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Boston ( US: / ˈbɔːstən / [9] ), officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km 2) [10] and a population of ...
73001948 [1] Added to NRHP. August 14, 1973. 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]
The City of Boston's Office of Neighborhood Services has designated 23 Neighborhoods in the city: Allston. Back Bay. Bay Village. Beacon Hill. Brighton. Charlestown. Chinatown – Leather District. Dorchester (divided for planning purposes into Mid-Dorchester and Dorchester)
The South End is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States which is bordered by Back Bay, Chinatown, and Roxbury. It is distinguished from other neighborhoods by its Victorian-style houses and the parks in and around the area. The South End is the largest intact Victorian row-house district in the country, covering over 300 acres ...
Area code. 617 / 857. The West End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bounded generally by Cambridge Street to the south, the Charles River to the west and northwest, North Washington Street on the north and northeast, and New Sudbury Street on the east. [1] Beacon Hill is to the south, North Point is across the Charles ...
Chester Square (Boston) Coordinates: 42°20′17.78″N 71°4′45″W. Chester Square is a residential garden square located along Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, between Tremont Street and Shawmut Avenue. The name "Chester" is derived from the original name of the street, which was renamed Massachusetts Avenue on March 1, 1894. [1]
Boylston Street in 1911. Boylston Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and its western suburbs.The street begins in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood, forms the southern border of the Boston Public Garden and Boston Common, runs through Back Bay and Boston's Fenway neighborhood, merges into Brookline Ave and then Washington Street, emerging again ...
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas.