Blake Park: History of a Neighborhood

When:
Sunday, May 22, 2022 2:00p -
3:30p

Where:
Brookline High School
115 Greenough Street
Brookline, MA 02445

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blake-park-history-of-a-neighborhood-registration-292031202187?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Come learn the history of Blake Park.


In 1880, banker Arthur Welland Blake engaged Frederick Law Olmsted to draw plans for the subdivision into roads and lots of the Blake family estate on the lower part of Brookline's Aspinwall Hill. Olmsted's plans were never executed, and the estate remained something of an anomaly; a large tract of open land renowned for its landscaping in the heart of a community rapidly developing as a "streetcar suburb". Join Ken Liss from the Brookline Historical Society to learn how the neighborhood of "Blake Park" finally emerged — despite failed plans, untimely deaths, and financial scandal — four decades after it was first conceived. 

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