Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts

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291 Adams, William Howard, 106 Allen, John, 201 Allen & Collens, 180, 181 American Architect and Building News (periodical), 63, 81 American City Planning Institute, 166 American Institute of Architects (AIA), 69, 71 American Society of Landscape Architects, 116 Ames, Oliver, Free Public Library (North Easton, Massachusetts), 48–49, 49 Ames Gate Lodge (North Easton, Massachusetts), 52, 53 Ames, Oakes, Memorial Hall (North Easton, Massachusetts), 49–50, 50, 51 Ames, Oakes and Oliver, Monument (Sherman, Wyoming), 50, 52, 52 Amory, Thomas Coffin, Jr., 8, 203 Andrews, Robert Day, 85–86; home of, 69, 237; works for Peabody & Stearns, 80, 86; works for Richardson, 69, 80, 86, 87. See also Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul: Brookline High School design, 183; Brookline projects with Olmsted, 85–87, 246; changing relationship with Olmsted firm, 92; in development north of Beacon Street, 156; in Hillfields development, 160 Armstrong, George, 73, 75, 75, 76, 76, 143–44 Arnold, James, 110 Arnold Arboretum (Harvard University): in Boston park system, 37, 110, 111, 114, 263n80; Bussey’s Brook, 113, 134; Dawson collects plants for, 119–21; as field study resource, 135; Godkin in establishment of, 32; Hunnewell’s Index influence on, 108, 112; library, 116; and Muddy River improvement, 125; Olmsted in planning of, 33, 48, 110–11, 111, 220–21; roadways of, 112, 114; Sargent as director of, 27, 32, 61, 95, 110, 116, 118, 135, 203, 220–21; Sargent’s memorial service in, 134; Sargent’s planting program for, 112–16; Wilson collects plants for, 118–19 Art Out-of Doors (Van Rensselaer), 114, 135, 263n1 Aspinwall, Thomas, 150, 277n41 Aspinwall, William, 142, 150, 194 Aspinwall & Lincoln, 15, 77, 150 Aspinwall Hill subdivision, 150–51, 277n44 Aspinwall Land Company, 15, 150, 193 Atkinson, Edward, 142, 275n13 Avery, Philip, 165, 278n76 Bache, Alexander Dallas, 44 Back Bay Fens: in design for Boston parks, 37; in Emerald Necklace, 121, 125; extension of Back Bay residential district to, 124; Muddy River empties into, 53, 121, 122; Olmsted and Richardson collaborate on, 53–54; Olmsted’s 1879 plan for, 33, 34 Bacon, Francis E., 190, 191 Bacon-Poor-Prouty House, 200, 215, 253 Baker, William Henry, 195 Banner, Peter, 177 Barton, Frederick Augustus, 20–21 “Basic Principles of City Planning, The” (Olmsted Jr.), 167 Batchelder house, 83, 83–84 Baxter, Sylvester, 32, 37–38 292 V index Beacon Street: and Aspinwall Hill subdivision, 150; Longwood neighborhood extends to, 139; plan for widening, 140, 140–44, 143; small residential subdivisions north of, 155–56; streetcars on, 73, 138, 143; widening of, 168, 229 Beecher, Catharine, 196–97, 283n57 Bellows, Henry W., 29 Benson, Albert Emerson, 116, 121, 134 Benton, A. W., 142, 275n14 Bernard, Arthur B., 164 Beveridge, Charles, 37, 121 Bigelow & Wadsworth, 206 Biltmore (Asheville, North Carolina), 91, 165, 263n78 Binford, Henry C., 4 Birkenhead Park (England), 24, 24, 25 Blake, George Baty, 150, 151, 183 Board of Municipal Improvements, 166–67 Bolton, Edward D., 61, 147 Boston: Brookline resists annexation by, 5, 7, 16, 104, 138; Brookline’s sense of superiority over, 34; budget for planning in 1917, 230; green space of, 19; incorporation of neighboring towns, 138; Olmsted in development of park system, 19, 260n1; Park Act of 1875, 32, 121; park system, 32–33, 37–38, 53–54; thoroughfares to Brookline open, 96, 124. See also Boston Park Commission; Emerald Necklace Boston Common, 19, 33, 37, 123, 125 Boston Park Commission: Eliot’s work with, 229, 231; establishment of, 33; in Muddy River improvement, 122, 123, 124, 126; Oakes as member of, 206, 211; Olmsted engaged as park adviser, 35, 221; Olmsted-Richardson collaboration for, 53, 54; Peabody becomes chairman of, 85 Boston University, 150 Botanical Gardens (Harvard University), 32, 108–9, 116 boulevards: Beacon Street, 17, 73; Brookline parkways and, 138–46; in Buffalo park system, 45 Bowditch, Arthur H., 237 Bowditch, Ernest W.: in Aspinwall Hill development, 150–51; Cottage Farm mall designed by, 12; development corporations employ, 15; in Fisher Hill development, 154– 55; home of, 237; Hood property landscaping by, 211; partnership with Copeland, 277n43; Peabody & Stearns collaborate with, 80; Scudder buys lot from, 214 Bowditch, William I., 142 Boyd, Frances R., 160 Boylston, Thomas, 200 Boylston-Hyslop House, 216, 275n23 Boylston Street: Channing House near, 55, 216; cross-town thoroughfares from, 167; development plan for, 144–46; as entrance to Back Bay Fens, 53–54; and Fisher Hill subdivision, 151, 153; and Hillfields subdivision, 161, 162; proposals to widen, 168, 173–74, 216; and South Brookline parkways, 147; threedeckers on, 138...