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 .
12-593: The Beacon Street Historic District is a historic district running most of the length of Beacon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts , roughly from Saint Mary's Road, near Kenmore Square , to Ayr Road near Cleveland Circle . It includes a small number of properties on adjacent streets, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Beacon Street in Brookline was built in 1850-51 as an extension of
24-522: A National Register of Historic Places listing in Norfolk County , Massachusetts is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Beacon Street It is not to be confused with the Beacon Street in nearby Somerville or others elsewhere. Beacon Street begins as a one-way street from the intersection of Tremont Street and School Street . From this point, it rises up Beacon Hill for
36-596: A block where it meets Park Street in front of the Massachusetts State House . From that intersection it descends Beacon Hill as a two-lane, bi-directional street in the Back Bay until it reaches Charles Street at a point dividing Boston Common from the Boston Public Garden . At Charles Street, it becomes a one-way avenue that runs through the Back Bay neighborhood until it reaches Kenmore Square , or
48-509: A streetcar line running down the middle, and began purchasing land. He retained Frederick Law Olmsted and John Charles Olmsted , noted landscape designers who were also Brookline residents, to design the boulevard. When the streetcar line (now the MBTA Green Line "C" branch) went into service in December 1888, it was the second non-experimental electric streecar service in the nation, after
60-642: The Union Passenger Railway of Richmond, Virginia . Most of Beacon Street is lined with multi-story residential housing, and is still roughly in the form envisioned by Whitney and the Olmsteds. Clusters of commercial development have supplanted some of the housing in the Coolidge Corner , Washington Square , and Cleveland Circle areas, but the roughly 2-mile (3.2 km) stretch of road largely retains its residential character. This article about
72-516: The MBTA Green Line "D" branch is located on Union Street. The Crystal Lake and Pleasant Street Historic District is roughly bounded by the Sudbury Aqueduct, Pleasant Avenue, Lake Avenue, and Crystal Street and Webster Court. This area and its surrounding neighborhoods exemplify the distinct styles of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Crystal Lake , a 33-acre natural lake, is
84-585: The city of Newton , where it crosses the Hammond Pond Parkway and crosses Centre Street to form the defining intersection of Newton Centre . Then, it meets Walnut Street at "Four Corners" near the Newton Cemetery, and goes through Waban at its intersection with Woodward Street. It ends at Washington Street ( Route 16 ) near a junction with Boston's circumferential highway , Interstate 95 (also cosigned as Route 128 ). Beacon Street initially formed
96-584: The intersection with Commonwealth Avenue ( Route 2 ). From Kenmore Square, Beacon Street skirts the area around Fenway Park and follows a southwesterly slant through Brookline along either side of the MBTA Green Line trolley tracks to Cleveland Circle in Brighton . From there it passes through Chestnut Hill, including the Chestnut Hill Reservoir and Boston College . It winds its way into
108-532: The intersections of Beacon Street , Centre Street, and Langley Road. It is the largest downtown area among all the villages of Newton, and serves as a large upscale shopping destination for the western suburbs of Boston. The Newton City Hall and War Memorial is located at 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, and the Newton Free Library is located at 330 Homer Street in Newton Centre. The Newton Centre station of
120-467: The northern limit of Boston Common , and was extended over the Charles River Basin as a dam that would later form the shore between a narrowed river and the newly filled-in Back Bay neighborhood. The part of Beacon Street west of Kenmore Square was originally laid out in 1850. Railroad tracks were first laid in 1888 for what would eventually become the modern Green Line C branch . In July 2020,
132-475: The road over the mill dam that was constructed across the Back Bay of Boston, running from the end of Mill Dam Road to Cleveland Circle . The area remained predominantly rural, with small clusters of housing in the Cleveland Circle and Harvard Street areas. In the 1880s industrialist Henry Whitney , a Brookline resident, conceived of the Beacon Street corridor as a broad boulevard, lined with housing, with
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#1733105372647144-465: The state awarded $ 32,000 for a feasibility study and conceptual design of restoration of the original bridle path, which ran along the median of the Brookline portion. Newton Centre Newton Centre is one of the thirteen villages within the city of Newton in Middlesex County , Massachusetts , United States. The main commercial center of Newton Centre is a triangular area surrounding
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