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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.
[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.
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
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.
The South Boston Waterfront area is part of the Port of Boston on Boston Harbor. In September 2010, the Seaport Square project was under planning. It was expected to cost $3 billion and replace parking lots between the federal courthouse and convention center with a 6,300,000-square-foot (590,000 m 2 ) mixed-use development.
An area near the top of Telegraph Hill was used as the site of a reservoir to provide water to South Boston in 1849, with water provided from Lake Cochituate in the western suburbs. This reservoir was later filled in and South Boston High School was built on the site in 1901. The rest of the summit of the hill was developed as Thomas Park in ...
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 .
The Town Hill District is a historic district bounded roughly by Rutherford Avenue and Main and Warren Streets in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Town Hill was laid out by Charlestown engineer Thomas Graves in 1629 and was the site of Boston's first settlement. The unique elliptical street plan forms a tightly delineated ...