Stony Brook Reservation Parkways

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Stony Brook Reservation Parkways
National Register of Historic Places
Historic District
The roads lead past Turtle Pond, among other places.

The roads lead past Turtle Pond , among other places .

Stony Brook Reservation Parkways, Massachusetts
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location Boston and Dedham , Massachusetts , United States
Coordinates 42 ° 15 '58.5 "  N , 71 ° 8' 38"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 15 '58.5 "  N , 71 ° 8' 38"  W.
surface 21.3 acres (86,200 m²)
Built 1894 to 1956
architect Charles Eliot , Olmsted Brothers
NRHP number [1] 05001509
The NRHP added January 3, 2006

The Stony Brook Reservation Parkways is a group of historic parkways on the urban areas of Boston and Dedham in the state of Massachusetts of the United States in the period from 1894 to 1956 by the landscape architect Charles Eliot in collaboration with the architectural firm of Olmsted Brothers were erected .

Specifically, these are Dedham Parkway , Enneking Parkway , Turtle Pond Parkway and West Boundary Road , which are within the Stony Brook Reservation . They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 2006 . The streets are administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and are part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston .

Smithfield Road and Reservation Road , which also run through the park, are registered as non-contributing property .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009.