Online Resources and Maps - CityLab Fall 2024 - East Boston - Research Guides at Boston Architectural College

BAC Databases

Fimo Fire Insurance Maps Online
Collection of high resolution, full-color fire insurance maps of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut towns searchable by location. Includes street patterns, lot lines, property uses, and height.
Sources: Fire insurance maps from the Sanborn Map Company and other publishers such as Perris and Bromley, real estate atlases, and other historical maps.
PolicyMap
Downloadable U.S. demographic, economic and social data by city, state, zip code, county, or census tract. Data exists for crime, home sale statistics, mortgage trends, health, education, and labor data.
Sources: Derived from public and proprietary sources that provide more than 10,000 indicators.

Archipedia: East Boston
Entries created by members of the Society of Architectural Historians
East Boston Main Streets
A neighborhood organization dedicated to promoting local businesses in Eastie.
Friends of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway
Website features a map of public art installations and information about ongoing expansion projects along the East Boston Greenway.
Shipyards & Suffragists of East Boston
"The East Boston Branch of the Boston Public Library presented Shipyards & Suffragists of East Boston by presenter Lyle Nyberg, sponsored by the East Boston Historical Society and the Friends of the East Boston Library."
The Trustees: One Waterfront Project
"One Waterfront will contribute to the City’s quality of life by creating and managing significant parks that serve as world-class and welcoming destinations. In addition, One Waterfront seeks to create accessible, climate-resilient open space that serves diverse community needs and brings value to our vulnerable harbor city. The Trustees will draw on over a century of expertise in public open space management to deliver new signature destinations—for all to enjoy."

Mapping Inequality
Mapping Inequality is a digital collaboration between the University of Richmond, Virginia Tech, and Maryland University which provides digitized and downloadable primary source maps created by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation - a dramatic visualization of redlining in the United States.
The Pluralism Project
Harvard University's Pluralism Project provides an interactive, online map of Boston-area religious centers.
BPDA Boston Atlas
"Governmental agencies—such as the United States Geological Survey (USGS), MassGIS, and the City of Boston—create aerial surveys for planning and analysis. In this group, we have combined individual images into metropolitan aerials that date back as far as 1938. The 1952 aerials are especially detailed as they were made by directly scanning the photo negatives."
MA Historical Commission MACRIS (Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System)
Interactive map allows users to explore MA Historical Commission's inventory of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods.