Though the Boston Public Garden sits right next to Boston Common, the two are quite different. The public garden is newer (established in 1837) and holds the distinction of being America's first ...

Historic fountains within the Boston Public Garden are back in working order, upgrades to the surrounding area are complete and the group behind the project plans to celebrate the milestone on ...

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After a year of construction, the main entrance of the Boston Public Garden on Arlington Street is again open to the public. The Friends of the Public Garden held a ribbon cutting ceremony on ...

The Arlington Street entrance to the Boston Public Garden, closed a year ago as part of the Child Fountain Restoration Project to make the garden more accessible and welcoming, will reopen with a ...

Washington Gardens (1814 – ca.1829) was a place of public entertainment and refreshment in early 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Also known as Vauxhall, it specialized in fireworks, circuses, ...

Since 1970, the Friends of the Public Garden (the Friends) has worked with the City of Boston to preserve, protect and enhance Boston's first public parks: the Boston Common, the Public Garden and the ...

The Victorian period also saw a profusion of public gardens and green spaces aimed at bringing culture to the masses. Some of the finest Victorian gardens are public parks, like People's Park in ...

On March 1, 1917, Robert Lowell was born into one of Boston’s oldest and most prominent families. He attended Harvard College for two years before transferring to Kenyon College, where he studied ...

“I trust your Garden was willing to die ... I do not think that mine was—it perished with beautiful reluctance, like an evening star—" —Emily Dickinson, in a letter to her Aunt Katie Sweetser, 1880 ...