Beacon Library

Beacon Library is a library in City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Beacon Library is situated nearby to Gibson House Museum, as well as near the place of worship First Church in Boston.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gibson House Museum and First Church in Boston.

Gibson House Museum

Museum

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The Gibson House Museum is a historic house museum located at 137 Beacon Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It preserves the 1860 Victorian rowhouse occupied by three generations of the Gibson family. Gibson House Museum is situated 330 feet east of Beacon Library.

First Church in Boston

Place of worship

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First Church in Boston is a Unitarian Universalist Church founded in 1630 by John Winthrop's original Puritan settlement in Boston, Massachusetts. The current building, located in the Back Bay neighborhood, was designed by Paul Rudolph in a modernist style after a fire in 1968. First Church in Boston is situated 450 feet south of Beacon Library.

Boston Public Garden

Park

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The Public Garden, also known as Boston Public Garden, is a large park in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston Common. It is a part of the Emerald Necklace system of parks and is bounded by Charles Street and Boston Common to the east, Beacon Street and Beacon Hill to the north, Arlington Street and Back Bay to the west, and Boylston Street to the south.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Back Bay-Beacon Hill and Back Bay.

Back Bay-Beacon Hill

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Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.