Mystic Valley Parkway
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 The Mystic Valley Parkway in Arlington |
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| location | Arlington , Medford , Somerville and Winchester , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 25 '47 " N , 71 ° 7' 49" W | ||
| surface | 22 acres (8.9 ha ) | ||
| Built | 1895 | ||
| architect | Charles Eliot , Olmsted Brothers | ||
| NRHP number | [1] 05001529 | ||
| The NRHP added | January 18, 2006 | ||
The Mystic Valley Parkway is a parkway in the area of the cities of Arlington , Medford , Somerville and Winchester in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . The street is part of Massachusetts Route 16 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The parkway is administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston .
Route
The road runs essentially north to south and runs from the Middlesex Fells Reservation in Winchester through the Aberjona River valley and along the east bank of the Mystic Lakes to Medford. This section therefore follows the old Middlesex Canal . Then the road crosses the Mystic River together with Massachusetts Route 60 . From there the road runs along the bends of the river in an east-west direction through Arlington.
A short stretch runs along the south shore of Lower Mystic Lake , where Route 60 ends at an intersection with US Highway 3 and Massachusetts Route 2A . The Mystic Valley Parkway meets at a roundabout near the mouth of the Alewife Brook in the Mystic River on Alewife Brook Parkway and combines there also with the Massachusetts Route 16 . From there, the route continues downstream along the banks of the Mystic River, crossing it several times and finally ending at the Revere Beach Parkway , where both roads meet Massachusetts Route 28 .
history
The parkway, including the surrounding landscape, was designed by the Olmsted Brothers in 1894 and 1895 for the Metropolitan Park District established in Boston in 1893 , with Charles Eliot playing a leading role. Originally, the street was planned as one of very many sections of a network of paths, the streets of which should be used for recreation and also meet particularly high aesthetic standards.
Today the parkway is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston and was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District on January 18, 2006 .
See also
literature
- Charles Eliot: The Boston Metropolitan Reservations . New England Magazine Co., Boston 1896, OCLC 33482923 .
- William B. de las Casas: The Boston Metropolitan Park System . In: American Academy of Political and Social Science (Ed.): Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . Vol. 35, No. 2 . Sage Publications, Inc., March 1910, ISSN 0002-7162 , OCLC 1479265 , p. 64-70 , JSTOR : 1011253 .
- Charles William Eliot: Charles Eliot, landscape architect . University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 1999, ISBN 978-1-55849-212-7 (first edition: 1902, first publication under the same title in 1902 by Houghton Mifflin).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009.