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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Boston Common...
By Grant Young
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?
Deer Park
By capecoddah
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:12am
Via Googles
A deer and bison park as written in the 1886 Olmstead plan for Franklin Park.
https://books.google.com
By Rob
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:20am
https://books.google.com/books?id=UqD9heopQjMC&pg=...
Any ideer as to what's going on here
By GollyRose
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:06am
Christmas on the Boston Common
That was definitely a thing!
By Sally
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 3:20pm
But later, right? 1940s-50s?
"That's good water!"
By Rob
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:17am
"That's good water!"
Lawn mowers
By Stevil
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:18am
For the golf course in Franklin Park.
Since it opened in 1912...
By ScottB
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.
Olmsted didn't want a zoo.
By anon
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 12:53pm
Olmsted didn't want a zoo.
That old rhyme
By MostlyHarmless
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 11:27am
Bahstan aahs, they just dissapeah
and wheah they go, we have no idear.
Deer Park on the Boston Common
By Paul McCaffrey
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 11:33am
For many years the Park Dept kept Deer on the Common.
Just browsing
By blues_lead
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.
Stag Party?
By anon
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 2:10pm
Stag Party?
Could be the old
By anon
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 2:21pm
Deer park in Chestnut Hill
At first glance
By Parkwayne
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 2:33pm
No eye deer.
But then when I looked in the background, still no eye deer.
Did you spot
By MostlyHarmless
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 1:38pm
the two blind deer having sex?
Still no fucking eye deer.
The Answer
By Boston City Archives
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
look more like elk
By Rostonian
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:00pm
look more like elk than whitetail
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