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TheLamestUsername t1_ja6aulh wrote

https://www.boston.gov/historic-district/aberdeen-architectural-conservation-district

Behold the Aberdeen Historic District!

The neighborhood derived its name from the Aberdeen Land Company, which was founded in 1890. The company’s stock was held by twenty five investors, mostly Boston area financiers, merchants, and manufacturers. It was chartered to operate until 1915, for the express purpose of developing the area residentially. One of its largest stockholders was Henry M. Whitney, the transportation mogul who had developed Beacon Street. Others included G.T.W. Braman, President of the Boston Water Power Company; Noah W. Jordan, President and Chairman of the Board of the American Loan & Trust Company; and Isaac T. Burr, President of the Bank of North America. Two of the largest stockholders, incidentally, were Brighton men, George A. Wilson and Benjamin F. Ricker. As prior owners of land in the area, they probably traded their acreage for Aberdeen Land Company stock.

While there were other land companies that held property in the neighborhood, one being Henry Whitney's own West End Land Company, there seems little question that its present design, its street patterns and place names are a legacy of the Aberdeen Land Company.

The company was named for a Scottish county and many of the streets in Aberdeen likewise bear Anglo-Scottish names: Lanark, Sutherland, Kinross, Orkney, Strathmore, Radnor, Windsor, and Warwick, among others. How are we to account for this nomenclature? The British Empire was at the height of its prestige in the 1890s; also, the works of the immensely popular novelist Sir Walter Scott had given a special aura of romanticism to things Scottish. These Anglo-Scottish shire names carried just the right hint of the prestige and exclusiveness that Aberdeen’s projectors wished to attach to their emergent elite neighborhood.

http://www.bahistory.org/HistoryAberdeenBill.html

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Himekat t1_ja6a6zw wrote

Yup! I’ve also seen Panera and Applebee’s deliveries in the lobby, which are almost equally bad (although not quite literally 50 feet away).

I can only hope that there are good reasons for the McD’s deliveries. Maybe someone sent it to a friend/family member? Or it was somehow cheaper to get it delivered than to purchase it for pickup? I dunno.

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bostonguy2004 t1_ja6a5z9 wrote

Yeah, the whole Greater Boston area is extremely expensive, so not surprised.

Where are you traveling from? You might be able to find something cheaper in Lawrence, or Southeastern New Hampshire.

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pchaderton t1_ja68sz6 wrote

A breakfast sandwich and coffee from a sandwich shop on property, no more than a minute walk away. I had a bad hangover and didn't want to deal with the sun and thought "Yeah this'll be an easy tip for someone". The delivery driver got lost, went to a completely wrong store two towns over, and had to call me to give them directions to the correct store. The order arrived, finally, an hour and a half late. The end result was the delivery driver took and delivered the wrong sandwich, wrong name on the bag and everything, and I didn't even get a coffee.

I later found out the place had their own personal website I could order pickup from, so now I order from that and walk there. Hangover be damned.

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