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unusual facts about City Beautiful



Badger's Island

The section of Route 1 across the Badger's Island Bridge to Kittery's John Paul Jones Memorial Park, with its Sailors' and Soldiers' Monument by Bashka Paeff, was a City Beautiful plan to complement the Memorial Bridge.

Edward Gardner Lewis

His planning ideas were heavily influenced by both the City Beautiful movement and, to a lesser extent, Ebenezer Howard's Garden City designs.


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Raymond F. Almirall

In Manhattan, he is best known for his Emigrant Savings Bank building, now offices, and the Boss Tweed Courthouse, both magnificent examples of Beaux-Arts, City Beautiful architecture.

Schenley Farms Historic District

In 1905, Franklin Nicola put forth a development plan in the City Beautiful style for Oakland, which included civic, social, residential, and educational zones along Bigelow Boulevard which ran through the heart of the neighborhood.