Roxbury High Fort
Roxbury High Fort is a historic fort site on Beech Glen Street at Fort Avenue in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The site now contains a small park and the Cochituate Standpipe, also known as Fort Hill Tower, built in 1869.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include William Lloyd Garrison House and Fort Hill.
William Lloyd Garrison House
Historic house
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The William Lloyd Garrison House, also known as Rockledge, is a National Historic Landmark house, located at 125 Highland Street in the Roxbury Highlands section of Boston, Massachusetts. William Lloyd Garrison House is situated 360 feet northeast of Roxbury High Fort.
Fort Hill
Tower
Fort Hill is a 0.4 square mile neighborhood and historic district of Roxbury, in Boston, Massachusetts. The approximate boundaries of Fort Hill are Malcolm X Boulevard on the north, Washington Street on the southeast, and Columbus Avenue on the southwest.
Alvah Kittredge House
Historic house
Photo: Marcbela, Public domain.
The Alvah Kittredge House is an historic house in the highlands of the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story Greek Revival mansion was built in 1836 for Alvah Kittredge, a leading real estate developer of the time. Alvah Kittredge House is situated 1,000 feet northeast of Roxbury High Fort.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nubian Square and Roxbury.
Nubian Square
Neighborhood
Nubian Square is the primary commercial center of the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located at the intersection of Dudley Street and Washington Street.
Roxbury
One of the first towns founded in Massachusetts Bay, Roxbury is located at the geographic center of Boston. Serving as the heart of Black culture in Boston, Roxbury seriously considered seceding from Boston during the late 1980s.
Mission Hill
Suburb
Photo: MurderWatcher1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Roxbury High Fort
- Type: Historic site
- Description: park in Massachusetts, United States of America
- Categories: park, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.32536° or 42° 19′ 31″ northLongitude
-71.09479° or 71° 5′ 41″ westOpen location code
87JC8WG4+43OpenStreetMap ID
way 477473184OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesWikidata ID
Q7372416
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Highlights include Highland Park, Roxbury and Emmanuel College Notre Dame Campus.
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