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Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours

by Mary Melvin Petronella

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Publisher Comments:

These twelve unique walking tours of Boston's nineteenth-century landmarks and luminaries provide enlightening discoveries of the city's Victorian heritage.

Book News Annotation:

Visitors to Boston as well as the city's own history-minded residents will enjoy this pithy guide for 12 walking tours that highlight Boston's architecture, culture, industry, and politics in the Victorian era. Each tour includes a map, detailed paragraphs describing the history of the stops along the way, b&w photos with both historic and current views, and painstaking directions to guide the visitor's steps. Tours include the South End, the North End, the Black Heritage Trail, and Boston's Victorian authors.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

This lavishly illustrated guidebook to the many distinctive attractions of Boston's Victorian heritage provides the walker and the armchair traveler alike with delightful and enlightening discoveries of the city's remarkable treasure trove of nineteenth-century landmarks and luminaries.

Victorian Boston Today, edited by Mary Melvin Petronella for the New England Chapter of the Victorian Society of America, includes a beautifully drawn map for each tour, and contains such features as expanded descriptive captions for the profuse vintage illustrations, telephone numbers and web addresses for sites open to the public, directions between tour sites, information about public transportation, and a wealth of other practical enhancements and tips.

From the South End's signature residential squares to the Black Heritage Trail to Jamaica Plain's pastoral landscape, these walking tours vividly recapture the spirit of Victorian Boston. The guidebook will fascinate Boston residents, tourists, and historians, and it will provide inspiration for the active preservation of the city's magnificent buildings and neighborhoods.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781555536053
Subtitle:
Twelve Walking Tours
Editor:
Petronella, Mary Melvin
Foreword:
Gordon, Edward W.
Editor:
Petronella, Mary Melvin
Foreword:
Gordon, Edward W.
Publisher:
Northeastern University Press
Location:
Boston
Subject:
Walking
Subject:
United States - New England - Massachusetts
Subject:
Historic sites
Subject:
Historic buildings
Subject:
Boston
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
v. 104
Publication Date:
August 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8.44x6.34x.73 in. 1.12 lbs.
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