The Gazing Ball

The Gazing Ball is a monument in City of Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts. The Gazing Ball is situated nearby to the park Hancock Adams Common, as well as near Hancock Cemetery.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include United First Parish Church and Hancock Cemetery.

United First Parish Church

Place of worship

Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0.

United First Parish Church is an American Unitarian Universalist congregation in Quincy, Massachusetts, established as the parish church of Quincy in 1639.

Hancock Cemetery

Cemetery

Photo: Sswonk, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hancock Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the Hancock Adams Common, across from the United First Parish Church, in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.

The Thomas Crane Public Library is a city library in Quincy, Massachusetts. Noted for its Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, the building was funded by the Crane family as a memorial to Thomas Crane, a wealthy stone contractor who got his start in the Quincy quarries. Thomas Crane Public Library is situated 890 feet east of The Gazing Ball.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Quincy and Adams Shore.

Quincy

Photo: Sswonk, Public domain.

Quincy is in Massachusetts. Quincy was the birthplace of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. United States Declaration of Independence signer and first Massachusetts governor John Hancock was also born here.

Adams Shore

Hamlet

Adams Shore is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is located on the shore of Quincy Bay at the entrance to the Hough's Neck peninsula. It is bordered on the north by Quincy Bay, on the east by the Hough's Neck neighborhood, on the south by Town River Bay and on the west by the Merrymount neighborhood.

Braintree Split

Locality

The Braintree Split is the major interchange of Interstate 93, U.S. Route 1, and Route 3 in Braintree, Massachusetts, one of the South Shore suburbs of Boston. Braintree Split is situated 2 miles southwest of The Gazing Ball.

The Gazing Ball

Type: Monument
Category: historic site
Location: City of Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.25112° or 42° 15′ 4″ north

Longitude

-71.00399° or 71° 0′ 14″ west

Open location code

87JC7X2W+CC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13799114017

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hancock Adams Common and City of Quincy Welcome Center.

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