Fenway – Kenmore

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Fenway – Kenmore
Fenway Park, the venue for the Boston Red Sox, is located in Fenway – Kenmore
The Fenway Park , the home of the Boston Red Sox , is located in Fenway-Kenmore
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Basic data
State : United States
State : Massachusetts
County : Suffolk
Coordinates : 42 ° 21 ′  N , 71 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 21 ′  N , 71 ° 6 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 40,898 (as of 2010)
Population density : 12,780.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 3.2 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Postcodes : 02115, 02215
Area code : +1 617, 857

Fenway – Kenmore is a district ( Neighborhood ) of Boston in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . The city administers the area as a single district, although it is composed of the largely independent areas of West and East Fenway / Symphony for the part of Fenway and Audubon Circle and Kenmore Square for the part of Kenmore .

Fenway was named after the parkway of the same name , which was laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted . According to the United States Census 2010 , 40,898 people lived in the district at that time. The land area was given in 2000 as 1.24  mi² (3.21  km² ).

geography

Expansion of the urban area

This aerial view of West Fenway and Kenmore shows the Back Bay Fens (bottom left), Fenway Park (center), and a corner of Kenmore Square (right).

Fenway is bounded to the southwest by Mission Hill , to the southeast by Columbus Avenue , to the east by Massachusetts Avenue , to the north by the Massachusetts Turnpike, and to the west by Longwood Medical and Academic Area and Brookline . The Back Bay Fens are located in the center of the district.

The district consists almost exclusively of five to six-story apartment buildings that were built between 1880 and 1930. There are only a few shops that are spread across the street. Fenway is separated from the Back Bay neighborhood by the Muddy River , which flows into the Charles River through the Back Bay Fens .

Kenmore is located north and west of Fenway and is no different. The Fenway Park is actually located in Kenmore , just on the other side of the Massachusetts Turnpike from Kenmore Square viewed from. In Kenmore many students from the nearby live Boston University and Northeastern University . In the past 20 years, almost every residential building in Kenmore has been bought by Boston University and converted into student dormitories , particularly in the Audubon Circle area between Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue .

history

Historical development

The Landmark Center was previously the Sears Company's mail center and warehouse .

The district is located on land that was gained through annexation from neighboring Brookline in the 1870s and through landfill in connection with the establishment of the Emerald Necklace by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1890s.

At the planning stage it was assumed that the houses to be built along the Fenway would accommodate very wealthy residents and that the entire district would only attract wealthy and highly educated people. However, with the rise in land prices, educational institutions came to Fenway instead of wealthy citizens . By 1907 there were already 22 institutes at Fenway , including nine colleges and universities .

Newly built residential buildings had to have the design and appearance of their fronts approved by a special committee of the administration so that a "poor-looking building does not reduce the value of the entire district". The committee was able to decide at its own discretion whether or not a building matched the desired cityscape. It was hoped that this would improve the visual appearance compared to neighboring streets.

In recent years, development in Fenway has been largely driven by the real estate company Samuels and Associates . Recent projects include the renovation of the Landmark Center , the construction of the Hotel Commonwealth on the site of the former Rathskeller Bar and the construction of the 17-story Trilogy apartment building on Brookline Avenue and Boylston Street . A second high-rise apartment building at 1330 Boylston Street was completed in 2008 and has 210 apartments and 7,897 m² of office space. The building is also home to the new Fenway Health headquarters .

Street names

Original plan of the Emerald Necklace from 1894.

In West Fenway , there are three roads to the Scottish cities of the literary works of Robert Burns were named: Peterborough , Kilmarnock and Queensbury . The origin of this name goes back to the Robert Burns (literary) Society , which had a strong influence on those responsible during a decision-making process by the city of Boston with a view to simplifying the original plan of the district (see illustration) drawn up by Frederick Law Olmsted's office exercised. This plan actually intended to adopt the system for naming the streets from the Back Bay district , where they are sorted alphabetically. Accordingly, the continuation of the streets from Hereford Street should be Ipswich , Jersey , Kenyon (Kilmarnock) , Lansdowne , Mornington , Nottingham , Onslow , Peterborough , Queensbury , Roseberry , Salisbury , Thurlow , Uxbridge , Vivian , Westmeath (Wellesley) , X omitted , York and Zetland are called.

The Fenway and Park Drive Parkways , which run around the Back Bay Fens , were named after parks from the Emerald Necklace system . Other streets in Fenway bear the names of institutions or personalities who have made a contribution to the district: Palace Road , Forsyth Way , Evans Way , Forsyth Street , Hemenway Street , Agassiz Road (named after Ida Agassiz ), Yawkey Way , Symphony Road , St. Stephens Street , Opera Place and Speare Place .

Population development

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1980 30,842 -
1990 32,880 6.6%
2000 36.191 10.1%
2010 40,989 13.3%

According to the United States Census 2010 , there were 40,989 people in Fenway-Kenmore in 2010 . Of these, 65.6% were white, 17.7% Asian, 8.0% Hispanic or Latino, and 5.5% African American .

The East Fenway District is home to many students as this area is close to colleges and universities. In West Fenway , however, mainly young families and highly skilled workers live. There are many businesses around Kenmore Square , as well as Boston University student housing .

Culture and sights

Boston’s Kenmore Square with the Citgo symbol that can be seen from afar .

Kenmore Square with its famous landmarks is particularly worth seeing (see photo).

Museums

In Fenway-Kenmore , the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston can be visited.

Buildings

Famous beyond Fenway-Kenmore is the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral at 165 Park Drive .

Sports

Fenway Park is located in the district .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

A Green Line vehicle at Fenway Station .

The district is in the public transport on the station Ruggles to the Orange Line of the MBTA connected. In addition, the various lines of the Green Line stop at the following stops:

  • Kenmore - Lines B , C, and D
  • Fenway - Line D.
  • St. Mary's Street - Line C.
  • Symphony - Line E
  • Northeastern - Line E.
  • Museum of Fine Arts - Line E

The Yawkey Station of Pendlerzugstrecke Framingham Worcester is located near the Fenway Park and Kenmore Square and offers commuters during rush hours more options. Various MBTA bus lines, which connect Fenway-Kenmore to the city center and neighboring cities , also stop in the district .

The Back Bay Fens around the lead Fenway and Park Drive . The Boylston Street is an important east-west route, as well as the Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue , which at Kenmore Square cross. Huntington Avenue runs along the southern edge of the borough and Massachusetts Avenue runs along the east side . Although the Massachusetts Turnpike runs through Fenway-Kenmore , there is no direct access to the street in the neighborhood.

education

The following educational institutions are located in the area of ​​the district (listed in alphabetical order):

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Nicoya Borella, Mark Melnik: Fenway-Kenmore Planning District 2010 Census Population. (PDF; 304 kB) (No longer available online.) Boston Redevelopment Authority , March 2011, archived from the original on July 29, 2012 ; accessed on April 15, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org
  2. ↑ a b Eswaran Selvarajah, Rolf Goetze, Jim Vrabel: Fenway-Kenmore: 2000 Census of Population and Housing. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Boston Redevelopment Authority , December 15, 2003, archived from the original on September 19, 2010 ; accessed on April 15, 2012 .
  3. ^ A b Alfred Emanuel Smith: New outlook . tape 86 . Outlook Pub. Co., New York 1907, OCLC 1716420 , p. 895 ( online in Google Book Search [accessed April 16, 2012]).
  4. ^ William Jackson: Annual report of the Park Department . Ed .: City of Boston. Department of Parks. Boston 1912, OCLC 6980600 , p. 8 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 16, 2012]).
  5. ^ Samuels & Associates. Retrieved April 16, 2012 .
  6. ^ Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral. Archived from the original on April 7, 2012 ; accessed on April 25, 2012 (English).

Web links

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