Boston: Portrait of a City

History

Whitehill, Walter Muir

Knowles, Katherine

Americas

CROWN PUB.

This urbane and delightful book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation and is richly illustrated with 32 additional photographs and drawings. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline. Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping human the features of a beloved city.

Boston: A Topographical History, Third Enlarged Edition

Kennedy, Lawrence W.

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

This urbane and delightful book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation and is richly illustrated with 32 additional photographs and drawings. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline. Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping human the features of a beloved city.

Belknap Press

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION 
 In this urbane and delightful book, Walter Muir Whitehill follows the course of Boston's history, describing the changing face of the city and the society that changed with it, through more than three hundred years. This edition includes a chapter describing the major changes of the city since 1958, as well as new pictures. Generously illustrated, written with a knowledge of and affection for a great city that are visible on every page, this book speaks equally to those who know Boston well and those who are discovering the city for the first time.

Boston: A Topographical History, Second Enlarged Edition

Boston: A Topographical History

Harvard University Press

Boston a Topographical History

Harvard U. Pres

Dumbarton Oaks: The History of a Georgetown House and Garden

Boston Public Library: A Centennial History

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: A Centennial History (2 Volumes)

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The late Walter Muir Whitehill was the Director of the Boston Athenaeum.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: A Centennial History, Volume II

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