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Charlotte Street-Esmond Street Historic District

The Charlotte Street-Esmond Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential subdivision in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

The place

The Charlotte Street-Esmond Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential subdivision in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Centered on Charlotte and Esmond Streets, the area was developed in the early 20th century following the arrival of electrified street cars on nearby Blue Hill Avenue. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Charlotte Street-Esmond 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
    Museum of Bad Art

    The Museum of Bad Art is a privately owned museum whose stated aim is "to celebrate the labor of artists whose work would be displayed and appreciated in no other forum". It was originally in Dedham, Massachusetts, and is currently in Boston, Massachusetts.

    3.1 km · museum with branches in Massachusetts, United States and Quebec · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Arnold Arboretum

    The Arnold Arboretum is a botanical research institution and free public park affiliated with Harvard University and located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston. Established in 1872, it is the oldest public arboretum in North America.

    3 km · botanical garden of the Harvard University · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton

    Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton is a Melkite Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church. The eparchy is named for Newton, Massachusetts, and encompasses the entire United States.

    4 km · eparchy of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

    The Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help informally known as The Mission Church is a Roman Catholic basilica in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The Redemptorists priests of the Baltimore Province have ministered to the parish since the church was first opened in 1870.

    3.8 km · church · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Islamic Society of Boston

    The Islamic Society of Boston is an American nonprofit organization that adheres to Islamic principles. It owns and operates two mosques.

    3.5 km · mosque and cultural center for Muslims in Cambridge, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Death and the Sculptor

    Death and the Sculptor, also known as the Milmore Monument and The Angel of Death and the Young Sculptor is a sculpture in bronze, and one of the most important and influential works of art created by sculptor Daniel Chester French. The work was commissioned to mark the grave in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, of the brothers Joseph, James and Martin Milmore.

    1.8 km · sculpture by Daniel Chester French · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Back of the Hill station

    Back of the Hill station is a light rail stop on the Green Line E branch of the MBTA subway system, located in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after, and primarily serves, the adjacent Back of the Hill apartment complex, a Section 8 development for elderly and disabled residents.

    3.9 km · Light rail stop in Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Franklin Park Zoo

    The Franklin Park Zoo is a 72-acre zoo located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is currently operated by Zoo New England, which also operates the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

    700 m · zoo in Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral

    Our Lady of the Annunciation Melkite Greek Catholic Cathedral in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is a modern cathedral inspired by Byzantine architecture. It is the principal church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton, which encompasses the entire United States, the seat of its hierarch, currently Bishop Francois Beyrouti, and the parish church of the Melkite Greek Catholic community in Greater Boston.

    4 km · church in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Forest Hills Cemetery

    Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic 275-acre rural cemetery, greenspace, arboretum, and sculpture garden in the Forest Hills section of Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery for Roxbury, Massachusetts, but was privatized when Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868.

    1.6 km · cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia

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Getting to Charlotte Street-Esmond Street Historic District

Airports
Boston Logan (BOS), 9 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 70 km · Bradley (BDL), 138 km
Stations
Forest Hills station, 2.3 km · Heath Street station, 3.8 km · Mattapan station, 3.6 km · Shawmut station, 1.8 km · Butler station, 3.6 km
  • Providence/Warwick → Charlotte Street-Esmond Street Historic District
    2035 km · quickest by road, 34h 35m · $190–260
  • Portland → Charlotte Street-Esmond Street Historic District
    2876 km · quickest by road, 48h 29m · $290–400
  • Hartford → Charlotte Street-Esmond Street Historic District
    1939 km · quickest by road, 33h 6m · $180–250
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Charlotte Street-Esmond 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 Charlotte Street-Esmond 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 inThere are a few ferries plying their trades between Boston and Provincetown, and another company connects Plymouth to P-town.

From Wikivoyage: Eastern Massachusetts, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    251 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    267 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,724 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,740 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,842 km

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Around it

Next door to Charlotte Street-Esmond Street Historic District

Charlotte Street-Esmond Street Historic District is 5 km from South Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dorchesterneighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts3.5 km
  • Roxburydissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States2.9 km
  • South Bostonneighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States3.9 km
  • Roslindaleneighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts3.9 km
  • Jamaica Plainneighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States2.4 km
  • Mattapanneighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America3.1 km