Charles Eliot Memorial
The Charles Eliot Memorial is a memorial commemorating landscape architect Charles Eliot, installed along Boston's Charles River Esplanade, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Memorial
- Description: Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Inscription: “To honor Charles Eliot 1859 - 1897 Landscape Architect He sought out hill forest shore for all to enjoy”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Massachusetts General Hospital and Commissioners Landing.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the original and largest clinical education and research facility of Harvard Medical School/Harvard University, and houses the world's largest hospital-based research program with an annual research budget of more than $1.2 billion in 2021. Massachusetts General Hospital is situated 1,600 feet northeast of Charles Eliot Memorial.
Commissioners Landing
Rest area
Commissioners Landing is a focal point along Boston's Charles River Esplanade, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Designed by Arthur Shurcliff during the 1930s, the landing features a granite wall and approximately 3-foot balustrade, with steps leading to the river. Commissioners Landing is situated 410 feet south of Charles Eliot Memorial.
Frances Appleton Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Ahecht, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Frances Appleton Pedestrian Bridge is a pedestrian bridge in Boston, Massachusetts that opened on August 31, 2018. The bridge, which crosses Storrow Drive, is named in recognition of the celebrated courtship and marriage of Frances “Fanny” Appleton and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, after whom an adjacent larger bridge is named. Frances Appleton Bridge is situated 400 feet northeast of Charles Eliot Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beacon Hill and Back Bay-Beacon Hill.
Beacon Hill
Suburb
Photo: Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.
Back Bay-Beacon Hill
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.
West End
Suburb
Photo: RawheaD Rex, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The West End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bounded generally by Cambridge Street to the south, the Charles River to the west and northwest, North Washington Street on the north and northeast, and New Sudbury Street on the east.
Charles Eliot Memorial
- Category: historic site
- Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.35949° or 42° 21′ 34″ northLongitude
-71.07307° or 71° 4′ 23″ westInception
1931Height
8.2 feet (2.5 metres)Open location code
87JC9W5G+QQOpenStreetMap ID
way 834377041OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q75154688
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