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Any ideer as to what's going on here?
By adamg on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 9:50am
The folks at the Boston City Archives ask: "This is a rendering from a 1910 Boston Parks Department report. Do you know what this drawing shows? What was the Parks Dept planning?" See it larger.
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Boston Common...
I think they were planning a Deer Park on the Common. Is the station near Tremont called Deer Park?
Deer Park
Via Googles
A deer and bison park as written in the 1886 Olmstead plan for Franklin Park.
https://books.google.com
https://books.google.com/books?id=UqD9heopQjMC&pg=PT95&lpg=PT95&dq=deer+...
Any ideer as to what's going on here
Christmas on the Boston Common
That was definitely a thing!
But later, right? 1940s-50s?
"That's good water!"
"That's good water!"
Lawn mowers
For the golf course in Franklin Park.
Since it opened in 1912...
My guess is that this was a proposal for one of the exhibits/habitats for the soon-to-open Franklin Park Zoo, which under Olmsted's design was to include naturalistic areas for native critters.
Olmsted didn't want a zoo.
Olmsted didn't want a zoo.
That old rhyme
Bahstan aahs, they just dissapeah
and wheah they go, we have no idear.
Deer Park on the Boston Common
For many years the Park Dept kept Deer on the Common.
Just browsing
Parks used browsing animals like deer to trim the trees up to uniform lines, without having to do it manually.
Stag Party?
Stag Party?
Could be the old
Deer park in Chestnut Hill
At first glance
No eye deer.
But then when I looked in the background, still no eye deer.
Did you spot
the two blind deer having sex?
Still no fucking eye deer.
The Answer
Thanks for playing, folks! This is indeed from the 1910 "Preliminary Plan for the Zoological Garden at Franklin Park," designed by Frederick Olmsted. The Deer Park, the original plan also included areas for elk and bison to graze
look more like elk
look more like elk than whitetail