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Boston and Its Neighborhoods

Books on Boston: A Selection

Architecture

Guidebooks

History

Literature and Fiction Set in Boston

Online Books with "Boston" in Titles or Texts

Photographs

Subject Headings in the Library Catalog


Online full texts of many of the works listed below are indicated by (PG) for Project Gutenberg and (IA) for the Internet Archive).

• Architectural Records in Boston: A Guide to Architectural Research in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity. Nancy Schrock, ed. Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, Inc. Mugar Ref. XNA 735 B7 A72 1983
  
  
• Architecture after Richardson : regionalism before modernism-- Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh. Margaret Henderson Floyd. Chicago : University of Chicago Press in association with the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1994. Mugar NA737.L66 F66 1994.
  
  
• The architecture of Charles Bulfinch. Harold Kirker. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969. Mugar NA737.B8 F69
  
  
• Architecture of H.H. Richardson and his contemporaries in Boston and vicinity : 1972 annual tour, Society of Architectural Historians: tour notes. Robert Bell Rettig. Philadelphia : The Society of Architectural Historians, 1972. Mugar NA735.B7 R4M
  
  
• Architecture, Boston. Boston Society of Architects. Barre, Mass. : Barre Pub., c1976. Mugar NA735.B7 B67 1976.
  
  
• Back Bay : a living portrait. Barbara W. Moore and Gail Weesner. Boston : Centry Hill Press, 1995. Mugar NA735.B7 M66 1995.
  
  
• Boston after Bulfinch; an account of its architecture 1800-1900. Walter Harrington Kilham. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1946. Mugar NA735.B6 F46.
  
  
• Boston Architects and Builders: Compiled from the Boston Directory 1789-1846. Christopher Hall. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Commission for the Preservation of Architectural Records (Mass COPAR).
  Continued by the Directory of Boston Architects, 1846-1970 (Mugar Ref. NA 55 B6 D5 1984). Mugar Ref. XNA 55 B6 B67 1989.
  
  
• Boston: distinguished buildings & sites within the city and its orbit as engraved on wood by Rudolph Ruzicka. Walter Muir Whitehill. Boston: D.R. Godine, c.1975. Mugar NE 1112.R89 W47.
  
  
• Boston : a topographical history. Walter Muir Whitehill. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000. Mugar F73.3 .W57 2000
  
  
• Boston architecture. Donald Freeman.Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press [1971, c1970] Mugar NA735.B6 F70.
  
  
• Boston architecture, 1637-1954; including other communities within easy driving distance. Henry Russell Hitchcock. New York, Reinhold Pub. Corp. [1954]. Mugar NA735.B6 F54.
  
  
• Boston architecture, 1975-1990. Naomi Miller and Keith Morgan. Munich : Prestel ; New York, c1990. Mugar Lib. Reserve NA735.B7 M55 1990.
  
  
• Boston landmarks. M.A. De Wolfe Howe.New York, Hastings House [1946]. Mugar F73.37 .F462.
  
  
• Boston visions : a national design competition. Boston, MA: Boston Society of Architects, c1989. Mugar NA735.B7 B78 1989.
  
  
• Boston's granite architecture, c. 1810-1860. John Morrill Bryan. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 1972. Mugar PhD 1972 br
  
  
• Building early urban America : architectural and social development in Boston's North End, 1826-1850 . Nina Rolnick Meyer. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1986. Mugar PhD 1986 mey
  
  Building Victorian Boston: the architecture of Gridley J. F. Bryant. Roger Reed. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. Mugar Library NA737.B743 R44 2007
  
  
  
• Built in Boston : city and suburb, 1800-1950. Douglass Shand-Tucci. Boston : New York Graphic Society, 1978. Mugar NA735.B7 T8.
  
  
• Built in Boston : city and suburb, 1800-2000. Douglass Shand-Tucci. Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, c1999. Mugar NA735.B7 S53 1999
  
  
• Bulfinch's Boston, 1787-1817. Harold Kirker. New York, Oxford University Press, 1964. Mugar F73.44 .F64
  
  
• Catalogue of Books Relating to Architecture, Construction and Decoration in the Public Library of the City of Boston. 2d ed with an additional section on city planning, 1914. Arranged by subject with author and subjects/places index. Mugar Ref. XZ 5945 F14.
  
  
• The Changing Face of Boston over 350 Years. Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society, 1980. Mugar Ref. XF73.37 .M35 1980.
  
  
• Charles Bulfinch, architect and citizen. Charles Alpheus Place. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1925. Mugar NA737.B8 F25.
  
  
• Establishing a threshold : twelve architectural practices in Boston. Curated by Margaret Reeve and Alex Krieger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, c1985. Mugar NA735.B7 E77 1985.
  
  
• Garden Squares of Boston. Phebe S. Goodman. Hanover, NH: University of New England Press, 2003. Mugar SB466.U65 B6728 2003
  
  
• Houses of Boston's Back Bay: An Architectural History, 1840-1917. Bainbridge Bunting. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967. Mugar Ref. XNA 7238 B6 F67.
  
  
• Large Boston Garden sketchbook. Maurice Brazil Prendergast.New York: G. Brazilier in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. In storage--see Circ ND 1839.P74 A4 1987.
  
  
• The life and letters of Charles Bulfinch, architect, with other family papers, edited by his granddaughter, Ellen Susan Bulfinch. New York, B. Franklin [1973]. Mugar NA737.B8 A3 1973.
  
  
• Lost Boston. Jane Holtz Kay. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1980. Mugar NA735.B7 K39.
  
  
• Mr. Bulfinch's Boston. Raymond W. Stanley, ed. Boston, Old Colony Trust Co., 1963. Mugar NA737.B8 F63.
  
  
• New architecture in Boston. Joan E. Goody. Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press [1965]. Mugar NA735.B7 G6.
  
  
• School Treasures: Architecture of Historic Boston Schools. Doris Cole. Weston, MA: Font & Center Press, 2002. Mugar LB 3218 M4C65 2002.
  
  
  
  Online full texts of many of the works listed below are indicated by (PG) for Project Gutenberg and (IA) for the Internet Archive).
  

• Boston Neighborhoods: a food lover's walking, eating, and shopping guide to ethnic enclaves in and around Boston. Lynda Morgenroth. Mugar Reference X TX907.3.M42 M67 2003.
• Boston Society of Architects' AIA Guide to Boston. 2d ed. Susan Southworth. Topographical, arranged by districts and neighborhoods. Mugar Ref. XNA 735 B7 S69 1992.
  
  
• Boston's French secrets: guided walks that reveal Boston's French heritage.  Rhea Atwood.
  Mugar Ref. XF 73.9 F8 A88 2004.
  
  
• Buildings and Landmarks of Old Boston: A Guide to the Colonial, Provincial, Federal, and Greek Revival Periods, 1630-1850. Howard S. Andros. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c2001. Mugar Ref. XNA735.B7 A53 2001.
  
  
• Buildings and Builders: An Architectural History of Boston University. by Nancy Salzman. Descriptive guide presented in five walking tours. Includes annotated index. Mugar Ref. XLD 514 S34 1985.
  
  
• Built Environment: A Guide to State Government Records of Massachusetts. [Boston, Mass.] : Massachusetts Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, [1993]. Mugar Ref. XCD 3294 B85 1993.
  
  
• The city observed, Boston : a guide to the architecture of the hub. Donlyn Lyndon. New York : Random House, c1982. Mugar NA735.B7 L96 1982.
  
  
• Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston: from Newburyport to Plymouth. Marty Carlock. Rev. ed. Boston: Harvard Common Press. Mugar Ref. XN 884.5 B67 C37 1993.
  
  
• HelloBoston's Old Books about Boston. Book of Boston (1920), Boston the Places and the People (1912), Boston Herald 1846-1878 (1878), Old Paths and Legends (1904) , Old Landmarks of Boston (1875), Days and Ways of Old Boston (1915), King's Hand-Book of Boston (1885), History of East Boston (1858), Historic Towns Boston (1918), Historic Mansions and Highways Around Boston (1899), Memorial History of Boston (Volumes I-IV) (1880), How to See Boston (1895), History of Massachusetts in the Civil War -- Volume II (1871).
  
  
• King's Dictionary of Boston. Edwin M. Bacon. 1883. Cambridge, MA: Moses King.  Mugar Ref. XF 73.5 E83. Covers arts, religion, society, health, buildings, people in entries such as "Ether Monument," commemorating the discovery of anesthetics; "Political Dining-Clubs," peculiar to the city; and "Young's Hotel."
  
  Museums of Boston: a guide for residents and visitors. Nicole Berard. Yardlley, PA: 2007. 
• Mugar Ref. X AM13.B65 B47 2007.
  
  
• Old landmarks and personnages of Boston. Samuel Adams Drake. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Company, 1873. (Making of America)
  
  
• Political places of Boston: from the backrooms to the golden dome: a guide to the stories of 50 sites from the colonial era to the present. Clint Richmond. 2004. Mugar Ref. XF 73.18  .R53 2004.
  
  
• The stranger's new guide through Boston and vicinity. Being a complete handbook, directing visitors where to go, when to go, and how to go through the city and suburbs. Boston: A. Williams& Co., 1869.  (Making of America)
  
  
• Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours. ed. Mary Melvin Petronella for The New England Chapter of the Victorian Society of America.  Mugar Reference X F73.18 .V53 2004.
  
  
• Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land. Nancy C. Seasholes. 2006. MIT Press. 
  Mugar Reference XF73.18 .S43 2006.

• Boston Photographs. Santi Visalli. New York : Rizzoli, 1988. Mugar Ref. XF73.37 .V57 1988.
  
  
• Boston Then and Now. Elizabeth McNulty. San Diego, Calif. : Thunder Bay Press, c1999. Mugar Reserve XF73.37 .M38 1999.
  
  
• Boston then & now : 59 Boston sites photographed in the past and present. Peter Vanderwarker. New York : Dover Publications, c1982. Mugar F73.37 .V36 1982.
  
  
• Cityscapes of Boston : an American city through time. Robert Campbell. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992. Mugar Ref. XNA735.B7 C36 1992.
  
  
• Great Buildings of Boston: A Photographic Guide. George M. Cushing. New York : Dover Publications, 1982. Mugar Ref. XNA 735.B7 C8 1982.
  
  
• Historic Photos of Boston. Timothy Orwig. Nashville: Turner Publishing Company, 2007.  Mugar Ref. X F73.37 .O78 2007
  
  
• Images of America Series. (Dover, N.H. and Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia), various dates:
  

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• Architecture -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Antiquities.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Biography.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Church History
• Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Economic conditions.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Ethnic relations.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Guidebooks.
• Boston (Mass.) -- History.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual Life.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Maps.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Newspapers.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Pictorial Works.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Politics and Government.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Population.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Race Relations.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Social Conditions.
• Boston (Mass.) -- Social Life and Customs.
• Boston Massacre, 1770.
• Boston School of Painting.
• Church Architecture -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• City planning -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Educational equalization--Massachusetts--Boston--History--20th century.
• Harbors -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration --Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Historic preservation -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Music -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Musical theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
• Neighborhood -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Poor -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Poor -- Social networks -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Prisons -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
• Public art--Massachusetts--Boston.
• Public Schools -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• School Integration -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Shipping -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Sports -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
• Streets -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Theatres -- Massachusetts --Boston -- History.

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