The first man to envision a Grand Plan for Boston's Back Bay was a Scotsman who claimed to have gone without sleep for five years and eight months -- with the exception of two hours, when he presumably got a bit of a catnap. His other plans included sheep grazing on the Common and constructing a six-story pagoda with a telescope on top.
who claimed to have gone without sleep for five years and eight months -- with the exception of two hours, when he presumably got a bit of a catnap. His other plans included sheep grazing on the Common and constructing a six-story pagoda with a telescope on top.
They were considered a little too grandiose, and it didn't help that he repeatedly proclaimed their perfection. But they were some of the first grand re-envisionings of the city.
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. . . Were any of his designs implemented?
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Maybe, but I am weirdly disappointed that I do not live in a town with a six-story pagoda observatory.
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