In 1975, the Boston Children’s Museum presented an exhibit and fair on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. This book documents that event.
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The damage to the building will be from $25,000 to $30,000. The building was erected by the old town of West Roxbury as a Town Hall in 1868. It became City property when the town became part of the city. It was named for Nelson Curtis, the old-time contractor. He gave the land on which the building stands to the town, of which he was a Selectman.
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In 1640 the colonial legislature granted to Captain Joseph Weld, for his service in the Indian Pequot War, 278 acres in what was then the town of Roxbury, now mostly Jamaica Plain. The homestead included much of today’s Arnold Arboretum.
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Bromley Park today is one half of the twenty-three acre public housing development in the north end of Jamaica Plain known as Bromley Heath.
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The twentieth century was an epoch of vast experimentation and change. No where can this be seen more than in the design and construction of low-cost housing. The architectural heritage of Jamaica Plain has remarkable examples of the three phases in housing designed and built to be affordable to the working man.
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Forest Hills Cemetery was originally set aside in 1848 by the City of Roxbury as a city cemetery. In the corner of the grounds near Walk Hill and Canterbury streets, explorers will find the glass-enclosed white marble statue titled “Boy in the Boat,” and marked LL on the cemetery’s map of curiosities.
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Egleston Square is a classic example of housing development following public transit lines. It also shows how the expanded capacity of the transit lines made possible public acceptance of increased density with the development of multi-family housing between 1910 and 1930.
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Until the 1920's, according to a long time Jamaica Plain resident, the house faced Centre Street. The 1874 Boston City Directory suggests that the entrance to the confectioners shop was on Centre St. and the residential entrance on Eliot. The property was sold in 1873 to Anthony Hankey, although his brother Joseph evidently continued to live there until his death in 1880.
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Forest Hills Cemetery was originally set aside in 1848 by the City of Roxbury as a city cemetery. In the corner of the grounds near Walk Hill and Canterbury streets, explorers will find the glass-enclosed white marble statue titled “Boy in the Boat,” and marked LL on the cemetery’s map of curiosities.
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