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Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [ 1 ] There are 91 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the city, including 1 National Historic Landmark .
South Boston (colloquially Southie) is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. It has undergone several demographic transformations since being annexed to the city of Boston in 1804.
Forest Park – features Frederick Law Olmsted's renowned 735 acres (2.97 km 2) Forest Park and the Forest Park Heights Historic District (established 1975). [13] Residential in character, featuring a commercial district at "The X" and an upper-class garden district surrounding Olmsted's park.
[citation needed] Brighton (including Allston), Charlestown, Dorchester (including South Boston, Mid Dorchester, Mattapan and Hyde Park), Roxbury (including West Roxbury, Roslindale and Jamaica Plain), have all at some point been municipalities independent from downtown Boston, providing a source of well-defined boundaries for the largest areas.
Just outside the park proper, the Boston Waterworks with its three gatehouses at water’s edge and three majestic pump houses on Beacon Street is considered a masterpiece of 19th century engineering and landscape design. The Heartbreak Hill Park, surrounding the Waban Hill reservoir, opened in 2015, and a major renovation was completed in 2020 ...
Beacon Hill was one of the staunchest centers of the anti-slavery movement in the Antebellum era. [30] One of the earliest black Republican legislators [31] in the United States was Julius Caesar Chappelle (1852–1904), who served as a legislator in Boston from 1883 to 1886 and whose district included the Beacon Hill area. Chappelle was a ...
Elm Hill Park Historic District: Elm Hill Park Historic District: February 1, 2021 : 2-38 Elm Hill Park, 538-570 Warren St. Roxbury: 70: Esmond Street Historic District: Esmond Street Historic District: November 5, 2018
Chestnut Hill Reservation The reserve is part of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places , and is a City of Boston Landmark. It is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation .