Map of-boston

Maps of Boston
An exhibition at 9th
Floor of Boston City Hall
August 31– December 31, 2013
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
City of Boston
Thomas M. Menino, Mayor
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center

Maps of Boston
The purpose of this exhibition is to showcase maps in
our collections that demonstrate the changes to the
City of Boston through history. We are selecting
citywide maps, as well as maps of Roxbury, the South
Boston Waterfront, and the Greenway. These maps
tell the story of the changing cityscape over time.
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
City of Boston
Thomas M. Menino, Mayor

A Plan of Boston and its environs
Date: 1775
Publisher: Dury, Andrew
This map depicts Revolutionary War Boston
and the vicinity. It was the best
contemporaneous map of the military
situation just after the Battle of Bunker
Hill and prior to the British evacuation of
the city.
Source:
Wall 2 1 ready to print

Boston Old and New
Date:1880
Author: Winsor, Justin
Publisher: Heliotype Printing Co.
Noted historian and librarian, Justin Winsor
created this unique map by
superimposing the outline of the original
Shawmut Peninsula onto an 1880 map
of Boston. Though drawn without the
assistance of computers or aerial
photographs, the map remains one of
the most vivid diagrams of the radical
transformation and enlargement of the
Shawmut Peninsula during the 19th
century.
Source:

Boston Old and New
Date: 1776
Boston Environs and Vicinity….Carolyn
With the use of computers, current streets
are overlaid on this historic shoreline
map.
Source:
Boston Redevelopment Authority
Office of Digital Cartography and GIS
Wall 2 3

Map of Boston
Date: 1876
Author: A. Williams & Co.
Publisher: A. Williams & Co.
The neighborhood boundaries of Boston as
depicted in 1876.
Source:

Boston and its Vicinity
Date: 1819
Author: Hales, John Groves
Publisher: Hales, John Groves
The neighborhood boundaries of Boston as
depicted in 1819.
Source:

Map of Boston Vicinity
Date: 1859
Author: Walling, Henry Francis
Publisher: Baker, F. A.
• Walling, a Boston-based engineer and
surveyor, specialized in publishing
landownership maps of individual
towns, cities, and counties in New
England, but particularly Massachusetts.
One example is this extremely detailed
map of Boston and vicinity, showing
town boundaries, property owners,
roads, railroads, and topography.
• Like many of his other maps, it could be
purchased as a folded map stored in a
handsome case, or as a wall hanging
mounted on rollers. His maps varied
greatly in size, some as large as five or
six feet square. Information included in
these maps was obtained from traveling
along existing roads; direction was
determined by the surveyors compass
and distance by the odometer wheel.
Source:

Boston Streets & Neighborhoods
Date: 2011
These neighborhood boundaries of Boston
are for planning purposes only, not the
official neighborhood boundaries for the
City of Boston.
Source:
Wall 2 7

Boston Figure Ground Map
Date: 2012
Source:
Wall 2 8

Boston Streets & Neighborhoods
Date: 2011
Boston streets and transit.
Source:
Wall 2 9

1975 General Land Use Plan
Date: 1975
Originally from the 1960’s General Plan, each
color represents a land use category.
Source:
Wall 2 10

2013 General Land Use Map
Description: Land Use in 2013
Data Source: City of Boston Assessing
Department FY2013
Source:

Illustrative Re-Use Site Plan for the
Regional Core
Description
Source:
Wall 2 12

Map of City of Roxbury
Description
Source:
Wall 3 13

Map showing Roxbury becoming a
part of Boston
Date: 1883
This map represents annexations of Roxbury,
Dorchester and West Roxbury to the
City of Boston.
Source:

Dudley Square Figure Ground Maps:
1899/2011
These two figure-ground maps show the
Ferdinand building(shown in red) in its
context. Upper map is based on Bromley
Atlas of 1899—three years after the
Ferdinand building was built. The urban
fabric was much fine-grained and street
edges were well-defined then. The map
of 2011 shows a much looser urban
fabric with street edges harder to be
identified. One of the reasons for this
difference is that many institutions have
replaced traditional residential uses in
the Dudley Square area.
Source:
Urban Design Department
Wall 4 15a ready to print

Transformation of Ferdinand’s
Building in Dudley Square
Built in 1896, the Ferdinand building sits,
“flanked” by Warren and Washington
Streets in Dudley Square.
Source:
Photo upper right -Google Maps Inc.
Photo lower left-Photographer, Mayor’s
Office

Figure-Ground Maps of the Greenway:
1940/1990/2010
These Figure-Ground Maps of the Greenway
are re-created based on diagram used in
Urban Design Guidelines for the Central
Artery Air Right Parcels by the Boston
Redevelopment Authority Urban Design
Department.
Source:

Greenway
1994
Source: Boston Water & Sewer Commission

Greenway
2001
Source: MassGIS

Greenway
2005
Source: MassGIS

Greenway
2011

Greenway
This is a top view from Boston
Redevelopment Authority’s 3D model
showing projects under construction,
under review and under planning
around the Greenway area.
Source:

View of Boston Harbor 1870 & 2040
Author: Fuchs, F.
Publisher: Weik, John
Date: 1870 (top)
This view of Victorian Boston portrays a
prosperous city undergoing rapid
change. Industries are beginning to
crowd portions of the waterfront.
Clipper ships brought fame to Boston in
the 1850s; the steamship subsequently
decimated New England’s wooden
shipbuilding industry; and the shipping
trade was also declining due to the
arrival of the railroads in the 1830s. This
city was now firmly in the grasp of a new
mode of transportation.
Date: 2040 (bottom)
This rendering of the City using the Boston
Redevelopment Authority’s digital 3-D
model, shows future development of
the City from a similar angle. Boston’s
economy continues to transition,
marked by new development serving
the innovation economy.
Source:

Bird’s Eye View from the North 1870 &
2040
Author: Bachmann, John
Publisher: L. Prang & Co.
Date: 1870 (top)
Date: 2040 (bottom)
This rendering of the City using the Boston
Redevelopment Authority’s digital 3-D
model, shows future development of
the City from a similar angle.
Source:

Boston
Date:
Author: Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel)
Boston's transformation and growth from a
colonial port city originally confined to
the physical limitations of the Shawmut
Peninsula are outlined on this map.
Starting in the 1790s, bridges were built to
connect Boston to the growing urban
settlements of Cambridge, Charlestown,
South Boston and South Bay.
Bostonians began to increase the peninsula's
useable land areas by extending and
filling in between wharves, and
reclaiming the Mill Pond and tidal flats,
along the peninsula's narrow neck.
During the 1830s with the introduction
of railroads into the New England area,
Boston developed a viable
transportation alternative to ocean and
coastal shipping.
The map was engraved by G.W. Boynton,
Boston's leading engraver during the
mid-1800s.
Source:

Plan for the occupation of flats owned
by the Commonwealth in Boston
Harbor
Date: 1868
Author: Massachusetts. Board of Harbor and
Land Commissioners
Publisher: Massachusetts. Board of Harbor
and Land Commissioners
Source:

South Boston
1874
Source: Future Boston
Wall 6 27

South Boston
1930
Source: Future Boston
Wall 6 28

Aerial Photo of South Boston
2010
Source:
Google Maps

Rendering of 3D model for South
Boston
Date: 2013
This is an aerial view from Boston
under review and under planning in the
South Boston Waterfront area.
Source:

South Boston
1994

South Boston
2001
Source: MassGIS

South Boston
2005
Source: MassGIS

South Boston
2011

South Boston
This is a top view from Boston
under review and under planning in the
South Boston Waterfront area.
Source:

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