Hillside Avenue Historic District (Medford, Massachusetts)
The Hillside Avenue Historic District of Medford, Massachusetts encompasses a well-preserved late 19th-century residential subdivision.
The Hillside Avenue Historic District of Medford, Massachusetts encompasses a well-preserved late 19th-century residential subdivision. It consists of fifteen properties on Hillside and Grand View Avenues, near the downtown area of the city. Most of the houses in the district are Queen Anne Victorians, built in the 1890s; there are a number of Colonial Revival, Tudor, and Shingle style homes, all dating in construction between 1875 and 1895. Of particular note is the Bela Warner house at 35 Hillside Avenue, a dramatically sited Shingle style house built 1881–82.
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Worth seeing in and around Hillside Avenue Historic District (Medford, Massachusetts)
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.
- 01Tufts 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.
1.6 km · private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 02The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school for international relations at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, United States. Fletcher is one of America's oldest and most distinguished graduate schools of international relations.
1.6 km · Tufts University school of international relations and law · Wikipedia - 03Mystic Dam
The Mystic Dam are a historic dam and gatehouse between Lower and Upper Mystic Lakes in the suburbs north of Boston, Massachusetts. The dam was built in 1864–65 by the Charlestown Water Commission as part of a water supply system.
3.2 km · dam in Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia - 04Porter Square
Porter Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Somerville Avenue, between Harvard and Davis Squares. The Porter Square station serves both the MBTA Red Line and the Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line.
3.6 km · square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia - 05Converse Memorial Library
The Converse Memorial Library is a historically significant building located in Malden, Massachusetts, and designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. From 1885 to 1996, it housed the Malden Public Library, which now has moved most of its operations to a modern building adjacent to it.
3.9 km · library in Malden, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 06Davis Square
Davis Square is a major intersection in the northwestern section of Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Holland Street, Dover Street, Day Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue all meet there.
2.8 km · square in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia - 07United States Post Office
The United States Post Office—Arlington Main is a historic post office in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1936, this Colonial Revival brick structure is most notable for the mural in its lobby, which was painted in 1938 by William C. Palmer, with funding from the Federal Art Project.
3.6 km · government building in Arlington, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 08Jason Russell House
The Jason Russell House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts, in and around which at least twenty-one colonial combatants died fighting on the first day of the American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775. The house was purchased in 1923 by the Arlington Historical Society which restored it in 1926 and now operates it as a museum.
3.8 km · Historic house · Wikipedia - 09Alewife Brook Reservation
Alewife Brook Reservation is a Massachusetts state park and urban wild located in Cambridge, Arlington, and Somerville. The park is managed by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation and was established in 1900.
3.7 km · state park in Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 10St. James Episcopal Church
St. James's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church at 1991 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
3.4 km · church in Cambridge, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hillside Avenue Historic District (Medford, Massachusetts)
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 11 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 82 km · Bradley (BDL), 140 km
- Stations
- Alewife station, 3.6 km · Davis station, 2.7 km · Malden Center station, 3.2 km · Ball Square station, 2.3 km · Magoun Square station, 3 km
- Providence/Warwick → Hillside Avenue Historic District (Medford, Massachusetts)82 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · $8–11
- Portland → Hillside Avenue Historic District (Medford, Massachusetts)4069 km · quickest by air, 9h 3m · $450–690
- Hartford → Hillside Avenue Historic District (Medford, Massachusetts)149 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · $13–18
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