Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...report of the Cambridge Board of Survey on the proposed boulevard from Quincy Square to the Charles River Parkway, to be formed by the widening and extension of DeWolf street, has been filed with the city clerk of Cambridge and will be presented to the Council at tonight's meeting...
...Cambridge Board of Survey has determined its recommendation as to the lines of the proposed boulevard from Quincy Square to the Parkway to be formed by the widening and extension of DeWolf street. The question came before the citizens of Cambridge early in 1902 as the result of a petition, signed by President Eliot, Charles F. Adams and others, asking for "a dignified approach to Harvard College." The Board of Survey held several hearings on the matter, at which both parties to the plan were heard...
...lines of the proposed boulevard as determined by the Board are changed considerably from those asked for in the petition. The present plan calls for an eighty foot street, curving slightly from Quincy Square almost to the Parkway. The city engineer prepared the accepted plan with a view to disturbing as few houses as possible. In this he was remarkably successful, and the lines as now designated should meet with more favor than the former ones, which were drawn through nearly every building on both sides of the street...
...city government decides to construct the boulevard, Quincy Hall and the two adjoining buildings will have to be torn down. The property on the easterly side of the street will be most seriously affected, the St. Paul's Catholic School Association being one of the heaviest losers Westmorley Court will not be disturbed, as there is a slight outward curve in the street at this point...
...cross country run yesterday afternoon started from the Locker Building at 4 o'clock and covered a distance of four and a half miles. The course ran up Mt. Auburn street to the hospital, through Coolidge's farm to Western avenue, and then home by the boulevard, cutting across Soldiers Field to the Locker Building...