailing room, and stitching machines. The fifth floor contained the editorial offices, art department and library that had an encyclopedic collection of clippings from over 200 magazines from around the world. The press room was in the basement along with the presses, collators, steam tubular boilers for power binding equipment and two dynamos which generated electricity for lighting.</p><br>
<p>The Hoosac Stores is a historic warehouse at 115 Constitution Road  in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Originally designated Hoosac Stores 1 & 2, it is a six story load-bearing brick warehouse, set just outside the gate of the Boston Navy Yard. A second, adjacent warehouse, identified as Hoosac Stores 3, was demolished in 2000 because it was structurally unsound.</p><br>
<p>The Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 warehouse was built in 1895 as part of wide-ranging state effort to draw trade activity by the Fitchburg Railroad, which operated rail service to Albany, New York. The railroad notoriously included the Hoosac Tunnel, an expensive and politically controversial project in western Massachusetts that was eventually taken over by the state. The Charlestown terminal was known as the "Hoosac Dock".</p><br>
<p>The warehouses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Bellingham Square Historic District is a historic district encompassing the civic and commercial heart of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Roughly bounded by Broadway, Shawmut, Chestnut, and Shurtleff Streets, the district was almost entirely built in the aftermath of the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908, and is a monument to the civic planning that took place at the time. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Bellingham Square is centered on the six-way junction of Broadway, Washington Avenue, Bellingham Street, Hawthorn Street, and 5th Street. The historic district radiates away from this junction and the adjacent City Hall to include civic commercial and residential buildings. The square is home to the Chelsea Public Library and a satellite facility of Bunker Hill Community College, located in the former post office.</p><br>
<p>Chelsea was settled by English colonists in 1624, and was made part of Boston after that city was founded in 1630. It was separately incorporated in 1739, and developed in the 19th century as an industrial center, based first around wooden shipbuilding and then other industries. It was reincorporated as a city in 1857. On April 12, 1908, the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 destroyed the citys commercial and civic heart, as well as 3,000 structures in a 500 acre area. In the wake of this disaster, the state assumed control of the city, and set in motion a modern (for the period) urban planning process to rebuild the fire-ravaged area. New codes governing zoning, building inspection and construction, and fire codes were introduced, and land use of the affected areas was planned. Major architects designed the citys iconic city hall (Peabody and Stearns), library, and post office (both Guy Lowell). The city&#39;s then-sizable Jewish population was recognized in the construction of the Chelsea Free Hebrew School, designed by Jewish architect Samuel Eisenberg.</p><br>
<p>The Bellingham-Cary House is an historic house museum at 34 Parker Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The building, now a Federal style mansion, incorporates in its structure the 1659 hunting lodge of colonial governor Richard Bellingham, and is the only surviving 18th-century building in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bellingham-Cary House stands in a residential area of northeastern Chelsea, on the east side of Parker Street between Tudor Street and Clark Avenue. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a truncated hip roof, two interior chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by Doric pilasters and topped by a transom window, entablature, and gabled pediment. The roof is pierced by three pedimented gable dormers on the front, and one on each of the sides. A two-story hip-rooed ell extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>Richard Bellingham was an Englishman who was involved in the formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company, which formally established the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded Boston in 1630. Bellingham came to Boston in 1634, and served three terms as governor of the colony before his death in 1672. Not long after his arrival, he purchased most of what is now Chelsea, as well as a ferry service between it and Boston. After his death, the quarter of his land that included the house eventually passed to the Cary family in 1741. They enlarged the lodge several times, and about 1791 Samuel Cary greatly expanded the house to create its present appearance.</p><br>
<p>After the deaths of Samuel Cary and his wife, most of the farm was sold off for development. THe house remained in the family until 1914, when a local non-profit organization was established to preserve it. It has been owned since then by the Governor Bellingham-Cary House Association.</p><br>
<p>It won the 2006 Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Award.</p><br>
<p>Naval Hospital Boston Historic District is a historic district at the south end of Broadway in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The district encompasses the area around the former Chelsea Naval Hospital. It consists of five buildings, historically the original 1836 Naval hospital, the 1857 Marine hospital, the Commanding Officer&#39;s quarters, and two ordnance buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>1836 Naval hospital</h2><br>
<p>The original hospital was built of granite and was used as personnel quarters after a new hospital was built in 1915; it has been converted into condominiums.</p><br>
<h2>1857 Marine hospital</h2><br>
<p>The Marine hospital was a three-storey building built of brick with an "I"-shaped footprint; a fourth storey was added in 1866. The building was returned to the Navy in 1940. It has been converted into condominiums.</p><br>
<h2>Commanding Officer's quarters</h2><br>
<p>Parts of the Commanding Officer&#39;s quarters date back to 1856.</p><br>
<h2>Ordnance buildings</h2><br>
<p>Two buildings on the site were built in the early 19th century to handle ordnance for the United States Navy. The buildings were built by the Bureau of Ordnance and the land was transferred back to the hospital in 1910.</p><br>
<p>The larger building was designed to securely store explosives and ordnance and was not intended for human occupancy. It was a building within a building - an 1830s structure, without its original roof, encased within an 1860s structure which added the current exterior walls and a new roof. The architect and engineer Alexander Parris designed the inside structure. The floor is concrete and the interior is raw masonry, unpainted and unfinished. The ceilings are made of brick and include vaults which were designed to contain fire and force explosions upward rather than outward.</p><br>
<p>The smaller building was used for quarters after being returned to the hospital, then as storage space.</p><br>
<p>The Whitney Plantation Historic District is a museum devoted to slavery in the Southern United States. The district, including the main house and outbuildings, is preserved near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, on the River Road along the Mississippi River. The plantation was started in 1752 by German immigrants Haydel and his wife, and their descendants owned it until 1867.</p><br>
<p>The museum, comprising main portions of the 2,000-acre plantation property, The director of research is a Senegalese scholar, Ibrahima Seck, who has done much work on the history of slavery.The grounds contain imaginative exhibits and original art commissioned by Cummings, such as life-size sculptures of children to represent the former slaves who were interviewed for the Federal Writers Project book so that their stories would be told.</p><br>
<p>The French Creole raised-style main house, built in 1803, is the most important architectural example in the state. In addition, the plantation has numerous extant outbuildings or "dependencies": a pigeonnier, a plantation store, the only surviving French Creole barn in Louisiana, and slave quarters (these were moved from another plantation but are typical of what was here). The complex includes three archaeological sites which have had varying degrees of exploration.</p><br>
<p>The 1884 Mialaret House, and its associated buildings and property, were added to the complex by later purchase. They help to reflect the long working history of the plantation. Some of the extensive land is still planted in sugarcane.</p><br>
<p>The historic district was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Whitney Plantation is also one of 26 sites featured on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Representation in other media</h2><br>
<p>Scenes from the 2012 Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained were filmed on and around the plantation.</p><br>
<p>The Atlantic magazine made a short documentary video about the museum, "Why America Needs a Slavery Museum" (2015).</p><br>
<p>Cordero Channel is a strait in British Columbia, Canada, located between the mainland and Vancouver Island, among the Discovery Islands north of the Strait of Georgia. Cordero Channel runs north of Sonora Island, East Thurlow Island, and part of West Thurlow Island. Its eastern end connects to the mouth of Bute Inlet and to Calm Channel, at Stuart Island. Its west end is marked by the mouth of Loughborough Inlet, beyond which the channel is called Chancellor Channel, which continues west to Johnstone Strait.</p><br>
<p>There are four tidal rapids along Cordero Channel. The first is either Yuculta Rapids or Arran Rapids, depending on whether the channel is entered on the north or west side of Stuart Island. The following rapids from east to west are Gillard Passage Rapids, Dent Rapids, and Greene Point Rapids.</p><br>
<p>Cordero Channel was named Canal de Cardero in 1792 during the Spanish expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés y Flores, in honor of José Cardero (sometimes called Josef Cardero), the expeditions artist and draftsman. Cardero sailed on board Valdéss ship, the Mexicana. He had sailed with Alessandro Malaspina from Spain on board the corvette Descubierta, possibly as a servant. After one of the official artists left Malaspinas expedition in Peru, Cardero began regularly producing drawings and was confirmed as an artist of the expedition in Mexico, in 1791. Like Galiano and Valdés, who had also been part of the Malaspina expedition, Cardero was detached from Malaspinas main mission in order to explore the Strait of Georgia. After they returned to Mexico, Cardero assisted Galiano in preparing reports, maps, and engravings. The name Canal de Cardero changed over time to the present form, Cordero Channel, and expanded in geographic scope to include a larger area. The form "Cardero" survives in the name of Cardero Street in Vancouver&#39;s West End. There is also a small fishing lodge named Camp Cordero located at the North end of the Channel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 1792 Spanish expedition of Galiano and Valdés used the term Canal de Cardero for only one part of todays Cordero Channel, that being the portion west of Phillips Arm. Their names for other parts of todays Cordero Channel include Canal de Remolinos (Yuculta Rapids), Angostura de los Commandantes (Arran Rapids), Canal de Carbajal (also Carvajal, north of Sonora Island), Canal del Engaño, and Canal de Olavide (both north of East Thurlow Island and east of Phillips Arm).</p><br>
<p>Near Arran Rapids, which today marks the eastern end of Cordero Channel, the Spanish found a large village whose inhabitants were friendly. They warned the Spanish not to proceed through Arran Rapids because of strong currents and whirlpools. When the tide slackened the Spanish ships as well as a number of indigenous canoes passed through, entering Cordero Channel (this section of which the Spanish called Canal de Carbajal). By use of signs the natives indicated that the channel led to the sea. After making this discovery the Spanish returned to their base of operations where they met with the British expedition of George Vancouver for the last time before rejoining at Nootka Sound. The Spanish told Vancouver of their discovery of a passage to the sea and their intention to follow it. Soon after, a British scouting boat returned, having found Johnstone Strait. The two expeditions parted ways shortly afterwards, on July 13, 1792, with the British sailing through Discovery Passage and Johnstone Strait, while the Spanish went via Cordero Channel, Chancellor Channel, and Wellbore Channel. According to Galiano&#39;s report, Vancouver considered Cordero Channel too dangerous for his ships.</p><br>
<p>From their anchorage between West Redonda Island and Cortes Island, the Spanish set sail for Cordero Channel on July 13, 1792. They sailed up Calm Channel and around the east side of Stuart Island before finally reaching Arran Rapids (Angostura de los Commandantes), the entrance of Cordero Channel, on July 18. They had difficulty entering and were set back several times. On July 19 they met another group of indigenous people who were catching large quantities of fish in the strait. With some guidance from the natives the Spanish came to better understand the nature of the currents and made a plan for passing through. When the tidal current slackened in the afternoon the Spanish ships entered, yet the current was still swift enough to render the ships incapable of steering. At one point Galianos ship, the Sutil, was caught in a whirlpool, but managed to escape. In the late evening, somewhere near Dent Island, they anchored in a cove, which they gave the name Anclage del Refugio. They named the first part of Cordero Channel Angostura de Carvajal and Canal de Carvajal, in honor of Ciriaco Gonzales Carvajal, an auditor of the Spanish Navy in Mexico (who would preside over the audit of Galiano and Valdéss voyage upon their return).</p><br>
<p>The Spanish had difficulty passing Dent Rapids, finally managing to do so on July 23. They were again visited by indigenous canoes of the same natives they had met at Arran Rapids (whom they called the "good Indians"). The natives again provided guidance regarding the currents and suggested a route the Spanish ships should take. In addition the natives made maps for the Spanish, showing which channels were closed inlets and which were straits that led to the sea. The maps were made by placing books on a bed and pencils on a piece of paper.</p><br>
<p>Having reached the northern end of Nodales Channel between Sonora Island and East Thurlow Island, the Spanish decided to continue west along today&#39;s Cordero Channel. They called this section of the channel Canal del Engaño. They entered it on July 26 and made quick progress to another section of Cordero Channel they called Canal de Olavide. They were carried by the current into the section they called Canal de Cardero, unable to steer or make way with oars. At the end of the day they were able to anchor at the mouth of Loughborough Inlet (Canal de Salamanca).</p><br>
<p>The Spanish ships left their anchorage at Viana on July 27, 1792, and entered what is today called Chancellor Channel, thus leaving today&#39;s Cordero Channel. When they reached Hardwicke Island they turned to the northwest, leaving Chancellor Channel for Wellbore Channel (Canal de Nuevos Remolinos), which took them to Sunderland Channel and finally Johnstone Strait.</p><br>
<p>Hayman Island is the most northerly of the Whitsunday Islands, part of the Cumberland Islands, which are located off the coast of Central Queensland, Australia at {{coord|20|03|S|148|53|E|}}. Hayman is a private island open to the public, most famous for its luxury resort which was built in the 1950s by millionaire Reg Ansett, who also founded Ansett Australia. The island is a significant drawing point for tourism in Queensland.</p><br>
<p>The island is small at just 400 hectare in area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Captain James Cook first charted these waters in 1770.</p><br>
<p>Commander George Nares gave Hayman its name in honour of Thomas Hayman, his navigator. The two carried out many exploits together, becoming the first to pass through the Suez Canal and completing a dangerous navigation around Antarctica.</p><br>
<p>Edwin Embury, a schoolteacher, dreamer, and amateur scientist established a biological research laboratory on the island in 1933. The abundant wildlife and proximity to the Great Barrier Reef made Hayman an ideal base for scientific discovery.</p><br>
<p>Whitsundays’ fishermen Bob and Bert Hallam established the Great Barrier Reef Game Fish Angling Club in 1935, attracting local and international game fishing enthusiasts who arrived by coastal steamer. One of them was Zane Grey, American novelist, filmmaker and big game fisherman. Grey planted the first coconut palm on the island and, in 1936, Hayman became the idyllic tropical backdrop for his comedy drama, ‘White Death’.</p><br>
<h2>Luxury resort</h2><br>
<p>In 1947, Australian aviation pioneer, Reginald Ansett acquired the island. Work began on the Royal Hayman Hotel, which opened in 1950 by Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Sir Arthur Fadden in anticipation of a royal visit to Australia, for which Hayman was granted a Royal Charter.</p><br>
<p>Hayman soon earned the reputation as Australia’s foremost leisure and honeymoon destination and attracted widespread international recognition. Arrival on Hayman was by Catalina and Sandringham flying boat. These days, guests to the island arrive by Hayman&#39;s private fleet of luxury motor yachts, and private charter helicopter or Air Whitsunday seaplane.</p><br>
<p>By July 1985, a two-year, A$300 million project commenced to transform the island into a "true luxury lifestyle destination" and in 1987 Hayman was invited to join The Leading Hotels of the World. The resort undertook another significant renovation in 2001 and received many of its modern five-star luxury amenities.</p><br>
<h2>New developments</h2><br>
<p>In June 2004, Mulpha Australia Limited acquired Hayman, and, in January 2010, after almost six years of planning, design and environmental consultations, the final approvals were granted. The initial phase of this strategic plan has included revitalisation of the Hayman pool and the construction of luxurious new Kerry Hill designed beach villas.</p><br>
<p>Hayman re-opened on 1 August 2011 after five months of extensive restoration on the island, due to the severe impact of Tropical Cyclone Anthony and cyclone Yasi earlier that year. This period of closure enabled Hayman to complete the repairs required to landscapes, guest and accommodation areas, activity facilities and essential infrastructure as well as undertake other planned projects.</p><br>
<p>In the surrounds of the resort, a new botanical garden has some 33,000 new plants and 327 new plant species having been introduced by landscape designer, horticulturalist and personality, Jamie Durie, who was engaged to replant Hayman&#39;s 16 hectares of gardens.</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Hayman Island contributed to Australian popular culture when the television series Barrier Reef began filming at Hayman in 1969.</p><br>
<p>In 1972, the first people to row unaided across the Pacific Ocean, Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax arrived at Hayman Island after spending 361 days crossing the ocean.</p><br>
<p>In 1995, then-New Labour Party leader Tony Blair addressed Rupert Murdoch and the leaders of News Corporation at Hayman Island, laying the groundwork for Murdoch&#39;s eventual support of the party in British parliamentary elections.</p><br>
<p>The stony summit Vysoký kámen  lies 8 km west of Kraslice in okres Sokolov  and 1 km from the German border in the Elstergebirge, part of the Erzgebirge.</p><br>
<p>To the east of the hill is Počátky originally Kámen u Kraslic (German: Stein am Hohen Stein) and Kostelní (German: Kirchberg am Hohen Stein), and to the west lies Erlbach with it hamlet Eubabrunn.</p><br>
<p>The ridge of rocks at the summit resemble a ruined castle. It is the western rocks that are used by climbers. They are ideal for beginners, with some low difficulty routes. It is also in the west that one finds the highest point, which rises to 773m. It can be reached by means of a bridge and steel steps- forming a popular panorama point, (German:Aussichtsfelsen) or (Czech:Vyhlidková skála).</p><br>
<p>The ridge continues in a wall like formation, terminating at the eastern end with the Felsturm Zobák (Schnabel) and the monumental Felsen Vêtrná skála (Windfelsen). Near these precipitous formations is a Felsenmeer, a sea of free standing boulders that are in parts united with clay. The rocks are Quartz on a bed of slate. Vysoký kámen is protected as a natural monument since 1907. Even so, since then it has been threatened by quarrying four times.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the second world war, countless fleeing German soldiers used Vysoký kámen as their exit route from German Sudetenland, which was reclassified as Czechoslovakia, back into Saxony. They passed through the thick forest from Eubabrunn and Erlbach over the border, avoiding the borderposts of the US Army of Occupation, and thus avoiding imprisonment.</p><br>
<p>The former restaurant Wirtshaus am Hohen Stein, a well loved daytrip destination was destroyed in 1945 but the 8 m deep well that is hidden in the woods still remains. Vysoký kámen can be reached from Eubabrunn on the Czech side,(using the parking at the Freilichtmuseum). It is about an hour&#39;s walk from there. On the German side the path is made up and well signed.</p><br>
<p>Winthrop Parkway is a historic parkway in Revere, Massachusetts. The parkway, built between 1909 and 1919 and now designated as part of Route 145, runs for about 0.75 mi, from Eliot Circle  southeast to the Revere-Winthrop line. Acquisitions for its construction represent the last public purchase of oceanfront lands in Revere. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Winthrop Parkway was one of several parkways proposed in the coastal area north of Boston, Massachusetts in 1895. Although plans were drafted for it a few years later by the Metropolitan Parks Commission (MPC, predecessor to the Metropolitan District Commission), these plans were shelved while the commission focused on the construction of Winthrop Shore Drive and Revere Beach Parkway. Its development was also complicated by the need to develop a complete new right of way, whereas the other two parkways were built largely on existing alignments.</p><br>
<p>In 1905 the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad gave a stretch of right of way to the MPC between Eliot Circle, terminus of the Revere Beach Parkway, and Leverett Street. This part of the road was built in 1909, cutting through the Beachmont neighborhood of Revere. With the original plan to build to roadway all the way to Winthrop Beach, the MPC in 1914 proposed to lengthen the parkway to the city line. Land acquisition and construction followed, and that section of the road, which runs along the coast, was completed by 1919. The MPC then built the adjacent seawall. Discussions to further extend the parkway never resulted in further development.</p><br>
<p>The roadway was widened in 1946, apparently to facilitate parking. Some time before then, tidal gates were added on either side of the parkway near Leverett Street to regulate the passage of water in and out of Belle Isle Marsh.</p><br>
