Old Ship Street Historic District
The Old Ship Street Historic District is a historic district on both sides of Pleasant St.
The Old Ship Street Historic District is a historic district on both sides of Pleasant St. from Riverside Ave. to Park Street in Medford, Massachusetts. The district is based around the shipyard established in 1803 by Thatcher Magoun, which operated into the 1870s. None of the industrial shipyard facilities have survived, leaving the area as a predominantly residential area. Most of the housing in the area derives from the first few decades of the shipyard's existence, resulting in a significant number of Federal and Greek Revival houses, built roughly between 1803 and 1855.
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Worth seeing in and around Old Ship Street 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.
- 01Tufts 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.
1.8 km · private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 02The 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.
1.9 km · Tufts University school of international relations and law · Wikipedia - 03Porter 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.
3.4 km · square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia - 04Converse 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.
3.1 km · library in Malden, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 05Davis 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 - 06St. James Episcopal Church
St. James's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church at 1991 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
3.3 km · church in Cambridge, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 07North Avenue Congregational Church
North Avenue Congregational Church is a historic church meetinghouse at 1801 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was completely renovated in 2015 to become a library for Lesley University.
3.6 km · church building in Cambridge, United States of America · Wikipedia - 08Prince Hall Mystic Cemetery
The Prince Hall Mystic Cemetery, also known as the Prince Hall Cemetery, is a historic cemetery located on Gardner Street, Arlington, Massachusetts, United States. It may be the only remaining African American Masonic cemetery in the United States.
2.9 km · historic cemetery in Arlington, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 09Odd Fellows Building
The Odd Fellows Building is a historic commercial building in Malden, Massachusetts. The four story steel and masonry building was built in 1907 to a design by Louis C. Newhall for the local chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows.
3.1 km · building in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 10Waitt Brick Block
The Waite Brick Block is a historic commercial building at 422-424 Main Street in Malden, Massachusetts. Built in 1848, it is the oldest brick building in the city.
3 km · building in Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Old Ship Street Historic District
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 10 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 81 km · Bradley (BDL), 141 km
- Stations
- Alewife station, 4 km · Davis station, 2.8 km · Malden Center station, 2.5 km · Ball Square station, 2 km · Medford/Tufts station, 1.6 km
- Providence/Warwick → Old Ship Street Historic District85 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · $8–12
- Portland → Old Ship Street Historic District4071 km · quickest by air, 9h · $450–680
- Hartford → Old Ship Street Historic District150 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · $13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Old Ship Street Historic District
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 Old Ship Street Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe F4 water taxi runs between Long Wharf and the Charlestown Navy Yard.
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Old Ship Street Historic District is 7 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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