Map of-boston

Maps of Boston

An exhibition at 9th Floor of Boston City Hall August 31– December 31, 2013

BostonRedevelopmentAuthority

City of BostonThomas M. Menino, Mayor

Boston Public LibraryNorman B. Leventhal Map Center

Maps of Boston

The purpose of this exhibition is to showcase maps in our collections that demonstrate the changes to the

City of Boston through history. We are selecting citywide maps, as well as maps of Roxbury, the South Boston Waterfront, and the Greenway. These maps

tell the story of the changing cityscape over time.

BostonRedevelopmentAuthority

City of BostonThomas M. Menino, Mayor

Boston Public LibraryNorman B. Leventhal Map Center

A Plan of Boston and its environs

Date: 1775Publisher: Dury, AndrewThis map depicts Revolutionary War Boston

and the vicinity. It was the best contemporaneous map of the military situation just after the Battle of Bunker Hill and prior to the British evacuation of the city.

Source: Boston Public Library Norman B. Leventhal Map Center

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Boston Old and New

Date:1880Author: Winsor, JustinPublisher: Heliotype Printing Co.Noted historian and librarian, Justin Winsor

created this unique map by superimposing the outline of the original Shawmut Peninsula onto an 1880 map of Boston. Though drawn without the assistance of computers or aerial photographs, the map remains one of the most vivid diagrams of the radical transformation and enlargement of the Shawmut Peninsula during the 19th century.



Boston Old and New

Date: 1776

Boston Environs and Vicinity….CarolynWith the use of computers, current streets

are overlaid on this historic shoreline map.

Source: Boston Redevelopment AuthorityOffice of Digital Cartography and GIS

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Map of Boston

Date: 1876Author: A. Williams & Co.Publisher: A. Williams & Co.The neighborhood boundaries of Boston as

depicted in 1876.



Boston and its Vicinity

Date: 1819Author: Hales, John GrovesPublisher: Hales, John GrovesThe neighborhood boundaries of Boston as

depicted in 1819.



Map of Boston Vicinity

Date: 1859Author: Walling, Henry FrancisPublisher: Baker, F. A.• Walling, a Boston-based engineer and

surveyor, specialized in publishing landownership maps of individual towns, cities, and counties in New England, but particularly Massachusetts. One example is this extremely detailed map of Boston and vicinity, showing town boundaries, property owners, roads, railroads, and topography.

• Like many of his other maps, it could be purchased as a folded map stored in a handsome case, or as a wall hanging mounted on rollers. His maps varied greatly in size, some as large as five or six feet square. Information included in these maps was obtained from traveling along existing roads; direction was determined by the surveyors compass and distance by the odometer wheel.



Boston Streets & Neighborhoods

Date: 2011These neighborhood boundaries of Boston

are for planning purposes only, not the official neighborhood boundaries for the City of Boston.


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Boston Figure Ground Map

Date: 2012


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Boston Streets & Neighborhoods

Date: 2011Boston streets and transit.


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1975 General Land Use Plan

Date: 1975Originally from the 1960’s General Plan, each

color represents a land use category.


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2013 General Land Use Map

Description: Land Use in 2013Data Source: City of Boston Assessing

Department FY2013



Illustrative Re-Use Site Plan for the Regional Core

Description


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Map of City of Roxbury

Description


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Map showing Roxbury becoming a part of Boston

Date: 1883This map represents annexations of Roxbury,

Dorchester and West Roxbury to the City of Boston.

Source:


Dudley Square Figure Ground Maps: 1899/2011

These two figure-ground maps show the Ferdinand building(shown in red) in its context. Upper map is based on Bromley Atlas of 1899—three years after the Ferdinand building was built. The urban fabric was much fine-grained and street edges were well-defined then. The map of 2011 shows a much looser urban fabric with street edges harder to be identified. One of the reasons for this difference is that many institutions have replaced traditional residential uses in the Dudley Square area.

Source: Boston Redevelopment AuthorityUrban Design Department

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Transformation of Ferdinand’s Building in Dudley Square

Built in 1896, the Ferdinand building sits, “flanked” by Warren and Washington Streets in Dudley Square.

Source: Photo upper right -Google Maps Inc.Photo lower left-Photographer, Mayor’s

Office


Figure-Ground Maps of the Greenway: 1940/1990/2010

These Figure-Ground Maps of the Greenway are re-created based on diagram used in Urban Design Guidelines for the Central Artery Air Right Parcels by the Boston Redevelopment Authority Urban Design Department.



Greenway

1994

Source: Boston Water & Sewer Commission


Greenway

2001

Source: MassGIS


Greenway

2005

Source: MassGIS


Greenway

2011



Greenway

This is a top view from Boston Redevelopment Authority’s 3D model showing projects under construction, under review and under planning around the Greenway area.



View of Boston Harbor 1870 & 2040

Author: Fuchs, F.Publisher: Weik, JohnDate: 1870 (top)This view of Victorian Boston portrays a

prosperous city undergoing rapid change. Industries are beginning to crowd portions of the waterfront. Clipper ships brought fame to Boston in the 1850s; the steamship subsequently decimated New England’s wooden shipbuilding industry; and the shipping trade was also declining due to the arrival of the railroads in the 1830s. This city was now firmly in the grasp of a new mode of transportation.

Date: 2040 (bottom)This rendering of the City using the Boston

Redevelopment Authority’s digital 3-D model, shows future development of the City from a similar angle. Boston’s economy continues to transition, marked by new development serving the innovation economy.


Boston Redevelopment AuthorityUrban Design Department Wall 5 23 ready to print

Bird’s Eye View from the North 1870 & 2040

Author: Bachmann, JohnPublisher: L. Prang & Co.Date: 1870 (top)

Date: 2040 (bottom)This rendering of the City using the Boston

Redevelopment Authority’s digital 3-D model, shows future development of the City from a similar angle.


Boston Redevelopment AuthorityUrban Design Department Wall 5 24 ready to print

Boston

Date:Author: Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel)Boston's transformation and growth from a colonial

port city originally confined to the physical limitations of the Shawmut Peninsula are outlined on this map.

Starting in the 1790s, bridges were built to connect Boston to the growing urban settlements of Cambridge, Charlestown, South Boston and South Bay.

Bostonians began to increase the peninsula's useable land areas by extending and filling in between wharves, and reclaiming the Mill Pond and tidal flats, along the peninsula's narrow neck. During the 1830s with the introduction of railroads into the New England area, Boston developed a viable transportation alternative to ocean and coastal shipping.

The map was engraved by G.W. Boynton, Boston's leading engraver during the mid-1800s.



Plan for the occupation of flats owned by the Commonwealth in Boston Harbor

Date: 1868Author: Massachusetts. Board of Harbor and

Land CommissionersPublisher: Massachusetts. Board of Harbor

and Land Commissioners



South Boston

1874

Source: Future Boston

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South Boston

1930

Source: Future Boston

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Aerial Photo of South Boston

2010

Source: Google Maps


Rendering of 3D model for South Boston

Date: 2013This is an aerial view from Boston

Redevelopment Authority’s 3D model showing projects under construction, under review and under planning in the South Boston Waterfront area.



South Boston

1994



South Boston

2001

Source: MassGIS


South Boston

2005

Source: MassGIS


South Boston

2011



South Boston

This is a top view from Boston Redevelopment Authority’s 3D model showing projects under construction, under review and under planning in the South Boston Waterfront area.



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