West End History Today it is one of Boston’s great economic engines and most overlooked residential neighborhoods, but what was the character of the West End when British guns roared from its shores towards Bunker Hill, or as it turned out miles of rope for Boston’s merchantmen? The history of the West End is a| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
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The West End News: Headlines in the Summer of 1926One Summer in the West End, Part TwoYou are here:HomeHistoryTopicArt & LiteratureThe West End News: Headlines… Over the course of four months in the summer of 1926, Lou Coffee and Francis R. Whelton published a newspaper by West Enders for West Enders. These papers gave a| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
William Cooper Nell, the United States' first Black historian, was an intellectual and abolitionist who became an integral part of The Liberator's staff and advocate for Black rights. He was also the first Black person to serve in the federal civil service, and was deeply involved in desegregating Boston schools.| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
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Frances Appleton and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Romance Spanning the West Boston BridgeYou are here:HomeHistoryTopicArt & LiteratureFrances Appleton and Henry Wadsworth… Two modern day bridges, the Longfellow Bridge and the Frances Appleton Footbridge reflect the love story of one of America’s great poets. The journey to Longfellow and Appleton's happy marriage is tied to Longfellow’s| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
The West End played a key role in defining the U.S. jurisprudence surrounding the execution and maintenance of contracts set out in the U.S. Constitution in two major cases: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge & Fletcher v. Peck.| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
Eminent domain is the right of the state to seize the private property of an individual for a public purpose with just compensation. The third and final article in this series explores the Supreme Court decisions that influenced eminent domain policy from the mid twentieth-century to the present. The post Eminent Domain Part 3: Urban Renewal to the Present first appeared on The West End Museum.| The West End Museum
Eminent Domain Part 2: Use in Early AmericaYou are here:HomeHistoryEraOtherEminent Domain Part 2: Use… Eminent domain is the right of the state to seize the private property of an individual for a public purpose with just compensation. This is the second article in a series of three. This article will discuss the use of eminent| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
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The Greatest Political Enemies of the 20th Century: West End's Lomasney Vs. Mayor CurleyYou are here:HomeHistoryEraImmigrant NeighborhoodThe Greatest Political Enemies of… In the early decades of the 20th century, two towering figures dominated Boston's political landscape. Their rivalry was so bitter that it reshaped the very nature of urban Democratic politics. The feud between Martin| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
Jolly Jane Toppan: The MGH Nurse Turned Mass MurdererYou are here:HomeHistoryEraImmigrant NeighborhoodJolly Jane Toppan: The MGH… A medical serial killer in the late 19th and early 20th century, Jane Toppan (1857-1938) admitted to the murders of 31 people and was possibly responsible for many more deaths. Toppan, a child of Irish immigrants and a trained| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
From Canal to Rail: The Birth of the Boston & Lowell RailroadYou are here:HomeHistoryTopicCanalFrom Canal to Rail: The… The Boston and Lowell Railroad, New England’s first passenger train service, built its first Boston depot on Lowell Street in the West End. It would help replace the Middlesex Canal as the primary means to move people| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
Boston, like its West End, is no stranger to marked population changes. Recent studies have predicted further transformations for Boston’s and Massachusetts’ populations that could have meaningful economic and political impacts. Such changes, current and future, are influenced by various interrelated factors: immigration patterns, cost of living, major disruptors, anchor institutions, and global population growth rate.| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
