Back Bay Fens

Year

1879

Landscape architect

Frederick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted

Type

landscape

Olmsted's solution to a sanitary crisis (the tidal mudflats of the Back Bay produced unbearable stench) was to create a naturalistic salt marsh park that doubled as a stormwater management system. The Fens channeled the Muddy River through …

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