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

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Via Googles

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

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Christmas on the Boston Common

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But later, right? 1940s-50s?

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"That's good water!"

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For the golf course in Franklin Park.

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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.

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Olmsted didn't want a zoo.

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

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

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

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Stag Party?

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Deer park in Chestnut Hill

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No eye deer.

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

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the two blind deer having sex?

Still no fucking eye deer.

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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

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look more like elk than whitetail

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