William Lloyd Garrison House
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Historic house
- Description: historic house in Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Rockledge”
- Address: 125 Highland Street
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Roxbury High Fort and Alvah Kittredge House.
Roxbury High Fort
Historic site
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. Roxbury High Fort is situated 360 feet southwest of William Lloyd Garrison House.
Alvah Kittredge House
Historic house
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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 710 feet north of William Lloyd Garrison House.
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. Fort Hill is situated 340 feet southwest of William Lloyd Garrison House.
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.
William Lloyd Garrison House
- Categories: house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.32589° or 42° 19′ 33″ northLongitude
-71.09368° or 71° 5′ 37″ westNamed after
William Lloyd GarrisonOpen location code
87JC8WG4+9GOpenStreetMap ID
way 816686932OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=houseWikidata ID
Q8014641
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In Other Languages
From French to German—“William Lloyd Garrison House” goes by many names.
- French: “Rockledge”
- French: “William Lloyd Garrison House”
- German: “Rockledge”
- German: “William Lloyd Garrison House”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Emmanuel College Notre Dame Campus and Highland Park, Roxbury.
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