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Historic district in Massachusetts, United States

Nobility Hill Historic District

The Nobility Hill Historic District is a residential historic district roughly bounded by Chestnut and Maple Streets and Cedar Avenue in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

The place

The Nobility Hill Historic District is a residential historic district roughly bounded by Chestnut and Maple Streets and Cedar Avenue in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The district includes a number of high quality houses representing a cross section of fashionable housing built between 1860 and 1920. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nobility Hill 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
    Stone Zoo

    Stone Zoo is a medium- to small-sized zoo of about 26 acres in Stoneham, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1905, the zoo includes low-lying areas densely developed with smaller exhibits for animals as well as rocky forested hillsides devoted to larger habitats for Species Survival Plan programs.

    2.1 km · zoo in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Spot Pond

    Spot Pond is a lake in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The pond is within the Middlesex Fells Reservation, a Massachusetts state park.

    2.7 km · lake of the United States of America · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Charles Winship House

    The Charles Winship House was a historic house located at 13 Mansion Road and 10 Mansion Road in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story mansion was built between 1901 and 1906 for Charles Winship, proprietor of the Harvard Knitting Mills, a major business presence in Wakefield from the 1880s to the 1940s.

    2.6 km · building in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Mary's Catholic Church

    St. Mary's Catholic Church is a parish church of the Catholic Church in Winchester, Massachusetts, within the Archdiocese of Boston.

    3.6 km · church building in Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    First Congregational Church

    The First Congregational Church is an historic church in Stoneham, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1840, it is a fine local example of Greek Revival architecture, and is a landmark in the town center.

    500 m · church in Stoneham, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    First Unitarian Church

    The First Unitarian Church is a historic former church building in Stoneham, Massachusetts. One of Stoneham's more stylish Gothic Revival buildings, the Stick style wood structure was built in 1869 for a Unitarian congregation that was organized in 1858.

    600 m · church in Stoneham, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Jonathan Green House

    The Jonathan Green House is a historic First Period Colonial American house, built c. 1700–1720.

    2.5 km · building in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Elizabeth Boit House

    The Elizabeth Boit House is a historic house at 127 Chestnut Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Boit, co-founder of the Harvard Knitting Mills, also built on the west side, creating an estate compound on the summit of Cowdry's Hill that included three residences, formal gardens, a playhouse, and greenhouse.

    3.1 km · historic house in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

    The Lucius Beebe Memorial Library is the library for the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts. The building that currently holds the town's main library was opened in 1923 and is named after the first library commissioner.

    3.9 km · library building in Wakefield, Massachusetts opened in 1923 · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Flanley's Block

    Flanley's Block is a historic commercial building at 349–353 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, US. Built about 1895, it is a well-preserved local example of late 19th-century Italianate commercial architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

    3.9 km · building in Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Nobility Hill Historic District

Airports
Boston Logan (BOS), 15 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 88 km · Bradley (BDL), 144 km
Stations
Melrose/Cedar Park station, 3.7 km · Greenwood station, 3.1 km · Melrose Highlands station, 3.2 km · Wakefield station, 3.5 km · Winchester Highlands station, 2.5 km
  • Providence/Warwick → Nobility Hill Historic District
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · $9–13
  • Portland → Nobility Hill Historic District
    4067 km · quickest by air, 9h 16m · $460–700
  • Hartford → Nobility Hill Historic District
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · $14–19
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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 Nobility Hill 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 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    254 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    265 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,744 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,760 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,861 km

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Around it

Next door to Nobility Hill Historic District

Nobility Hill Historic District is 14 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.