Casey Arborway Tour: Rediscovering the Original Topography of Forst Hills
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA, United StatesJoin the JP Historical Society and local historian Richard Heath for a walking tour of the imagination. Not one square inch remains of the Forest Hills of forty years ago; the Southwest Corridor and the Casey Arborway obliterated all architectural landmarks from that era. And yet the vista and connection that Frederick Law Olmsted once designed and supervised for the parkway between the Arboretum and Franklin Park (most of which was destroyed in 1952 for…
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