. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. ecially onmade land, and finally, a defective drain-age is not an unusual accompanimentof basement kitchens; and fetid waterevaporating slowly and a tainted atmo-sphere are cogent reasons for not multi-plying such places in compact settlementswhere sun is too much excluded evenwithout them. There is no hope or expectation ofimprovement in the architecture of the public buildings of Jioston till the frownsof outraged taste revolutionize the systemwhich has been both oper
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. ecially onmade land, and finally, a defective drain-age is not an unusual accompanimentof basement kitchens; and fetid waterevaporating slowly and a tainted atmo-sphere are cogent reasons for not multi-plying such places in compact settlementswhere sun is too much excluded evenwithout them. There is no hope or expectation ofimprovement in the architecture of the public buildings of Jioston till the frownsof outraged taste revolutionize the systemwhich has been both operative and dom-inant through its entire history. Let thearchitects exercise their own good judg-ment of what is proper and fitting inrespect to a particular locality and theuses to which a proposed structure is tobe devoted, and let the responsibilityrest on them alone; when that is done,we shall have something to be j)roud ofto transmit to posterity. Till then weshall remain the laughing stock of tiiosewho comment upon our pecularities andKav State characteristics. . Such has been the steady influx of 170 NEW BOSTON. Copyright Boston Photo A. .„ ^COLONNADE ROW IN 1911 It may seem incredible that these changes can ever be effected when one looks at the magnificenceof these beantiful residences fronting the Common on the south strangers, from year to year, the activityof commercial relations and increaseof business in all departments of industry,that there are now many centers for theconcentration of metropolitan street after another which had longbeen in the cjuiet possession of familieshas necessarily been given up to the re-cjuirements of trade. Even localitiesleast suspected of being favorable pointsfor warehouses have become the veryfocus of mercantile energy, and the out-stretching ambition of individuals, to-gether with the actual demands of anaugmenting population, will very soondispossess other estates of their tenantsand give them up for shops, magazinesand
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