Claim: Old Harbor Reservation Parkways was built in 1893 by architect Arthur Shurcliff in Seattle which was incorporated in 1822.
Evidence: Frederick Law Olmsted
Arthur Shurcliff Later aspects of this work were designed by Olmsted protege Arthur Shurcliff. When Frederick Law Olmsted drafted his plans for Boston's Emerald Necklace of parks in the 1870s, it included the notion of a connection between Franklin Park and the coastline of South Boston and Dorchester, with a waterfront park area. The first formal proposal for the parkland that is now Joe Moakley Park and the causeway connecting Castle Island to the mainland were submitted by Olmsted in the 1880s. Old Colony Avenue was laid out in 1898 on a former railroad right-of-way, but the Strandway (now the southern part of Day Boulevard) was not completed until the 1920s. After his graduation in 1896, he joined Olmsted's Brookline landscape architecture firm. Shurcliff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1889–1894), and upon the advice of Charles Eliot and Frederick Law Olmsted, enrolled at Harvard University for studies in art history, surveying, horticulture and design.