Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours
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Book Description
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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Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours
Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours,May Melvin Petronella,Edward W. Gordon,Northeastern University Press,1555536050,Boston,Boston (Mass.),Guidebooks,Historic buildings,Historic sites,Massachusetts,Tours,Travel,Travel - United States,United States - 19th Century,United States - New England - Massachusetts,United States - South - General,Walking,Travel & holiday guides,Walking, hiking, trekking
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