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Jamaica Plain Historical Society records, 1855–2015, University Archives and Special Collections, Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts Boston 42°18′27″N 71°06′47″W / 42.30750°N 71.11306°W / 42.30750; -71
August 3, 1990. The Bowditch School is an historic school building at 80–82 Green Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The three-story brick-and-granite Classical Revival building was designed by Harrison Henry Atwood, a prominent local architect, and was built in 1892. Its main facade has a projecting three-part ...
October 22, 1987. The Sumner Hill Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area of high-quality late 19th-century residences in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is roughly bounded by Seaverns Avenue, Everett Street, Carolina Avenue, and Newbern Street just east of the neighborhoods commercial Centre ...
Forest Hills is a part of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Forest Hills is characterized by hilly terrain and wooded areas within and adjacent to its borders. In general, the area slopes upward from Hyde Park Ave and downward from Walk Hill Street. Forest Hills is primarily residential, although a number ...
Monument Square Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of Monument Square in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The 43 acres (17 ha) district is bounded on the northwest by Pond Street, the northeast by Myrtle and Pond Streets, the southeast by Centre Street (excluding the commercial properties on Centre Street itself), and Holbrook and ...
There are more than 350 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Suffolk County, including 58 National Historic Landmarks. The southern part of the city of Boston is the location of 184 of these properties and districts, including 13 National Historic Landmarks. Two historic districts overlap into both northern and southern ...
NRHP reference No. 72000544 [1] Added to NRHP. April 26, 1972. The Loring–Greenough House is the last surviving 18th century residence in Sumner Hill, a historic section of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston. It is located at 12 South Street on Monument Square at the edge of Sumner Hill. It is situated on the border of two ...
From 1945, it published the Jamaican Historical Review, [3] and from 1952 it published a Bulletin. [4] Initially, the society's publications were funded by the British Council. [5] In the years before the University College of the West Indies in 1948, the society was dominated by the local and expatriate middle class of Jamaica.