Boylston Street
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| place | Boston |
| District | Fenway-Kenmore , Back Bay |
| Created | 18th century |
| Hist. Names | Frog Lane, Common Street |
| Connecting roads | Storrow Drive , Commonwealth Avenue , Charles Street , Tremont Street , Washington Street |
| Cross streets | Park Drive , Brookline Avenue |
| Places | Copley Square |
| Buildings | Back Bay Fens , Boston Public Garden , Boston Common , Boston Public Library |
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| User groups | Car traffic , public transport |
Boylston Street is the name of a large, running from west to east thoroughfare in Boston in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . There is another street with that name in the western suburbs of Boston. Boylston Street was called Frog Lane in the 18th century and later Common Street until it was last renamed in honor of the merchant and philanthropist Ward Nicholas Boylston . Boylston was a descendant of Zabdiel Boylston , was born in Boston and lived there for much of his life. The Boylston Market and the town of Boylston were also named after him.
Course of the road
To the west, Boylston Street begins as a four-lane road at the intersection of Park Drive and Brookline Avenue and soon after forms the northern boundary of the Back Bay Fens . At Ipswich Street, the street goes from the Fenway – Kenmore district to Back Bay , where it becomes a major artery from Dalton Street. In Back Bay, Boylston Street forms the northern boundary of busy Copley Square and the southern boundary of the Boston Public Garden . It continues along the southern border of Boston Common to Tremont Street . It ends on Washington Street in downtown Boston, where it becomes Essex Street.
Attractions
- Saint Francis House - former building of the Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company
- Boston Common
- Emerson College - some buildings are along the street
- Boston Public Garden
- 500 Boylston Street - postmodern office building
- Trinity Church
- Copley Square
- Old South Church
- Boston Public Library
- Hynes Convention Center
- 941–955 Boylston Street - formerly a fire station and later owned by the Institute of Contemporary Art , now part of the Boston Architectural College
- Berklee College of Music
- Back Bay Fens
- Saint Clement's Eucharistic Shrine
The Rogers Building of MIT was at the address 497 Boylston Street before the institute in 1916 by Cambridge moved. A plaque on the building reminds of this today.
Transportation
The MBTA - Green Line runs along Boylston Street with the stations Boylston , Arlington , Copley , Hynes Convention Center and Fenway (from east to west).
Individual evidence
- ^ Ward Nicholas Boylston. (No longer available online.) Princeton Historical Society, archived from the original on November 11, 2010 ; accessed on January 10, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Samuel A. Drake: Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . James R. Osgood and Co., Boston 1873, OCLC 3012180 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ A b William Bentinck-Smith: Nicholas Boylston and His Harvard Chair . In: Massachusetts Historical Society (Ed.): Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society . No. 93 , 1981, pp. 17-39 , JSTOR : 25080886 .
- ^ A Letter from Nicholas Boylston (1771? –1839) . In: The Trustees (Ed.): Bulletin of the Public library of the city of Boston . 1921, OCLC 2033763 , p. 307-309 .
- ↑ Boylston Family Papers. Guide to the Collection. Massachusetts Historical Society, accessed January 10, 2012 .
- ^ Reports of the President and Treasurer. (PDF; 10.8 MB) For the Year 1920–1921. In: President's Report. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 1921, accessed January 10, 2012 .
