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The 23 official neighborhoods in Boston are made up of approximately 84 sub-districts, squares and neighborhoods within each official neighborhood. The Boston Redevelopment Authority defines 16 planning districts (plus the Boston Harbor Islands) and 64 Neighborhood Statistical Areas (with four areas further subdivided).
The name "Harvard Square" can also refer to the entire neighborhood surrounding this intersection for several blocks in each direction, including Brattle Square, a block away, and the nearby Cambridge Common. The Common is a park area with a playground, baseball field, and a number of monuments, several relating to the Revolutionary War.
Pages in category "Chess players from Boston" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The architect Charles Bulfinch was responsible for much of Boston's architectural character at the time, and played a large part in this new development of the West End. Bulfinch spent much of his early career in the 1790s designing mansions, many of them in the West End and other Boston neighborhoods. [4]
The North End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. [1] It is the city's oldest residential community, having been inhabited since it was colonized in the 1630s. It is only 0.36 square miles (0.93 km 2), yet the neighborhood has nearly
Middle-class people moved to the South End, including business owners, two mayors, bankers, and industrialists, but the neighborhood's wealthy status was relatively short-lived. A series of national financial panics such as the Panic of 1884 , combined with new residential housing in Back Bay and Roxbury , fed a steady decline of whites of ...
Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər /) is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km 2) in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, [2] built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin. Construction began in 1859, as the demand for luxury housing exceeded the availability in the city at the time, and the area was fully built by around 1900. [3]