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Monadnock Road is located on the west side of Chestnut Hill, beginning at its southern end on Beacon Street, just west of the Boston College campus, and winding roughly northwest to an endpoint at Hobart Road, just south of Commonwealth Avenue. Commonwealth Avenue was completed in 1895, opening an area composed of large estates to development.
Newton Corner: 70: House at 1008 Beacon Street: House at 1008 Beacon Street: September 4, 1986 : 1008 Beacon St. Newton Centre: 71: House at 102 Staniford Street: House at 102 Staniford Street: September 4, 1986 : 102 Staniford St.
Beacon Street is a major east-west street in Boston, Massachusetts, and its western suburbs of Brookline and Newton. It passes through many of Boston's central and western neighborhoods, including Beacon Hill , Back Bay , Fenway–Kenmore , the Boston University campus, Brighton , and Chestnut Hill .
It was modeled to some degree on that road and Beacon Street in Brookline, as a wide right of way with space for a street car line. (The Commonwealth Avenue Street Railway connected with the Boston Elevated Railway streetcars near the Newton-Boston boundary at Boston College). It differs from those roads, in that the terrain is much hillier ...
Waban station on a 1907 postcard. Waban formerly boasted an H.H. Richardson-designed train station, like those still standing in Newton Highlands and Newton Centre.The original station was completed in August 1886 as part of the Boston and Albany Railroad's Highland branch and was one of the last stations designed by Richardson before his death in April 1886.
The Deacon John Staples House (also known as the Staples-Crafts-Wiswall Farm) is a historic house at 1615 Beacon Street in the village of Waban in Newton, Massachusetts.. The first house on the site was built in 1688 by Deacon John Staples, a weaver and Newton's first schoolmaster.
Oak Hill — the southernmost Village, bisected by Dedham Street; Thompsonville — centered on the intersection of Boylston Street and Langley Road; Waban — centered on the intersection of Beacon Street and Woodward Street; West Newton — centered on the intersections of Chestnut Street, Waltham Street, Watertown Street and Washington Street
Boston Edison Power Station, 374 Homer St. Colby Hall, 141 Herrick Rd; part of the Andover Newton Theological School. First Baptist Church in Newton, 848 Beacon St. Newton Centre Branch Library, 1924 Centre St. Newton City Hall and War Memorial, 1000 Commonwealth Ave. The city hall is still here today. Weeks Junior High School, 7 Hereward Rd.