Walter Muir Whitehill
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Walter Muir Whitehill (September 28, 1905 – March 5, 1978) was an American writer, historian, medievalist, preservationist, and the Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum from 1946 to 1973.He was also editor for publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts from 1946 to 1978. From 1951 to 1972, Whitehill was a professor at Harvard University. -Wikipedia
Books
Boston
"This book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence W. Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline. Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping human the features of a beloved city."--BOOK JACKET.
Recycling Quincy market, Boston
...a copy of an article appearing in the March 1977 issue of EKISTICS 256 adapted from the author's speech at the opening of the newly restored Quincy Market in downtown Boston's Faneuil Hall / Waterfront Urban Renewal Area; gives historic background of the Market; this item was in the BRA collection...
Boston and the Civil War
"...Delivered as a lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts on 20 February 1962....".