Bulfinch, Charles. Street Plan for the South End (first).

(March) The plan for what is at the time called the “New South End” is presented to the Selectmen by their chairman, Bulfinch. It calls for creating large-block, English-style residential streets with detached Federal-style houses surrounding small parks. It also calls for a broadened Washington Street bisected by a large “circular place” park named Columbia Square that is located at today’s Blackstone Park and Franklin Square. The plan is never implemented, however, according to an announcement at town meeting on May 16, 1811 that “there is at present no demand.” A new plan (second) is proposed in 1828.* is adopted in 1849.*