The late Walter Muir Whitehill was Director of the Boston Athenæum. Lawrence W. Kennedy is Professor of History at the University of Scranton and author of Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630.
There have been many books written about Boston, but none with more
information so charmingly and accurately written...[There are]
riches packed between the hard covers of this book, excellently
conceived and excellently created.
*Boston Globe*
The third edition to Boston: A Topographical History appears forty
years after Walter Muir Whitehill's original text, brought
up-to-date by Lawrence Kennedy. The underlying theme of the book
remains remarkably important...There is a truly impressive feat
here. Kennedy and Whitehill have documented incredible physical
changes over nearly four hundred years. The book is wonderfully
illustrated...well-researched and accessible. It not only provides
an overarching narrative of the history of the city of Boston, it
shows how cities in general adapt, alter, and preserve their
surroundings.
*H-Net Reviews*
"[Boston: A Topographical History] is a lively history of the city
from its founding up through the mid-1960s, the age of the
so-called New Boston. Whitehill clarifies such mysteries as the
name Tremont, which refers to the three hills--Pemberton, Beacon,
and Mount Vernon--that once stood where the now much-reduced Beacon
Hill remains. With this book, graced with useful old maps and
engravings, you can understand that Canal Street followed the bank
of Mill Creek, Causeway Street was once a causeway across the old
mill pond, and West Hill Place (near Charles Circle) was once a
small hill by the Back Bay.
*Boston Globe Magazine*
Short, living, and admirably illustrated...What we have is a most
learned and entertaining guide to the past and present of
Boston.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Over the years Boston has played an important role in American
history and consequently a topographical history of the city is of
more than local interest...In an informed and witty manner,
[Whitehill] traces the history of Boston by means of the physical
and resultant social changes which have affected the city...[this
history has been] delightfully...told in this attractive book.
*New York Historical Society Quarterly*
A good companion, pleasingly written, informative and entertaining,
and copiously illustrated.
*New England Quarterly*
Whitehill's scholarship is both profound and far-reaching...In
short, this is an admirable contribution to the growing literature
of American urbanism.
*Progressive Architecture*
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