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West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Roslindale and Jamaica Plain to the northeast, the village of Chestnut Hill and the town of Brookline to the north, the city of Newton to the northwest, the towns of Dedham and Needham to the southwest, and Hyde Park to the southeast.
The Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries are a group of 42 Jewish cemeteries [1] in use since the 1920s on Baker Street in the West Roxbury section of Boston.The cemeteries are located on land that once formed part of Brook Farm, a 19th-century communal-living experiment.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway (referred to locally as the VFW Parkway) is a historic parkway in Boston, Massachusetts.The southern terminus of the parkway is at Washington Street at the Dedham-West Roxbury border, from where it travels north and then east, ending at a junction with Centre Street, near the Arnold Arboretum.
Roslindale has its own branch of the Boston Public Library, the neighborhood is covered by Boston Police District E-5 in West Roxbury, Boston EMS Ambulance 17 is stationed in Roslindale, and the Boston Fire Department has a station on Canterbury Street which houses Ladder 16, Engine 53 & District Chief 12. Roslindale's original Engine Company ...
Holy Name Church in West Roxbury is a Roman Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Boston.. Among the largest and most distinguished buildings in the western section of Boston, the imposing Romanesque Revival church dominates the rotary where it is located and provides an interesting contrast to the Gothic St. Theresa Roman Catholic Church, a mile down Centre Street.
Bellevue Hill is a neighborhood in West Roxbury comprising the areas roughly between Lagrange Street, Centre Street, and the West Roxbury Parkway.Defined by its leafy streets and stately homes, Bellevue Hill is one of the most upscale neighborhoods outside of Boston's downtown core.
John Joseph Douglass (1873–1939), Massachusetts State Representative (1899, 1900, 1906, and 1913), member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1925–35) Arthur Fiedler (1894–1979), American conductor known for his association with both the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras
The Westerly Burial Ground (also known as Westerly Burying Ground) [2] is an historic cemetery on Centre Street in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1683, it is Boston's seventh-oldest cemetery, and where the first settlers of the West Roxbury area are buried.