West Roxbury Parkway

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West Roxbury Parkway
National Register of Historic Places
Historic District
West Roxbury Parkway in Brookline

The West Roxbury Parkway in Brookline

West Roxbury Parkway, Massachusetts
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location Boston and Brookline , Massachusetts , United States
Coordinates 42 ° 18 '10 "  N , 71 ° 9' 11"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 18 '10 "  N , 71 ° 9' 11"  W
Built 1919
architect Charles Eliot
NRHP number [1] 05001528
The NRHP added January 19, 2006

The West Roxbury Parkway is a by landscape architect Charles Eliot planned, however, erected after his death in 1919 historical Parkway in the urban areas of Boston and Brookline in the state of Massachusetts of the United States .

It begins on Washington Street in Boston and runs from there as Enneking Parkway south to Horace James Circle in Brookline. From there it continues as Hammond Pond Parkway and thus connects the Stony Brook Reservation and Hammond Pond Reservation with each other.

The street was listed as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2006 . It is administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston .

The streets Bellevue Hill Road , East Border Road and West Border Road flanking the Parkway are also registered as contributing property in the NRHP.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved April 15, 2008.