The Back Bay Fens, often called The Fens, is a parkland and urban wild in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1879. Designed by...
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Present-day Back Bay itself was filled by 1882; the project reached existing land at what is now Kenmore Square in 1890, and finished in the Fens[vague] in...
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swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires. The unique water chemistry of fens is a result of the ground or...
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park aspect. The Muddy River and Stony Brook flowed through the Back Bay Fens (the Fens) which were at the time subject to tidal flow, storm flooding,...
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separated from West Fenway by the Muddy River, which flows through the Back Bay Fens and into the Charles River north of Kenmore. The Longwood Medical Area...
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architect Renzo Piano, adjacent to the original structure near the Back Bay Fens, was completed in 2012. In 1990, thirteen of the museum's works were...
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Back Bay Fens in Boston, Massachusetts, were designated with Burns connotations. A life-size statue was dedicated in Burns's honour within the Back Bay...
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street intersects with the Fenway to form the northern boundary of the Back Bay Fens. Here it intersects with the Charlesgate viaduct, connecting to Storrow...
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Back Bay Fens, a park that is part of the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia Back Bay, Newport...
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flat valley and fed into the Back Bay; as the Back Bay was filled, it was directed into the Muddy River in the Back Bay Fens. It powered industries and...
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River and Stony Brook flowed through the Back Bay Fens (an artificial marshland commonly referred to as the Fens) which were at the time subject to tidal...
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created the Boston neighborhoods of the South End, Back Bay, and Fenway-Kenmore. The Back Bay Fens, a freshwater urban wild in the latter area, is a remnant...
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Callahan Tunnel Sumner Tunnel Suffolk Downs Fenway/Kenmore Audubon Circle Back Bay Fens Kenmore Square Boston University (extends into Allston) Longwood Medical...
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Law Olmsted in the 1890s. Starting at the Landmark Center end of the Back Bay Fens, the parkway follows the path of the Muddy River south to Olmsted Park...
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Atherton was Trustee Secretary. The campus was established in Boston's Back Bay Fens, and Arthur L. Williston was the first principal of the college. On...
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and Brookline Avenue; also the meeting point of the Riverway and the Back Bay Fens, two links of the Emerald Necklace park system designed in the 19th...
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Boston (category 1630 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
Olmsted to run through the city. The Emerald Necklace includes the Back Bay Fens, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Pond, Boston's largest body of freshwater...
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land has since fallen into disuse. The Fenway Victory Gardens in the Back Bay Fens of Boston, Massachusetts, and the Dowling Community Garden in Minneapolis...
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of the river basin as well its tributaries upstream, including the Back Bay Fens and Muddy River and to prevent sea water from entering the Charles River...
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and the Avenue Louis Pasteur Culvert. The Muddy River continues from the Fens toward its connection with the Charles River via the Charlesgate area, running...
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bronze statue in the Back Bay Fens, by Henry Hudson Kitson and erected in 1920, moved to Winthrop Square in 1975 and relocated back to its original location...
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Austin Block Study Report" (PDF). Boston Landmarks Commission (1983). "Back Bay Fens Study Report" (PDF). Berg, Shary Page (n.d.). "Restoring Olmstead's...
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late in the nineteenth century by filling in marshland or "fens", to create the Back Bay Fens urban park. However, given that Taylor's family also owned...
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the Charles River. The northern edge of Olmsted Park connects to the Back Bay Fens and the western edge of the Mission Hill neighborhood. Olmsted, who...
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County Parks System Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia Planting Fields, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York Pope Park (Hartford, Connecticut) The Portland park...
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Expressway (Massachusetts Turnpike) near the Charles River Running under the Back Bay Fens along the Fenway or Park Drive Connection with the Southwest Corridor...
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allow riders to use the nearby bridle paths of Frederick Law Olmsted's Back Bay Fens. It contained a riding ring, changing rooms and lounges, and spaces...
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Burns will be coming home to Back Bay Fens – The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. "Boston's Robert Burns Statue in the Fens | National Trust for Scotland...
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the Charles River Esplanade, the redesign of Frederick Law Olmsted's Back Bay Fens and the zoological park at Franklin Park, all three in Boston. He served...
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known as the Johnson Gates) is a pair of fountains that borders the Back Bay Fens at the end of Westland Avenue in Boston. Westland Gate was designed...
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