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Hillside Avenue Historic District (Medford, Massachusetts)

The Hillside Avenue Historic District of Medford, Massachusetts encompasses a well-preserved late 19th-century residential subdivision.

The place

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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What is there

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.

  1. 01
    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.

    1.6 km · private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The 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
  3. 03
    Mystic 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
  4. 04
    Porter 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
  5. 05
    Converse 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
  6. 06
    Davis 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
  7. 07
    United 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
  8. 08
    Jason 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
  9. 09
    Alewife 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
  10. 10
    St. 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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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.

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    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    259 km
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    260 km
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    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,738 km
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    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,754 km
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    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

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Hillside Avenue Historic District (Medford, Massachusetts) is 8 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.