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Where natural, manmade skylines meet

By adamg on Wed, 05/03/2017 - 2:43pm
The view from Peters Hill in Roslindale

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Meghan Rauber took in the view of downtown and the Back Bay - and lots of trees - from the top of Peters Hill in the Arnold Arboretum yesterday.

Neighborhoods: 
Back Bay
Downtown
Roslindale
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Arnold Arboretum
Peters Hill


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By hux on Wed, 05/03/2017 - 4:16pm.

Such an awesome spot. The whole arboretum really.

Frederick Law Olmsted is a national treasure. Would highly recommend reading the book 'Genius of Place' for those interested in one of the most diversely talented and compassionate people in this country's history.

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By Irma la Douce on Wed, 05/03/2017 - 4:28pm.

A visit to the Frederick Law Olmstead House in Brookline (today would have been a great day to visit) , not only for the beautiful garden spaces but to see how Olmstead converted an old farmhouse into the headquarters for his landscaping firm (not to mention the Olmstead archives).

https://www.nps.gov/frla/index.htm

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By anon on Thu, 05/04/2017 - 1:46pm.

Whatever you think of Olmsted, he had very little to do with the Arboretum. The layout of the roads hardly makes the experience - there are trees in there somewhere.

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By gradontripp on Wed, 05/03/2017 - 4:54pm.

More like "Where manmade, manmade skylines meet". Most of Boston's best bits of nature are far from natural.

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By Ward8Mahatma on Thu, 05/04/2017 - 7:53am.

...just how recent that skyline is. It would be interesting to see a shot from the same or similar perspective, if it exists, from the pre-Pru 60's. I suspect there would be no skyline to speak of.

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By cw in boston on Thu, 05/04/2017 - 8:39am.

the top of Peter's Hill on Monday morning in the misty drizzle. I wanted to see the flowering trees, but, even more, I wanted to look out from the top and not see the skyline. There was a good view of Bussey Hill and the emerging greening of the trees and the grass. And I wasn't distracted by the skyline.

I know it's a manmade landscape in part, but the topography and the 100-year-old + oak trees, give a sense of what it must have looked like years ago. It was worth the trip.

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By Turtlegeuse on Wed, 05/03/2017 - 5:36pm.

If I didn't know this view is easterly, I could almost believe that the Hudson River School is visible in there.

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By bulgingbuick on Thu, 05/04/2017 - 9:11am.

now what?

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