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Historic district in Massachusetts, United States

Bow Street Historic District

The Bow Street Historic District encompasses a mixed 19th-century commercial-residential in the Union Square area of Somerville, Massachusetts.

Bow Street Historic District
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The place

The Bow Street Historic District encompasses a mixed 19th-century commercial-residential in the Union Square area of Somerville, Massachusetts. It covers a part of the west side of Union Square that saw significant development during the city's growth in the 19th century, and has remained well-preserved since then. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bow Street Historic District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Harvard University

    Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636, and named Harvard College in 1639 in honor of its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

    1.7 km · private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1861 to advance "useful knowledge", the university has played a significant role in the development of many areas of technology and science.

    2.5 km · private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1861 · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Boston University

    Boston University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont.

    3.6 km · private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    TD Garden

    TD Garden is a multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located directly above the MBTA's North Station, and it replaced the original Boston Garden upon opening in 1995.

    3.4 km · multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tufts University

    Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning.

    3.3 km · private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Harvard Law School

    Harvard Law School is the law school of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States.

    1.7 km · law school of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Harvard College Observatory

    The Harvard College Observatory is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and was founded in 1839.

    2.5 km · observatory · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, previously known as the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is an astrophysics research institute jointly operated by the Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, the CfA leads a broad program of research in astronomy, astrophysics, Earth and space sciences, as well as science education.

    2.5 km · astronomical observatory in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

    The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is a research institute of the Smithsonian Institution, concentrating on astrophysical studies including galactic and extragalactic astronomy, cosmology, solar, earth and planetary sciences, theory and instrumentation, using observations at wavelengths from the highest energy gamma rays to the radio, along with gravitational waves. Established in Washington, D.C., in 1890, the SAO moved its headquarters in 1955 to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where its research is a collaboration with the Harvard College Observatory and the Harvard University Department of Astronomy.

    2.5 km · astronomical observatory · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Harvard College

    Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University. It is administered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

    1.7 km · undergraduate college of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bow Street Historic District

Airports
Boston Logan (BOS), 8 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 78 km · Bradley (BDL), 140 km
Stations
North Station, 3.4 km · Bowdoin station, 3.7 km
  • Providence/Warwick → Bow Street Historic District
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · $7–9
  • Portland → Bow Street Historic District
    3142 km · quickest by road, 53h 23m · $315–435
  • Hartford → Bow Street Historic District
    13 km · quickest by road, 25 min · $1–1.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bow Street Historic District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bow Street Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe F4 water taxi runs between Long Wharf and the Charlestown Navy Yard.

From Wikivoyage: Boston/Charlestown, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    257 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    261 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,733 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,749 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,851 km

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Around it

Next door to Bow Street Historic District

Bow Street Historic District is 4 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Charlestownneighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States2.9 km
  • North Endneighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States4 km
  • Back Bayneighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts3.7 km
  • Beacon Hillneighborhood in Boston3.7 km
  • Port of BostonSeaport district in Boston, Massachusetts, USA3.6 km