Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3
Paper 4
View the site boundaries.
View an aerial photograph of the site.
Paper 4 – Artifacts, Layers, Traces, and Trends
Introduction
There was a time when streets only needed to be wide enough to fit a walking horse and its rider. French flats were once the most popular places to live in the city. The First Church of Christ Scientist once consisted of a single building on a street corner. Without the ability to go back in time, how would one confirm that any of this was true? Artifacts, layers, traces, and trends provide such clues, confirming what we can conjecture from studying maps and history books. In this paper, I will discuss some of the artifacts and traces I discovered on the area of my site, and how they connect with observations I made in paper 2 on past maps of the area. First, I will look at changing street patterns, and how the purpose of certain streets changed (or stayed the same) over time. Then, I will discuss the patterns of residential and commercial development, and how the look of some communities remained more stable than others. Lastly, I will look at institutional sites and how they reflect on the local culture of the site.