Nonantum
Nonantum, also known as Silver Lake or The Lake, is one of the thirteen villages within the city of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located along the Charles River at the site of a former lake.
Nonantum, also known as Silver Lake or The Lake, is one of the thirteen villages within the city of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located along the Charles River at the site of a former lake. The village is one of the centers of Italian population in Newton. The commercial area has numerous restaurants and food establishments featuring Italian cuisine.
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Worth seeing in and around Nonantum
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.
- 01Bentley University
Bentley University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.
3.2 km · private university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 02Boston 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.
2.4 km · law school of Boston College · Wikipedia - 03Armenian Museum of America
The Armenian Museum of America, located in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, is an institution that has the largest collection of Armenian artifacts in North America.
1.4 km · museum in Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S. · Wikipedia - 04Crystal 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.
3.9 km · lake in Newton, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 05Beaver Brook Reservation
Beaver Brook Reservation is a public recreation area covering 303 acres on the dividing line between the town of Belmont and the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. The state park is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
2.8 km · state park · Wikipedia - 06St. Stephen's Armenian Apostolic Church
St. Stephen's Armenian Apostolic Church, also known as Soorp Stepanos Church, is an Armenian Apostolic church in Watertown, Massachusetts.
3.7 km · church in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 07First Church of Christ, Scientist
The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1940, is an historic Christian Science church building located at 391 Walnut Street on the corner of Otis Street in the village of Newtonville, in Newton, Massachusetts. It was designed in the redbrick Colonial Revival style by Densmore, LeClear and Robbins, architects.
1.7 km · church building in Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia - 08Peirce School
The Peirce School is a historic school building at 88 Chestnut Street, corner of Austin Street, in West Newton, Massachusetts. The brick building was built in 1895 and operated by the Newton Public Schools as an elementary school from 1895 until June 1951.
2.5 km · historic school building in West Newton, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 09Gore Place
Gore Place is a historic country house, now a museum, located at 52 Gore Street, Waltham, Massachusetts. It is owned and operated by the nonprofit Gore Place Society.
1.3 km · Waltham, Massachusetts house · Wikipedia - 10Reginald A. Fessenden House
The Reginald A. Fessenden House is a historic house in the village of Chestnut Hill in Newton, Massachusetts. It was the residence from 1919 to his death in 1932 of the inventor Reginald A. Fessenden, called "the father of radio broadcasting," because he was the first to broadcast the human voice and music by radio.
3.6 km · historic house in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nonantum
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 16 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 73 km · Bradley (BDL), 131 km
- Stations
- Boston College station, 3.8 km · Newton Centre station, 3.8 km · Waltham station, 3.1 km · West Newton station, 2.9 km · Newtonville station, 1.2 km
- Providence/Warwick → Nonantum76 km · quickest by road, 2h · $7–10
- Portland → Nonantum4065 km · quickest by air, 9h 18m · $460–710
- Hartford → Nonantum139 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · $12–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Nonantum
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 Nonantum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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 Nonantum
Nonantum is 12 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Newton Centrevillage of Newton, Massachusetts, USA3.6 km
- Newtonvillevillage in Massachusetts1.4 km
- Watertown Arsenalhistoric district in Watertown, Massachusetts3 km