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Beacon Hill: Books

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Beacon Hill
Call Number: Vertical File - Boston - Beacon Hill

Includes Beacon Hill data profile, newspaper articles, and historic buildings information.
Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill by Beacon Hill Garden Club
Call Number: CL.STACK SB466.U65 B673 1959
The Beacon Hill Subway Tunnel in Boston by Wilbur W. Davis
Call Number: CL.STACK TF847.B7 D38 1912

Main Stacks

Beacon Hill by Moying Li-Marcus
Call Number: F73.68.B4 A89 2002
Beacon Hill by Barbara W. Moore; Gail Weesner; Peter Vanderwarker (Photographer)
Call Number: NA 735 .B7 M66 1992
Beacon Hill by Cynthia Chalmers Bartlett
Call Number: F 73.68 .B4 B37 1996
Beacon Hill Architectural Handbook: Guidelines for Preservation & Modification
Call Number: F73.68.B4 B43 1975
Boston Bronze & Stone Speak to Us by Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.
Call Number: NB235.B6 G35 2011

A book documenting historical monuments throughout Boston, including in Beacon Hill's Louisburg Square.
The Domestic Architecture of Beacon Hill, 1800-1850 by Carl J. Weinhardt
Call Number: NA735.B7 W44 1973

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Bostonian Society annual meeting, 1958.
Livable Communities for Aging Populations by M. Scott Ball
Call Number: HQ1063 .B34 2012

ISBN: 9780470641927

Includes Beacon Hill case study of aging and town centers in Part IV.
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification by Dennis E. Gale
Call Number: E-book

Includes chapter on "embryonic gentrification in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, 1915-1945"
The Prudential Towers and Charles River Park Apartments: The Effect of High Rise on Boston's Population by Boston Redevelopment Authority
Call Number: NA7860 .B6 1970

A study of income, age and rents of dwellers in these apartments; also data on attitudes toward the buildings in Boston's Back Bay-Beacon Hill area.
Upper Beacon Hill by Rhea Hollis Atwood
Call Number: F73.68.B4 A89 2002

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