Streets
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Agreements and bonds register
Register of agreements and bonds. Lists date, name, street and object.
Board of Street Commissioners notices
Notices of apportionment and revision of assessments for street improvements, street watering and sewerage works and notices of street improvements.
Cablevision plans
This series of plans for the Public Works Department illustrate where underground cable lines where laid in the early 1980s by Cablevision of Boston. Arrangement is by neighborhood and street.
City Council Committee records
City Council orders
City Council orders to the Board of Street Commissioners relative to laying out streets, extending streets and providing estimates.
Commissioner of Public Works correspondence files
Committee on Streets records
Deeds to city property, etc.
Engineering Department correspondence
Five outgoing letter-copy volumes of Engineering Department - Survey Division and Street Laying-Out Department - Engineering Division correspondence. Includes volumes from 1904-1926 and 1932-1941.
Engineering Division plans
Engineering Department and Public Works Department, Highway Division plans for streets, retaining walls, sea walls, edgestones, etc. Includes two sets of plans: OB# plans and OC# plans.
Level books
Includes 3 miscellaneous level books of the Highway Division, Paving Service. One book is labeled L-35
List of Accepted Streets in the City of Boston, 1700-1867 inclusive
The list records all streets which have been formally accepted, 1700-1867 inclusive, based on an examination of the records of the Town and City. Includes name of street with year in which street was recognized by the proper authorities as a public highway.
News clippings
One volume of news clippings of court decisions relating to streets.
Notices of Intention to build, referred to the City Engineer
Notices of Street Improvements
Permit indexes
Includes miscellaneous volumes that appear to be indexes to permits for conduits, drains, etc.
Pole and conduit locations
Record of petitions filed for hearings to construct transmission lines upon, along, under or across a public way, 1903-1919 and record of notices of pole and conduit locations granted, 1911-1983, that were required to be filed in the City Clerk's Office by Chapter 509 of the Acts of 1911.
Public Improvement Commission orders
Orders of the Public Improvement Commission (formerly Board of Street Commissioners) relating to the laying-out, alteration, opening, discontinuance and naming of streets.
Public Improvement Commission proceedings
Unindexed minutes of the Board of Street Commissioners for 1871, 1874, 1876, 1879, 1881, 1883-1884, 1901, 1905-1909 and 1911; and digital copies of Board of Street Commissioners minutes from 1871-1954 April 30 and Public Improvement Commission minutes from 1954 May 7-1986. The volumes for 1899-1900 are missing.
Public Works Department contracts
Specifications and contracts for Public Works Department projects kept by the Public Works Department Bridge and Ferry Division and Contract Office.
Public Works Department photograph collection
Photographs collected by the Public Works Department showing Transit construction and street scenes.
Public Works Department scrapbooks
Scrapbooks kept in the Public Works Department library. Includes scrapbooks of the City Engineer, scrapbooks on the subway, real estate transactions, and miscellaneous topics.
Record of business of Street Commission
Log of business before the Street Commission relating to laying out of streets. Lists street, parties in interest, number of square feet taken, when taken, estimates, amount paid and notes.
Record of grades
Volume kept by the City Surveyor's Office of copies of orders of the Board of Street Commissioners to establish the grades of streets in Dorchester.
Record of private ways approved
Votes of Street Commissioners accepting private ways approved by the Mayor.
Sewer assessment records
Sewer assessment records, circa 1822-1898 with gaps.
Street Department annual reports
Includes copies of Street Department annual reports for 1891, 1893, 1900, 1901, 1903-1906, 1908-1909. Annual reports can also be found in the City Documents series.