Boston Public Garden (Boston, Massachusetts) | park, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, U.S. National Historic Landmark

USA / Massachusetts / Somerville / Boston, Massachusetts / Charles Street, 4
 park, garden, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, U.S. National Historic Landmark
4 Charles Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 635-4505
www.cityofboston.gov/parks/emerald/Public_Garden.asp

Boston Public Garden was established in 1837 by Boston Brahmin and philanthropist Horace Gray as the first public botanical garden in the United States. Together with the Boston Common, these two parks form the northern terminus of the Emerald Necklace, a long string of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. During the warmer seasons, the four acre pond is usually the home of one or more swans and is always the site of the Swan Boats, a famous Boston tourist attraction. At the parks entrance at Charles and Beacon streets is the Make Way for Ducklings bronzes sculpted by Nancy Schon, a tribute to the 1941 classic children's story by Robert McCloskey.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Garden_(Boston)
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Coordinates:   42°21'14"N   71°4'11"W

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  • Home of the famous Swanboats
  • duplicated item
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