Tremont Street

Tremont Street
Street in Boston
The street in front of the King's Chapel
Basic data
place	Boston
District	Government Center , Mission Hill , South End
Hist. Names	Treamount Street
Connecting roads	Cambridge Street, Huntington Avenue
Cross streets	Beacon , Boylston , Massachusetts Turnpike , Massachusetts Avenue
Buildings	Granary Burying Ground , King's Chapel , Suffolk University Law School , Park Street Church , Boston Common , Emerson College , Boston Center for the Arts , Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length	3.3  mi (5.3  km )

The Tremont Street is a 3.3 mi (5.3 km) long thoroughfare through the Boston neighborhoods Government Center , Mission Hill and South End in the state of Massachusetts of the United States .

history

This British military map from 1775 already shows Treamount Street .

The name of the street goes back to a hill with three elevations (English Trimountaine ), of which only Beacon Hill still exists today. Over time, with Cotton Hill and Mt. Whoredom, a large part of the original hill was removed to make way for building land and to fill in the Shawmut Peninsula with the material .

Route

The Tremont Street begins right next to the MBTA -U station Government Center in the same district as a one-way street in a southerly direction as a junction of Cambridge Street and Court Street . It runs along the eastern border to Boston Common past the Tufts Medical Center and turns west after Eliot Norton Park for about 90 m, and at the next intersection immediately leads back to the southwest over the Massachusetts Turnpike .

From the intersection with Berkeley Street , Tremont Street runs in a southwest direction parallel to Huntington Avenue . It crosses Massachusetts Avenue and is shown as Massachusetts Route 28 from the confluence with Columbus Avenue . At the intersection of Malcolm X Boulevard she turns to the northwest and finally flows on Brigham Circle on Huntington Avenue .

Buildings and sights

Along the way, Tremont Street runs from northeast to southwest past the following buildings and sights:

• Granary Burying Ground
• King's Chapel
• Suffolk University Law School
• Park Street Church
• Boston Common
• Emerson College
• Boston Center for the Arts
• Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Individual evidence

1. ^ MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report. ( PDF ; 7.3 MB) BOSTON. Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1981, accessed May 1, 2013 . 

Web links

Commons : Tremont Street  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Views of Tremont street, Boston (1894). In: Library of Congress. Accessed May 1, 2013 .