{"product_id":"jamaica-plain-through-time-anthony-m-sammarco-9781684730056","title":"Jamaica Plain Through Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnown in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the Jamaica End of Roxbury, the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, evolved from agrarian farmland for over 200 years into one of the more dynamic and inclusive neighborhoods of twenty-first century Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamaica Plain became one of the earliest streetcar suburbs of Boston with various forms of transportation linking it to downtown Boston. With horse drawn streetcars, the Boston \u0026amp; Providence Railroad as well as the Boston Elevated Railway, by the turn of the twentieth century, the ease of transportation allowed a thriving nexus of cultures to move to a community that not only saw tremendous residential and commercial development, especially with the numerous breweries along the Stony Brook, but also greenspace and open lands that were laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead as a part of the Emerald Necklace of Boston. Its bucolic setting led to Jamaica Plain being called \u003ci\u003eThe Eden of America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the twentieth century, Jamaica Plain was also to become the location of numerous hospitals and institutions that provided care for Bostonians. The Faulkner, Washington, Shattuck, Vincent Memorial, Massachusetts Osteopathic and the Veterans Administration Hospitals; the New England Home for Little Wanderers and the Trinity Church Home; the Boston School of Physical Education, the Eliot School, the Perkins School for the Blind and the Nursery for Blind Babies; the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Children's Museum all contributed to Jamaica Plain's pride of place in Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this photographic history of Jamaica Plain, Anthony M. Sammarco, with contemporary photographs by Peter B. Kingman, has created a fascinating book that chronicles the neighborhood from the late nineteenth century through to the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony M. Sammarco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684730058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684730056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e America Through Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.60w x 0.20d","brand":"Anthony M. Sammarco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993488982271,"sku":"9781684730056","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f8e6e7a-718f-4ef0-983e-9b39cfa7450d.jpg?v=1683324618","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jamaica-plain-through-time-anthony-m-sammarco-9781684730056","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}