BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN 5 



under intelligent care, and that its estab- 

 lishment in the entirety of its present area 

 under the name of the Public Garden 

 was effected in 1859, when Hon. Frederic 

 Walker Lincoln, Jr., was mayor of the 

 city. 



The area of the Public Garden is twenty- 

 four acres. The area of the Common which 

 adjoins it, separated only by a public street, 

 is forty-eight acres. This combined domain 

 has come to be quite within the heart of 

 the city through its expansion westward 

 during the last fifty years. Busy streets 

 surround it on all sides, and substantial 

 office buildings and stores, churches and 

 theatres, hotels, club-houses, and residences 

 line these streets, the State House crowning 

 the highest point of Beacon Street. A mile 

 eastward is the harbor-front. 



For two or three miles westward the 

 Back Bay district stretches to the town 

 of Brookline. This region within the last 

 half-century has been filled in, laid out in 

 streets and avenues, and become largely 

 built up into a new section of the city. Thus 



