Holy Cross students enrolled in the fall 2022 course Making the Modern City visit the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, where they got the opportunity to see the historical parcels of land they studied in today’s landscape.
Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is a bustling 17-acre public park and green space, home to food trucks, fountains and even a carousel. But during the second half of the 20th century, that same space hosted one of the most congested elevated highways in the U.S. — the Central Artery. A century prior to that, the area was home to a candy factory, fruit markets and grocers, a Black barbershop, and more.