Hemenway Playground
Hemenway Playground is a park in City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Hemenway Playground is situated nearby to the peak Popes Hill, as well as near the park Adams-King Playground.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pierce House and Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.
Pierce House
Museum
Photo: Jameslwoodward, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pierce House is a rare 17th-century house at 24 Oakton Avenue in the Dorchester neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. Built c. 1683, It documents period building practices, and the tastes and housing needs of one family, the Pierces, over more than three centuries. Pierce House is situated 1,800 feet southeast of Hemenway Playground.
Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy
Building
The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, - was founded by Mother Teresa Eva Potocka in Warsaw, Poland on November 1, 1862. This was the first "Mercy House". The order uses the abbreviation O.L.M. Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy is situated 1,800 feet east of Hemenway Playground.
Dorchester Shores Reservation
Recreation area
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Dorchester Shores Reservation has been used as a common name for several non-contiguous recreation areas along the extended mouth of the Neponset River at the seaboard edge of the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Dorchester Shores Reservation is situated 3,200 feet east of Hemenway Playground.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fields Corner and Neponset.
Fields Corner
Neighborhood
Fields Corner is a historic commercial district in Dorchester, the largest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States founded in June 1630.
Neponset
Neighborhood
Photo: Boston City Archives, CC BY 2.0.
Neponset is a district in the southeastern corner of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The Neponset Indians were the original inhabitants of this district and in 1646 John Eliot preached unsuccessfully to the Native American community in Lower Mills led by Sachem Cutshamekin before the tribe moved to Ponkapoag.
Ashmont
Neighborhood
Ashmont is a section of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the subsections of Ashmont Hill, Peabody Square, and Ashmont-Adams.
Hemenway Playground
- Type: Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.29141° or 42° 17′ 29″ northLongitude
-71.05617° or 71° 3′ 22″ westOpen location code
87JC7WRV+HGOpenStreetMap ID
way 29830210OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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