Halloween night in Back Bay Boston Massachusetts. This year we had a great experience with many houses with decorations and plenty of candy, food, and drinks for the whole family.
A special thanks to all the residents in the area for putting smiles to all the kids in the neighborhood of Boston. I know my kids had a great time.
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Back Bay is considered one of the best-preserved examples of 19th-century urban design in the country and is famous for its rows of Victorian brownstones, beautiful gardens, cultural institutions, and first-class shopping and dining. But, it hasn’t always been that way: Back Bay was initially a small saltwater bay, which became a swamp land after Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation constructed a dam across the bay in 1821. The dam prevented the natural tides from flushing sewage out to sea, thus creating serious sanitary and odor problems.

In 1857, the city decided to fill in the Back Bay, a project that took nearly three decades to complete, but added more than 450 acres of land to Boston.

In contrast to the rest of Boston’s Downtown at the time, the streets of the newly built Back Bay were straight, wide, and were set on a grid, designed with both commercial and residential spaces in mind. Long boulevards like Commonwealth Avenue and Boylston Street are intersected by smaller streets, set in alphabetical order starting from the Public Garden with Arlington Street, followed by Berkeley Street, Clarendon Street, etc. (a good trick to know when you’re navigating this lovely neighborhood!)
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