Boston Back Bay

"Back Bay Through Time is a fascinating glimpse of one of Boston's most impressive and iconic neighborhoods--the Back Bay of Boston. Created in the mid-nineteenth century through the infilling of the marshland that extended from the Public Garden to the Muddy River, it was a massive development project that created five hundred and fifty acres of buildable land that spurred on residential, ecclesiastical and institutional develpment that came to characterize the architecture of this neighborhood." -- From introduction page 5.