May 1, 2013
Photo: Adine Storer
The Muddy River Restoration Project progresses. Dredging, bridge restoration, habitat improvement, and landscaping work are ongoing throughout Olmsted Park, the Riverway, and Back Bay Fens. At the Justine Mee Liff Park across from the Landmark Center, the focus is on maintaining the newly restored landscape and honoring Olmsted’s original vision for a continuous, meandering Muddy River. At Charlesgate, a new public park is taking shape.
The MMOC oversees this work on behalf of the public and keeps you updated. We welcome your questions and comments.
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The construction areas have been enclosed with fence and barrier to prevent access to active work areas by the public.
We appreciate everyone’s patience during the testing periods.
Fredrick Law Olmsted, SR. What artist, so noble … as he who with far – reaching conception of beuty and designing power, sketches the outlines,
Across the United States, the 1970’s and 1980’s marked a resurgence of interest in Olmsted and his landscapes. Activists in Boston and Brookline realized the unappreciated treasure that Olmsted had bequeathed to his adopted home – the six-mile linear water-park and Parkways now known as The Emerald Necklace.
Historic landscape resources include the grading or shaping of the land itself, plantings (trees, shrubs, turf), pathways, parkways, park “furniture” (benches, fences, etc.), bridges and other structures.
“We want a ground to which people may easily go after their day’s work is done, where they may stroll for an hour, seeing, hearing, and feeling nothing of the bustle and jar of the streets.”
– Frederick Law Olmsted, 1870