...describes and illustrates a plan to develop downtown Boston's Long Wharf into a public open space that will serve as one of the entrances to the Boston Harbor Islands State Park, the introduction to Boston for visitors sailing or motoring into the harbor and the focus of a interconnected land and water transportation system; describes the wharf, it's history, implementation of the plan, public access to the waterfront, boating facilities, etc.; also includes an aerial view of the waterfront and a poem by Oliver Wendell Homes done for the Centennial Dinner of the Proprietors of Boston Pier or the Long Wharf, April 16, 1873; copies of this item were in the BRA collection...