Lost Boston
By: Jane Holtz Kay
Edition: Expanded & updated ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780395966105
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Lost architecture; History
Description: "Lost Boston offers a chance to see the city as it once was, revealing architectural gems that were lost long ago. An eminently readable history of the city's physical development, Lost Boston also makes an cloquent appeal for its preservation. Jane Holtz Kay traces the evolution of Boston from the barren, swampy peninsula of colonial times to the booming metropolis of today. In the process she creates the city's family album, infused with the flavor and energy that make Boston unique.

Portrayed alongside the grand landmarks are the little details of city life that are so telling: neon signs and storefronts that were common in their time but are even more meaningful in their absence."--BOOK JACKET.

"Kay also brings to life the people who literally created Boston - architects like Charles Bulfinch and H. H. Richardson, landscape designer and master park creator Frederick Law Olmsted, and even such colorful political figures as Mayors John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Mariner book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 332) and index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: The city upon a hill, 1630-1680; title: Geography is destiny, 1680-1730; title: Growth to independence, 1730-1780; title: Federalist foundations, 1780-1800; title: Splendors by the shovelful, 1800-1820; title: Granite in Athens, 1820-1850; title: New land, 1850-1870; title: The city afire, 1870-1880; title: The greening of Boston, 1880-1900; title: Muted hurrahs, 1900-1930; title: Epilogue from a fin-de-siècle city.