Brookline Town Green Historic District

The Brookline Town Green Historic District encompasses the historic colonial heart of the town of . Centered on a stretch of Walnut Street between Warren and Chestnut Streets, this area is where the town's first colonial meeting house and cemetery were laid out, and was its center of civic life until the early 19th century.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site and Old Burying Ground.

Park
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is a United States National Historic Site located in , a suburb of . Frederick Law Olmsted is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker of the 19th century.

Cemetery
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The , also known as Walnut Street Cemetery, was the first cemetery established in , in 1717. It was the town's only cemetery for 140 years until the establishment of the in 1857, and the in 1875.

Park
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is a historic park on Boylston Street in . Its principal feature is Brookline Reservoir, formerly an element of the public water supply for neighboring .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brookline and Cleveland Circle.

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is a primarily residential, although fairly high density, suburb of . It has several interesting neighborhoods to visit, and two National Historic Sites.

Neighborhood
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is an area of , . It is located at the southern tip of Boston's Brighton neighborhood, and more specifically the Aberdeen section of Brighton, near the town of and village of , at the intersection of Beacon Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of , United States, centered on the intersection of Beacon Street and Harvard Street. The neighborhood takes its name from the Coolidge & Brother general store that opened in 1857 at that intersection at the site of today's S.S.

Brookline Town Green Historic District

Latitude
42.32731° or 42° 19′ 38″ north
Longitude
-71.13156° or 71° 7′ 54″ west
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
Open location code
87JC8VG9+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358277427
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­district
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
4931500
Wiki­data ID
Q4974700
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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Town Green and Friedman Park.

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