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Soldiers Field Road is a major crosstown parkway in Boston, Massachusetts, running west to east from U.S. Route 20 in the northwest corner of Brighton to the Boston University Bridge. [1] It follows the course of the Charles River and also passes by the campuses of Harvard University and Boston University. The road is named for the area south ...
It includes houses on both sides of the street, numbered from 335 to 344 inclusive, an area that marks the summit of Dana Hill. Harvard Street was laid out as a direct route from "Old Cambridge" (now Harvard Square) to Boston in the early 1800s, and was run over Dana Hill over the objection of Judge Francis Dana, whose estate sat on top of the ...
Massachusetts Avenue (colloquially referred to as Mass Ave) is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts, and several cities and towns northwest of Boston.According to Boston magazine, "Its 16 miles of blacktop run from gritty industrial zones to verdant suburbia, homeless encampments, passing gentrified brownstones, college campuses and bustling commercial strips."
Route 3A north (Herring Pond Road) – Cedarville, Manomet: Southern terminus of Route 3A: 7.1: 11.4: 3: 7: Clark Road / Beaver Dam Road – Pine Hills: 12.3: 19.8: 4: 12: Plimoth Patuxet Highway east – Manomet: Southbound left exit and northbound entrance: 12.7: 20.4: 5: 13: Long Pond Road / South Street – Plymouth Center: Access to Beth ...
Detail of 1814 map of Boston, showing Ann St. and vicinity North Street, looking up from North Square, ca.1894 Ann Street was the main thoroughfare through the neighborhood. It ran from Faneuil Market , spanned an old drawbridge, and led into the rest of the Boston's North End, terminating at the wharves.
The North Shore has no fixed definition as a region. It may include only those communities between Boston and Cape Ann, as defined by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (whose purview does not go beyond Greater Boston); [1] or the larger part of Essex County, including parts of the Merrimack Valley, as defined by the North Shore Chamber of Commerce. [2]
Detail of 1899 map of Boston, showing Atlantic Ave. and vicinity From 1868 to 1874, [1] the section north of Broad Street was built, taking it into Commercial Street, with which it formed a waterfront route around the North End , and the portion of Broad Street south of the new road was renamed Atlantic Avenue.
A new library opened nearby at 1230 Federal Street. Charles Taze Russell organized what are now known as Jehovah's Witnesses at a house in the old city of Allegheny. Mary Cassatt was born on Rebecca Street in 1844. Today, Rebecca Street has become Reedsdale Street (in the North Shore neighborhood).