Commonwealth Avenue Mall

Emerald Necklace's Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Job #00944, Boston, MA

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Location:

Boston, MA

Significance:

Olmsted Designed Landscape

MANAGED BY:

City of Boston

This grand allee of shade trees forms the central spine of the Back Bay neighborhood and a strong link in the Emerald Necklace park system. The Mall features memorial sculptures honoring outstanding people; from Revolutionary War heroes to fallen firefighters. The residential streets of Back Bay are some of the best preserved examples of late 19th-century urban landscape architecture in the country.

Source: "Commonwealth Avenue Mall," The Cultural Landscape Foundation

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