Brookline Town Green Historic District
The Brookline Town Green Historic District encompasses the historic colonial heart of the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site and Old Burying Ground.
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Park
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Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Frederick Law Olmsted is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker of the 19th century.
Old Burying Ground
Cemetery
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The Old Burying Ground, also known as Walnut Street Cemetery, was the first cemetery established in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1717. It was the town's only cemetery for 140 years until the establishment of the Holyhood Cemetery in 1857, and the Walnut Hills Cemetery in 1875.
Brookline Hills station
Railway station
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Brookline Hills station is a light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line D branch in the Brookline Hills neighborhood of Brookline, Massachusetts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pill Hill Historic District and Brookline.
Pill Hill Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Pill Hill Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Boylston Street, Pond Ave, and Acron, Oakland and Highland Roads in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Brookline
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Brookline is a primarily residential, although fairly high density, suburb of Boston. It has several interesting neighborhoods to visit, and two National Historic Sites.
Cleveland Circle
Neighborhood
Cleveland Circle is an area of Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at the southern tip of Boston's Brighton neighborhood, and more specifically the Aberdeen section of Brighton, in close proximity to Brookline and Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, at the intersection of Beacon Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue.
Brookline Town Green Historic District
- Type: Park
- Description: historic district in Massachusetts, United States
- Categories: historic district, recreation area, and historic site
- Location: Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.32731° or 42° 19′ 38″ northLongitude
-71.13156° or 71° 7′ 54″ westElevation
105 feet (32 metres)Open location code
87JC8VG9+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 358277427OpenStreetMap feature
historic=districtOpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4931500Wikidata ID
Q4974700
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Town Green and Friedman Park.
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