Embodying a unique partnership between Harvard University and the City of Boston, the Arnold Arboretum is committed to helping both entities build resiliency in the face of climate change and reach carbon neutrality by the year 2050. Projects toward this goal over the past decade have included modernizing upgrades at the Hunnewell Building and Dana […]
When our founding director Charles Sprague Sargent assumed leadership of the organization in 1873, the Arnold Arboretum as we know it today [pdf] was unformed. Benjamin Bussey’s mansion and outbuildings still stood on the grounds but there were no formal roads to draw the public into the landscape. Sargent set about immediately planning the new […]
Bussey Brook, fall, road construction, 1892 Alternate Title: Construction of the road near the intersection of Hemlock Hill Road and Bussey Brook with wagon and team and workers in the foreground Photograph by Boston Parks Commission, Boston, MA, United States Bussey Brook at Hemlock Hill Road, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States October 14, […]
Two of four goats leased by the Arnold Arboretum for weed and invasive plant control in its Peters Hill landscape were attacked by an off-leash dog that jumped over their electrified enclosure Wednesday afternoon. The goats survived the attack but sustained injuries, and have been removed from the Arboretum for veterinary treatment. The dog was […]
Roads, fall, Bussey Hill Road, construction, 1890 Alternate Title: Ground prepared and marked for the construction of Bussey Hill Road Photograph by Boston Parks Commission, Boston, MA, United States Bussey Hill Road, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States October 1890 A larger version of this image is available in Harvard University’s HOLLIS+ catalog. The […]
Mounted Boston Park Rangers in front of Hunnewell Building Photograph by Corliss Knapp Engle (1936-2009), United States Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 1984 The late 1970s and early 1980s saw and upswing in violence and vandalism in Boston, which led to a subsequent drop-off in visitation to city parks. Responding to the growing […]
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