Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., seen over Boston Common

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Tremont Street runs along the western edge of Boston Common, and this view looks across the Common toward the row of buildings that lined it in the early 1900s. The Common, established in 1634, is the oldest public park in the United States, and the street beside it was among the city's most fashionable addresses, home to hotels, theaters and the offices of its growing commercial life. Notice how the open green space and the street-side buildings sit together, a contrast that shaped how Bostonians thought about public land in the rapidly modernizing city of that era.

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