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The North Shore: A Social History of Summers Among the Noteworthy, Fashionable, Rich, Eccentric, and Ordinary on Boston's Gold Coast, 1823-1929
The North Shore A Social History of Summers Among the Noteworthy Fashionable Rich Eccentric and Ordinary on Boston's Gold Coast 18231929
Author: Joseph E. Garland
In the nineteenth century, prominent Bostonians like Thomas Handasyd Perkins and Charles Greely Loring discovered the shore north of Boston as a summer escape from the heat and stink of the city. From the 1820s until the Great Crash of 1929, they and their social brethren built cottages and castles from Nahant to Ipswich, amusing themselves with...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781889833040
ISBN-10: 1889833045
Publication Date: 5/1998
Pages: 408
Edition: Revised
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Publisher: Commonwealth Editions
Book Type: Hardcover
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