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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1891/00/00 John F Fitzgerald Politician Councilman John Fitzgerald secures funding for a park in Boston's North End neighborhood.
1895/00/00 Charles Eliot Landscape Architect Charles Eliot designs terraces on a steep hillside to provide a park in the North End, a retreat for "the slum people ... unclean beings, children pushing everywhere and swarming in every street and alley".
1897/00/00 Perkins and White Contractors Two granite terraces are built, 1897-1913, by Perkins and White on the north edge of Copp's Hill Burying Ground, connecting Charter Street to North End Park, a bathing beach designed by Charles Eliot.
1919/01/15 Crowds watch as a wave of industrial grade molasses floods the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The tragedy kills 21 and injures dozens.

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Particulars for Copp's Hill Terrace:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Criteria Historic Event
Historic Use Outdoor recreation
Historic Use Park
Sight Category Site



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 90000631
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Eliot,Charles; Perkins and White
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Community Planning and Development, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1875-1899
Significant Year: 1893, 1913
Historic Function: Landscape, Recreation and Culture
Historic Sub-Function: Outdoor recreation, Park
Current Function: Recreation and Culture, Landscape
Current Sub-Function: Park Outdoor recreation

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