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Any ideer as to what's going on here?

By adamg on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 9:50am
Deer park in old Boston

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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Comments

By Grant Young on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:04am.

I think they were planning a Deer Park on the Common. Is the station near Tremont called Deer Park?

By capecoddah on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:12am.

Via Googles

A deer and bison park as written in the 1886 Olmstead plan for Franklin Park.

By Rob on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:20am.

https://books.google.com/books?id=UqD9heopQjMC&pg=PT95&lpg=PT95&dq=deer+...

By GollyRose on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:06am.

Christmas on the Boston Common

By Sally on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 3:20pm.

But later, right? 1940s-50s?

By Rob on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:17am.

"That's good water!"

By Stevil on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:18am.

For the golf course in Franklin Park.

By ScottB on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:44am.

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.

By anon on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 12:53pm.

Olmsted didn't want a zoo.

By MostlyHarmless on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 11:27am.

Bahstan aahs, they just dissapeah
and wheah they go, we have no idear.

By Paul McCaffrey on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 11:33am.

For many years the Park Dept kept Deer on the Common.

By blues_lead on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 12:09pm.

Parks used browsing animals like deer to trim the trees up to uniform lines, without having to do it manually.

By anon on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 2:10pm.

Stag Party?

By anon on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 2:21pm.

Deer park in Chestnut Hill

By Parkwayne on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 2:33pm.

No eye deer.

But then when I looked in the background, still no eye deer.

By MostlyHarmless on Fri, 03/02/2018 - 1:38pm.

the two blind deer having sex?

Still no fucking eye deer.

By Boston City Archives on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 4:05pm.

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

By Rostonian on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:00pm.

look more like elk than whitetail