Newton Centre, Massachusetts
Newton Centre is one of the thirteen villages within the city of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Newton Centre is one of the thirteen villages within the city of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The main commercial center of Newton Centre is a triangular area surrounding the intersections of Beacon Street, Centre Street, and Langley Road. It is the largest downtown area among all the villages of Newton, and serves as a large upscale shopping destination for the western suburbs of Boston. The Newton City Hall and War Memorial is located at 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, and the Newton Free Library is located at 330 Homer Street in Newton Centre. The Newton Centre station of the MBTA Green Line "D" branch is located on Union Street.
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Worth seeing in and around Newton Centre, 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.
- 01Boston College
Boston College is a private Catholic Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order, the university has more than 15,000 total students, making it the seventh largest Catholic university in the U.S. by enrollment.
2 km · private research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 02Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building.
3.2 km · museum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 03Alumni Stadium
Alumni Stadium is a college football stadium on the lower campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. It is about 6 miles west of downtown Boston, just inside the Boston city limits near the border with Newton.
2.4 km · stadium in Boston, MA · Wikipedia - 04Hammond Pond Reservation
Hammond Pond Reservation is a protected woodland park in Newton, Massachusetts. It features Hammond Pond, fishing and hiking trails as well as formations of sandstone conglomerate and Roxbury puddingstone which are popular for rock climbing.
1.6 km · state park · Wikipedia - 05Boston College Law School
Boston College Law School is the law school of Boston College, a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. It is situated on a 40-acre campus in Newton, Massachusetts, about 1.5 miles from the university's main campus in Chestnut Hill.
1.3 km · law school of Boston College · Wikipedia - 06South Street station
South Street station is a light rail surface stop on the MBTA Green Line B branch, located in the median of Commonwealth Avenue east of South Street in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. South Street is the lowest-ridership stop on the B branch, with just 214 daily boardings by a 2011 survey.
3.2 km · Light rail stop in Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 07Waban station
Waban station is a surface-level light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line D branch, located just south of Beacon Street at Waban Square in the Waban section of Newton, Massachusetts. The station is located below grade; access to both platforms is via Wyman Street on the outbound side of the tracks or a stairway from Beacon Street.
3 km · Light rail stop in Newton, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 08Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake is a 33-acre natural great pond located in Newton, Massachusetts. Its shores, mostly lined with private homes, also host two small parks and a designated swimming area with a bathhouse.
600 m · lake in Newton, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 09Hebrew College
Hebrew College is a private college of Jewish studies in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Founded in 1921, the college conducts Jewish scholarship in a pluralistic, trans-denominational academic environment.
700 m · private college of Jewish studies in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 10Hemlock Gorge Reservation
Hemlock Gorge Reservation is a state-owned, public recreation area and urban wild comprising 23 acres on the Charles River in Newton and Needham, Massachusetts. The reservation is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
3.2 km · state park in Massachusetts, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Newton Centre, Massachusetts
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 16 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 70 km · Bradley (BDL), 131 km
- Stations
- Boston College station, 2.5 km · Newton Centre station, 200 m · Eliot station, 2.2 km · Newton Highlands station, 1.3 km · Chestnut Hill Avenue station, 3.5 km
- Providence/Warwick → Newton Centre, Massachusetts73 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · $7–9
- Portland → Newton Centre, Massachusetts4067 km · quickest by air, 9h 17m · $460–700
- Hartford → Newton Centre, Massachusetts138 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · $12–17
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- Get aroundThe Charles River Bike Path is a mostly off-road path that runs from Newton and Waltham east through Watertown, Boston, and Cambridge along both banks of the Charles River.
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Next door to Newton Centre, Massachusetts
Newton Centre, Massachusetts is 11 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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