DESCRIPTION: Unrecorded plat of lands, ca. 1880, belonging to the Boston Land Company under the name Orient Heights, Section A. Shows the shoreline along the west side of Chelsea Creek.
Includes Summit Avenue, Orient Avenue, Terrace Avenue, Elm Street, Ashley Avenue, Chelsea Avenue, Saratoga Street, Breed Street, and Butler Avenue. Shows the proposed railroad tracks and depot for the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad and the Winthrop Horse Railroad.
Verso with a statement by A.P. Blake, General Manager:
"The within 'Section A' of the Boston Land Company's Property under the general name of ORIENT HEIGHTS, comprises about one-eights of its landed Estate all located in the City of Boston and is one of the most delightful tracts of Land east of the channel of Boston Harbor, and a very large percentage within the limits of this section is available for immediate building, and a great majority of the sites have either a southeastern, southwestern, or southern aspect, from which a charming view of Massachusetts Bay, and looks directly upon the whole Harbor of Boston, and the sites and towns with which it is surrounded, opening up for the first time to the forty-thousand people of East Boston the opportunity for rapid Expansion and assuring to them the building up of suburban surroundings equal, if not surpassing anything that has been done during the last twenty years of vigorous growth in the southerly and westerly direction, from the deep water of Boston Harbor."
Surveyors index collation numbers: "11045 (4261)".
Surveyed by Whitman and Breck Civil Engineers and Surveyors, 16 Water Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Heliotype. A heliotype is a print produced by a “photomechanically produced plate for pictures or type made by exposing a gelatin film under a negative, hardening it with chrome alum, and printing directly from it.” (Source: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/heliotype)
PUBLICATION DATE: 1880
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Chelsea Creek
CONDITION: Good.
 Small repair with old tape to close a small marginal tear at bottom. Separation at bottom centerfold. Edges all around edged with white tape, some overlapping the neatline scrollwork. Two very small holes, untreated.
COLORING: N/A
ENGRAVER: 
SIZE: 25
" x
16 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 53
PRICE: $2400
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