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Roxbury (/ ˈ r ɒ k s b ər i /) is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. [1] Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for neighborhood services coordination. The city states that Roxbury serves as the "heart of Black culture in Boston."
Dudley Station Historic District is a historic district on Washington, Warren, and Dudley Streets in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.The central feature of the district is Dudley Square station (now Nubian station), a Beaux Arts/French Renaissance structure designed by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow and built by the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy, a predecessor ...
The Ascension-Caproni Historic District is located in Boston's Lower Roxbury area, extending along the south side of Washington Street between East Lenox Street and Thorndike Street, and along Newcomb and Thorndike Streets. It covers about 5 acres (2.0 ha), and includes architecture diverse by function and style.
Crawford Street is located in southern Roxbury, extending west from Warren Street. Its easternmost block was originally part of the Elm Hill country estate, and was subdivided for development in the 1870s. During this period, Roxbury (annexed to Boston in 1868) experienced rapid growth as a streetcar suburb.
Stylistically, the oldest buildings are Greek Revival in character, with styles extending the full gamut of popular styles of the second half of the 19th century. [2] Roxbury was founded as a separate town in 1630, and was annexed to Boston in 1868. Until the 19th century, it was a predominantly agricultural area.
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Governor Shirley Square is an X-shaped intersection located southeast of Nubian Square (formerly Dudley Square), at the junction of Dunmore and Hampden Streets with Dudley Street, an arterial roadway through Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. Facing this intersection, and arrayed along the southward block of Dudley Street, are six buildings that ...
The Moreland Street Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Kearsarge, Blue Hill Avenues, and Warren, Waverly, and Winthrop Streets in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It encompasses 63 acres (25 ha) of predominantly residential urban streetscape, which was developed between about 1840 and 1920.