[Rarebooks] F/S Olmstead Map Middlesex Fells 1895

[Garry R Austin]

We offer for your consideration net to all and postpaid @ $95.00 the 
following;
From
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438

Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, Landscape Architects. Map Of Middlesex Fells 
Reservation, Metropolitan Parks Commission, Commonwealth Of 
Massachusetts. Boston: Heliotrope Printing Company, 1895. A linen backed 
color map that measures 13.5"x 15". Map has been folded else very good.

The Middlesex Fells is a forest of 3,400 acres just north of Boston, 
three-quarters of which is under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts 
Department of Conservation and Recreation. It is one of four 
reservations that comprised the original Metropolitan Park System (MPS), 
the others being Beaver Brook, Stony Brook, and the Blue Hills. At 
almost eleven square miles, the MPS is one of the largest urban forest 
reservation systems in the world, only slightly smaller than the largest 
one in Rio de Janeiro. The reservations were set aside beginning in 
1894, after a long and determined conservation effort by many prominent 
area residents. This noteworthy group included Elizur Wright, who 
reformed the life insurance business, fern expert George Davenport, 
naturalist Wilson Flagg, journalist Sylvester Baxter, and renowned 
landscape architects Frederick Olmsted and Charles Eliot. They were 
aided in this effort by the Appalachian Mountain Club and the newly 
formed Trustees of Public Reservations. Their conviction that urban 
people needed a nearby reprieve from the city helped bring about this 
first-of-its-kind wild urban forest park system.
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