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E M ERALD GREENSPACES NECKLACE E M ERALD nearby parks N E CKLACE MAP AND GUIDE parks © Cecily Miller © Jill K. Conley © Jill K. Conley © Dan Tobyne © Don Eunson © Dan Tobyne PARKWAYS PUBLIC GARDEN Predating most of the , This “country park” is the largest park—almost 500 Parkways were an integral element of the portion Olmsted Park was designed as “a chain of picturesque ’s challenge in 1878 was to The Public Garden was established in 1837 Forest Hills Cemetery was designed by Henry estled amid the bustle of a acres—and crowning jewel of the Emerald Necklace. of the Emerald Necklace park system designed by fresh-water , alternating with attractive natural groves reclaim an area that was described as “the foulest marsh by a group of Proprietors as the first public botanical © DCR A.S. Dearborn in 1848 as Boston’s first rural Named for Benjamin Franklin, the park was to provide Frederick Law Olmsted. Originally laid out as and meads.” Pathways, bridges, and plantings, designed in and muddy flats to be found anywhere in …” garden in the . In 1852 it was returned to city ESPLANADE cemetery. It immediately became popular as vibrantN modern city, a delightful urban “complete escape from the town” and brings together carriage roads, the parkways were intended as pleasure tandem, allow the visitor to experience a series of visual He succeeded by combining sanitary engineering and control, and after passage of the Public Garden act a picturesque park and as well as rural scenery, 200 acres of woodlands, and active routes following the meanderings of the Muddy River, vignettes as scenery changes with every step. To help landscape art to create what today would be called an of 1858, it was laid out essentially in its present form. The Storrow Memorial Embankment known as burial ground. With its winding roads and scenic oasis beckons: the Emerald Necklace. recreation facilities. These include tennis and basketball connecting the parks from the Back Bay Fens in the draw wildlife into the park, Olmsted built two islands in ecological restoration. Significantly filled and altered The beauty of the lies in the overlooks, groves of forest, and ornamental courts, baseball fields, the region’s premier cross country heart of the city to the more rural Franklin Park. “The Esplanade” is the crown jewel of DCR’s Weaving continuously for seven miles Leverett to provide “well-guarded seclusion” for birds during the 20th century, the Back Bay Fens now provides Lagoon, Swan Boats, sculpture, fountains, elaborate Basin. Stretching three miles lake, Forest Hills embodied the romantic concept track, and an 18-hole golf course. A 72-acre zoo is also Although the parkways have become major commuter who wished to nest there. Today, people are drawn to a variety of recreational opportunities, from gardening, flower beds, and its notable trees. All these features make that nature is essential to consoling the bereaved part of what the park has to offer, along with miles of routes, they continue to provide scenic glimpses into along the river, the Esplanade provides for a from the historic center of Boston the athletic fields, the wildflower meadow, the seclusion to concerts, to sports. The Fens is surrounded by some the park a favorite spot for small weddings (by permit). diversity of recreation including biking, boating, and to the spiritual and physical well-being of some of the best walking trails in the city. the parks and a more verdant experience for drivers, of the woodlands, and the restored Allerton Overlook. of Boston’s major cultural and educational institutions. city dwellers. Its 250-acres are filled with trea- through a dozen neighborhoods, this cyclists, and pedestrians alike. and playing ball. The Hatch Memorial Shell is located here, which attracts hundreds of sures of sculpture and memorials to legendary inviting green space connects people thousands of people to special events including Bostonians. Information on tours and events: the Boston Pops July 4th concert. Water quality www.foresthillstrust.org and nature, just as landscape architect in the Basin has improved dramatically in recent Frederick Law Olmsted intended more years, creating better habitat for wildlife and attracting people back to the river. than 100 years ago. Nine distinct parks, varied yet unified, offer a full range of experiences, be it a tranquil respite on a shaded bench or active pastimes such as basketball, hiking, and sailing. From © Boston Nature Center an arboretum to a zoo, the Emerald © Archives © Dan Tobyne © Solomon Fund © Jill K. Conley © Boston Parks and Recreation BOSTON NATURE CENTER Necklace’s attractions are as diverse ARNOLD ARBORETUM THE COMMONWEALTH Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center is a as the New seasons. Ice skate, SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR 67-acre community education center and Established in 1872, this is ’s first An early water source for Boston, this 68-acre “- The Riverway, which forms part of the border between AVENUE MALL The oldest park in the United States, the Com- wildlife sanctuary in the heart of the city. Some garden, play golf, toss a football . . . or public arboretum and one of the world’s leading hole” was formed by retreating glaciers. Olmsted was Boston and Brookline, is a narrow park of approximately mon has been shared land since 1634 and holds a This 4.7-mile, 52-acre, stretches from 2.5 miles of trails and boardwalks traverse centers for the study of plants. A National Historic enamored of the pond’s “great beauty in reflections and 34 acres that runs along the Muddy River. Olmsted This grand allée of shade trees forms the central spine unique place in the and the nation. simply stroll along the curving path- of the Back Bay neighborhood and a strong link in the Back Bay to Forest Hills. Some of the parkland meadows and wetlands where wildlife abounds, Landmark, it is owned by the City of Boston and flickering half-lights.” Today, the Boathouse at Jamaica described the Muddy River as “a fresh-water course Though the landscape has changed from pastures and is decked over the Orange Line tracks, providing including coyotes, pheasants, and many species managed by under a 1,000-year Pond provides facilities for sailing and row boating. bordered by passages of rushy meadow and varied slopes…” the Emerald Necklace park system. The Mall features militia training grounds to a well-loved park with open ways and admire the next picturesque memorial sculptures honoring outstanding people; a diversity of greenspace, recreational facilities of migratory birds. The George Robert White lease signed in 1882. A unique blend of beloved Visitors can fish (by permit), and the pond is stocked While it looks like a natural landscape, this park was lawns, shaded pathways, ballfields, tennis courts and a and miles of biking, jogging and walking paths. The Environmental Conservation Center is Boston’s vista. The Emerald Necklace: a world public landscape and respected research institution, each year. A beautiful 1.5-mile path around the pond is almost completely constructed, including over 100,000 from Revolutionary War heroes to fallen firefighters. playground, the Common remains an active meeting The residential streets of Back Bay are some of the park was built as a result of community protests first municipal building designed and constructed the arboretum’s 265 acres of rolling land include a favorite of strollers and runners alike. In October, the plantings. It contains some of the most beautiful ground in the heart of historic Boston. For over 350 in the ’50s and ’60s against the plans for a major using ecologically sound construction practices apart, but just steps away. meadows, forest, and ponds. Its collection of over annual Lantern Festival brings thousands of people, some bridges within the Emerald Necklace, many designed best preserved examples of late 19th-century urban years it has been a center and a mirror of civic life. architecture in the country. highway along the railroad right-of-way between such as photovoltaic shingles, geothermal climate 15,000 trees, shrubs, and vines is one of the larg- in full Halloween costume, for a walk around the pond by the successor architectural firm to Henry Hobson Boston and Rte. 128. Highway funds were instead control, renewable resources, and recycled est and best documented collections in the world. to create their own “flickering half-lights.” Richardson, the famed 19th-century architect and Because of space limitations, this map highlights only four of the nine sculptures along the mall. For more information about the used to develop mass transit, open space and materials. www.massaudubon.org/boston. designer of Boston’s in Square. sculptures: www.walkboston.org/resources/images/commaveMap.pdf recreational facilities.

As the Common, Public Garden, and Mall were Postcards, circa 1900-1920 Map Donors Friends of the Public Garden responses to historic needs and circumstances, PARK STEWARDS Since 1970, the Friends of the Public Garden Olmsted’s work in the 1880s was a response This map is made possible by the following E M ERALD The extraordinary 1,100 acres of the Emerald has been dedicated to preserve, protect and generous donors: to the needs of his generation. With the city FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED Necklace are owned and cared for by the joint enhance the Public Garden, Boston Common and Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston’s three ● N E CKLACE having tripled in size and home to nearly a NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE efforts of Boston, Brookline, and the Common- Emerald Necklace Conservancy half-million residents, Olmsted saw the need for wealth of Massachusetts. These public agencies hold premier historic parks in the heart of the city. ● an expanded common ground to which all the parks in trust for the public, ensuring the parks Through a highly effective partnership with the (Challenge Cost Share Program) Frederick Law Olmsted moved his are open to everyone, everyday, year-round. City, the Friends have planted and maintained people could come for healthful relief from the ● John & Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation egacy home from New York to suburban hundreds of specimen trees, restored fountains l ● city’s noise, pollution, and congestion. Boston in 1883. At “Fairsted” he Boston Parks & Recreation and monuments, helped to establish and support Department of Conservation and Recreation established the world’s first full-scale manages most of the Necklace’s the Park Rangers, and created educational and ● Friends of the Public Garden The richly varied parks of the Emerald Olmsted designed six additional parks, each professional office for the practice park land, which accounts for recreational park programs. Through advocacy, ● Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Necklace reflect people’s very different distinct yet connected, forming a continuous of landscape design. During the next more than half of the depart- education, and hands-on care, the Friends play an ● Brookline Parks & Open Space ment’s total park acreage. ● attitudes about, and uses of, landscape across seven-mile green space. But unlike their more century, his sons and successors essential role in ensuring that these public treasures Coalition more than four centuries—from the colonists formal predecessors, he designed the new In the 1990s, BP&R under the leadership of continue to be healthy, vital places for those who ● Boston Parks & Recreation perpetuated Olmsted’s design ideals, late Parks Commissioner Justine Mee Liff helped of the 1600s to the “father of landscape archi- parks in a fluid, naturalistic style. Image courtesy of the Paget Family live, work and visit the City of Boston now and in ● philosophy, and influence. Today the spearhead the renewal of the Olmsted-designed Forest Hills Cemetery tecture” in America, Frederick Law Olmsted, years to come. ● Forest Hills Educational Trust © NPS Olmsted National Historic Site two-acre site is a unit of the National parks. www.cityofboston.gov/parks 617.635.PARK in the late 1800s, to the present day. In some places, such as at Jamaica Pond, he Park Service and holds a vast archi- ● Medical Academic and Scientific Community subtly reshaped the landscape to enhance its FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED val collection representing over 5000 Brookline Parks & Open Space Organization (MASCO) Not long after arriving in Boston, early existing picturesque qualities. Other parks projects across North America. This manages the western sides of Olmsted ● Mass Audubon Boston Nature Center Park and the Riverway. Brookline ● colonists—in the English custom—set aside required enormous feats of engineering, such Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is includes over 2000 plans and close Alliance a shared pasture, or “common,” for grazing as altering the topography of the Riverway to has the unique distinction of having ● Friends of Jamaica Pond recognized as the founder of American to 1000 photographs of the Emerald added to the acreage of Olmsted livestock. Today, human activity fills Boston transform a river, once dangerously polluted, ● and the nation’s Necklace. The site also offers a variety Park in the late 1990s by converting a NewEnglandTravelPlanner.com Common—America’s oldest public park which into a public pleasure ground. foremost parkmaker. Beginning with Central of public and curriculum-based educa- redundant road into a fully landscaped, dual path ● Wellesley Garden Study Group anchors the northeast end of the Emerald Park in 1858, Olmsted changed the way cities tion programs. system. www.brooklinema.gov/parks 617.730.2088 ● Zoo Necklace in the city’s dense downtown core. More than a century later, the Emerald looked and provided much needed space for © Emerald Necklace Conservancy ● Friends of the Muddy River Necklace is still an exceptional example The Massachusetts Department of Dedicated Emerald Necklace Conservancy volunteers help care for the roses in the ● Ferris Wheels people to escape the harsh conditions of 99 Warren Street Kelleher Rose Garden in the Back Bay Fens. Adjacent to Boston Common, the Public of landscape design and urban planning. Conservation and Recreation ● Jill K. Conley the 19th-century city. He also believed that Brookline, MA 02445 has “care, custody and control” of the Garden was built in 1837 as the country’s first Olmsted’s parks, as well as the Common, bringing nature into the city could make not 617.566.1689 www.nps.gov/frla public , an expression of the Public Garden and Mall, are listed in the Emerald Necklace Parkways, which DIRECTORY OF STEWARDSHIP only the individual healthier and happier, but are managed as scenic, pleasure- ORGANIZATIONS Victorian era passion for ornamental plantings. National Register of Historic Places and would nurture the democratic spirit of all vehicle roadways and protected The Commonwealth Avenue Mall (1856), a Arborway Coalition: attract visitors from around the world. They citizens. After the Civil War, Olmsted would under the Massachusetts Historic www.arborway.net/coalition—617.276.5093 grand 12-block approach to the Public Garden, give particular joy and satisfaction to all who expand his portfolio to include the design Parkways Initiative. www.mass.gov/dcr Arboretum Park Conservancy: 617.626.1250 was laid out in the Parisian-inspired boulevard seek beauty and respite from the dense urban of suburban communities, college campuses, www.arboretumparkconservancy.org Emerald Necklace Conservancy: style as the central spine of the new Back Bay environment, a common ground connecting the grounds of hospitals, as well as other residential district. people and nature. Emerald Necklace Conservancy www.emeraldnecklace.org—617.522.2700 landscapes. He also became active in the The Emerald Necklace Conservancy brings people Emerald Necklace Project: nascent conservation movement and helped to together to renew, enliven and advocate for 617.777.7151 have Yosemite Valley set aside as public space. the Emerald Necklace parks designed by Fenway Garden Society: Olmsted began his work on the Emerald Frederick Law Olmsted. Programs and projects www.fenwayvictorygardens.com—617.267.6650 Franklin Park Coalition: Necklace during the late 1870s and believed reflect this mission and include: Parks restoration and maintenance; stewardship and volunteer www.franklinparkcoalition.org—617.442.4141 his effort would be opening “new chapters” activities; education programs and tours; as well as Friends of Jamaica Pond: in the art of landscape design. “Twenty years events in the parks. The Conservancy builds strong www.friendsofjamaicapond.org—617.524.7070 hence,” he told his sons and associates, “you partnerships with the public-sector park owners, with Friends of Leverett Pond: Peters Hill © Arnold Arboretum Archives will be looking back to Muddy River as I do neighborhoods and individuals, businesses and www.highstreethill.org/folp © NPS Olmsted National Historic Site Friends of the Muddy River: Credits Central Park.” Today the Emerald Necklace is organizations, in order to keep these world-class, 617.566.9720 ● considered a paradigm for the planning of Olmsted-designed parks healthy and vibrant for Jill K. Conley, graphic design/map design today and tomorrow. Friends of the Public Garden: ● Ken Dumas, cartography linear park systems. www.friendsofthepublicgarden.org—617.723.8144 ● © NPS Olmsted National Historic Site Alan Banks, Ken Krause, writers The Muddy River was completely re-shaped by teams of men and horse-drawn machines. The photo on the left shows how the new river banks looked in ● Don Eunson, project manager 1892, ready for plantings. By 1920, Olmsted’s vision had grown into reality. ● Dan Tobyne, cover photo

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1 White Stadium 6 Schoolmaster Hill: Named for 12 Bonsai Collection: See the oldest 16 Pinebank Promontory: A peaceful spot in this 21 Leverett Pond: Leverett Pond is a fine example 26 James P. Kelleher Rose Garden: Designed by 30 Victory Gardens: Victory Gardens were cultivated dur- 35 Statue: Publisher of 41 Central Burying Ground: Purchased in 1756 and who lived near this site in the 1820s when he was a and smallest trees at the Arboretum. Open mid-April to busy park, the promontory’s stunning views across the of Olmsted’s skill combining landscape, water, and landscape architect Arthur Shurcliff in the 1920s, this ing World Wars I and II to ease demand on the wartime “The Liberator” and founder of the New England Anti- added to the Common in 1839, this is the final resting 2 Overlook Shelter Ruins: Originally a field house, it schoolteacher in Roxbury. This hidden spot has picnic early November. Pond and cooling breezes through tall made it an structure into his designs. Islands were created to provide garden was restored by the City of Boston and the food supply. Today the plots are tended by recreational Slavery Society, Garrison was a powerful voice in the place for Revolutionary War soldiers and many others. was one of the few structures Olmsted ever designed. The tables, century-old white pines, and offers a spectacular attractive site for three successive mansions in the 1800s. both visual interest and waterfowl breeding area. Emerald Necklace Conservancy. Combining the best of gardeners who pay a small yearly fee—and grow much more abolitionist movement. Olin Levi Warner, Sculptor site was the home to Elma Lewis’ Playhouse in the Park in view across the park and to the Blue Hills beyond. 13 Hunnewell Building: This building houses Today, a granite outline marks the footprint of the last old and new roses, today’s garden includes over 1,500 than vegetables. 42 Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument: the ’60s and ’70s, and jazz greats, including Duke Ellington, administrative offices, a library open to the public, and a mansion that stood here. 22 Bellevue Street Bridge: plants representing 200 different varieties. 36 Alexander Hamilton Statue: Hamilton, a Founding , Sculptor performed here. 7 The Wilderness: A 65-acre native forest with visitor center with knowledgeable staff to help make the 31 Boylston Bridge: Designed by prominent 19th-century Father who also started the central banking system, meandering paths and huge Roxbury puddingstone most of your visit. Maps, brochures, restrooms, as well as 17 Ward’s Pond: This secluded pond is a glacial “kettle- 23 Chapel Street Bridge Area/Historic Bridle 27 War Memorials architect H. H. Richardson, this bridge is constructed of Cape welcomes visitors to the Mall between Arlington and 43 Frog Pond: Site of 1848’s “Water Celebration” inaugurating 3 The Playstead: A large, active sports area that accom- outcroppings, the Wilderness is a picturesque landscape a small bookstore. Visitor center hours: Mon–Fri 9am–4pm, hole” formed at the end of the last ice age. A serene, Paths: Bridges played a key role in all of Olmsted’s work, Ann granite. Projecting bays, or “tourelles,” offer sweeping Berkeley streets. Dr. William Rimmer, Sculptor the city’s public water system, today the pond serves as a modates basketball, tennis and many field sports. and a good example of urban woodlands. Sat 10am–4pm, Sun noon–4pm heavily wooded area, the visitor finds a quiet wilderness, not only along rivers, but everywhere that he sought to 28 Japanese : Found on a scrap heap in Yokosuka, views across the Fens. skating rink in the winter and a supervised wading pool in steps from the surrounding city. separate different modes of transportation. The Chapel this beautiful 325-year-old was brought 37 9/11 Memorial the summer. The Tadpole Playground is nearby. 4 : Founded in 1912, the zoo’s 72 8 The 99 Steps/Ellicott Arch 14 Jamaica Pond Boathouse/Bandstand: Built in Street Bridge separated walkers above from the bridle back by sailors on the USS Boston in 1945. In 1953, the 32 Leif Eriksson Statue acres are home to lions, tigers, giraffes, and more. Visitors 1912, these Tudor-style structures add a rustic element 18 Wildflower meadow: Once the site of an indoor ice path below. Japanese government wished it to remain in Boston as a 38 Statue: Thomas Ball, Sculptor 44 Shaw Memorial: This honors the 54th Regiment of the to the signature Tropical Forest can stand face-to-face with 9 Scarboro Pond and Hill to the pond. Visitors can rent sailboats or rowboats to skating rink, the meadow now offers unique habitat for gesture of world peace. 33 Boston Women’s Memorial: Mayor Thomas M. Menino Massachusetts infantry. Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the Zoo’s seven gorillas at one of five glass viewing stations. enjoy unique views of the park or simply drift on the butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. reserved the site for a women’s memorial in 1992. The Boston Swan Boats: These iconic pedal boats first appeared on 24 Round House Shelter 39 the 54th was the first free black regiment in the Union. Heroic statues by flank the north 10 Peters Hill: The highest point in the Emerald Necklace, water (www.courageoussailing.org). The Bandstand is home 29 Gatehouses: These massive, granite buildings in the Women’s Commission selected Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, the Lagoon in 1877. Designed by Robert Paget, they are still Bronze relief by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Granite frame and entrance. $ www.franklinparkzoo.org Peters Hill (240 feet) offers spectacular views of Jamaica to numerous recreational, educational, and cultural 19 Daisy Field: Olmsted originally designed this as a large Richardsonian style, were built to regulate the waters of and as exemplary figures. Meredith Bergmann, owned and operated by the Paget Family. $ terrace by Charles F. McKim Plain, Roslindale, and the Boston skyline. activities. The Boathouse is open April 1 through Veteran’s Day. meadow surrounded by woods. Today, playing fields serve 25 Joseph Lee Playground (Clemente Field): Stony Brook flowing into the Muddy River. (Future site Sculptor 5 William J. Devine Golf Course: Originally a sheep community groups for little league, softball, soccer and This area accommodates softball, soccer, lacrosse, of Emerald Necklace Conservancy visitor center) 40 Sculpture: Mrs. Mallard and her 45 meadow in Olmsted’s design, this 18-hole facility is the 11 Explorers Garden: The area around Chinese Path 15 Parkman Memorial: Daniel Chester French, Sculptor touch football. football, basketball and a recreational running track. One 34 Statue: This scholar, educator, eight ducklings were created as a tribute to Robert McCloskey, second oldest public golf course in the country. Open year has long been used by researchers to test the hardiness of the diamonds was named in honor of Roberto and maritime historian was the Pulitzer-prize winning author author of a children’s book about ducks that live in the Public Boston Common Visitors’ Center and Park round, weather permitting. $ 617.265.4084 of new plants gathered from around the world by plant 20 Allerton Overlook: This semi-circular walk descends Clemente—the first Latin American elected to the of the “Oxford History of the United States” (1927) and Garden’s Lagoon. Nancy Schön, Sculptor 46 Ranger Station: Maps, tourist information, and rest- explorers. Don’t miss rare and unusual plants like the into the park and provides scenic views of the banks and Baseball Hall of Fame—who died in a plane crash while “The Oxford History of the American People” (1965). rooms. This also marks the start of the ®. dove tree, paperbark , or Franklinia. islands of Leverett Pond. doing humanitarian work in Central America. Penelope Jencks, Sculptor Hours: Monday–Saturday, 8:30 am–5pm; Sunday 10am–6pm