Jamaica Plain

Worth seeing in and around Jamaica Plain

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 Fine Arts Boston

   The Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area.

   3.9 km · art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

   The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts.

   3.6 km · art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   1.3 km · botanical garden of the Harvard University · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   2.1 km · eparchy of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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 km · church · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

   Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology is a private Eastern Orthodox liberal arts college and seminary in Brookline and Boston in Massachusetts. The institution is composed of two schools.

   1.7 km · college and seminary in Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Appeal to the Great Spirit

   Appeal to the Great Spirit is a 1908 equestrian statue by Cyrus Dallin, located in front of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It portrays a Native American on horseback facing skyward, his arms spread wide in a spiritual request to the Great Spirit.

   3.8 km · statue by Cyrus Dallin at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Simmons University

   Simmons University is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1899 by clothing manufacturer John Simmons as Simmons College, in 2018 it reorganized its structure and adopted its current name.

   3.7 km · private women-focused university in Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Wikipedia
9. 09
   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.

   1.2 km · sculpture by Daniel Chester French · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston

    The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston is an ecclesiastical territory or metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Church in the New England region of the United States. It is led by a metropolitan bishop and is part of the Archdiocese of America which itself is under the control of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

    3.6 km · ecclesiastical territory of the Greek Orthodox Church · Wikipedia

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Getting to Jamaica Plain

Airports

Boston Logan (BOS), 11 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 70 km · Bradley (BDL), 136 km

Stations

Forest Hills station, 800 m · Beaconsfield station, 3.9 km · Brookline Hills station, 2.9 km · Heath Street station, 2.3 km · Brigham Circle station, 3.1 km

• Providence/Warwick → Jamaica Plain

  73 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · $7–9
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• Portland → Jamaica Plain

  4074 km · quickest by air, 9h 2m · $450–690
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• Hartford → Jamaica Plain

  143 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · $13–18
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