Mission Hill
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.Photo: MaynardClark, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Hope.
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.
Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Hope
Church
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The Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help informally known as The Mission Church is a Roman Catholic basilica in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Warren Anatomical Museum
Museum
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The Warren Anatomical Museum, part of Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren, whose personal collection of 160 unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens form the nucleus of the museum's 15,000-item collection.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Longwood Medical and Academic Area and Brookline.
Longwood Medical and Academic Area
Suburb
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The Longwood Medical and Academic Area, also known as Longwood Medical Area, LMA, or simply Longwood, is a medical campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Flanking Longwood Avenue, LMA is adjacent to the Fenway–Kenmore, Audubon Circle, and Mission Hill neighborhoods, as well as the town of Brookline.
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.
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.
Mission Hill
- Categories: neighborhood in Boston and locality
- Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.33327° or 42° 19′ 60″ northLongitude
-71.10203° or 71° 6′ 7″ westPopulation
18,700Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)Open location code
87JC8VMX+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 9302135097OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8532041Wikidata ID
Q1939043
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Mission Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mission Hill”
- Chinese: “传教山 (波士顿)”
- Chinese: “传教山”
- French: “Mission Hill”
- German: “Mission Hill”
- Turkish: “Mission Hill”
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Localities in the Area
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