Collins Building

The Collins Building is an historic commercial building at 213-217 Washington Street in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. The three-story brick building was constructed by Charles F.

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Type: Building
Description: listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Address: MA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Boston Children’s Hospital.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Museum

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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is situated 500 feet northwest of Collins Building.

Boston Children’s Hospital

Hospital

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Boston Children's Hospital is the main pediatric training and research hospital of Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. It is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care children's hospital located at the centre of Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Children’s Hospital is situated 2,000 feet west of Collins Building.

Longwood Medical Area station

Railway stop

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Longwood Medical Area station is a light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line E branch, located in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is named for the adjacent Longwood Medical Area and is the busiest surface stop on the Green Line surface branches, averaging 3,813 daily boardings by a 2011 count. Longwood Medical Area station is situated 500 feet southwest of Collins Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mission Hill and Frederick Douglass Square Historic District.

Mission Hill

Suburb

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Mission Hill is a 3⁄4 square mile, primarily residential neighborhood of Boston, bordered by Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Fenway-Kenmore and the town of Brookline.

Frederick Douglass Square Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Frederick Douglass Square Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Hammond Street, Cabot Street, Windsor Street, and Westminster Street, in the Lower Roxbury area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Fenway-Kenmore

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The Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood is named after Kenmore Square, and after the Fens, both of which it encompasses. Kenmore Square is the area's dynamic urban center.

Collins Building

Category: commercial building
Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.33704° or 42° 20′ 13″ north

Longitude

-71.09811° or 71° 5′ 53″ west

Elevation

16 feet (5 metres)

Open location code

87JC8WP2+RQ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 367780133

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

4933702

Wikidata ID

Q5147355

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