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BEACON HILL AND
WEST END

Beacon Hill was developed from pasture- late 19th century, while the north slope
land in the 1790s. The south slope, facing and West End degen erated. Urban renewal
Boston Common, became the main seat of in the 1950s and 1960s cleared away the
Boston wealth and power, while the north slums and coherent neighborhood of the
slope and the land rolling down to the West End, while gentrification of the north
mouth of the Charles River, known as the slope made even the most modest homes
West End, became pop ulated by tradesmen, on Beacon Hill highly desirable, and
servants, and free blacks. South-slope this neighborhood one of Boston’s
Beacon Hill retained its cachet into the most picturesque.

Sights at a Glance
Historic Streets and Squares
1 Charles Street
2 Louisburg Square
3 Mount Vernon Street
6 Beacon Street
Historic Buildings, Churches,
and Museums See Street Finder map 1
4 Nichols House Museum
5 Hepzibah Swan Houses Science Park 0 meters 250
8 Park Street Church 0 yards 250
0 Boston Athenaeum MARTHA ROAD
q Massachusetts State
House pp52–3
w Museum of African CHARLES STREET LOWELL STREET
American History WEST
e Otis House Museum Charles River BLOSSOM STREET END
CHARLESBANK
r Old West Church PARK
t Massachusetts General Hospital CARDINAL O’CO N N ELL WAY
y Museum of Science STANIFORD STREET
and Science Park FRUIT ST
PARKMAN ST BLOSSOM STREET
Parks and Cemeteries NORTH GROVE ST
7 Boston Common and LONGFELLOW Charles/ ANDERSON ST
Public Garden pp48–9 BRIDGE M.G.H. CA M B R ID GE ST RE E T
CAMBRIDGE ST
9 Old Granary Burying Ground
PHILLIPS STREET GARDEN STREET IRVING STREET SOUTH RUSSEL ST JOY STREET HANCOCK ST RIDGEWAY LANE TEMPLE STREET BOWDOIN STREET
EMBANKMENT ROAD CHARLES ST BEACON HILL DERNE STREET
GROVE STREET
REVERE STREET
MYRTLE STREET
WEST CEDAR ST
PINCKNEY STREET
Restaurants pp142–3 JOY STREET
1 75 Chestnut CEDAR LN WAY MOUNT VERNON ST
2 Anna’s Taqueria CHESTNUT STREET WALNUT ST
3 Artú LIME ST BEACON STREET PARK ST
7 •15
4 Beacon Hill Bistro MT. VERNON ST RIVER ST
5 Bin 26 Enoteca CHESTNUT ST BYRON ST Park Street
Frog
6 Cheers BEAVER PL Pond
7 Figs BEACON STREET
8 Grotto BOSTON
9 Harvard Gardens PUBLIC CHARLES STREET COMMON
10 King and I
11 Lala Rokh GARDEN TREMONT STREET
12 No. 9 Park ARLINGTON STREET
13 Panificio
14 Scampo PARK Boylston
15 The Paramount SQUARE
16 Tip Tap Room Arlington BOYLSTON STREET
17 Toscano Restaurant
Bronze statue of George Washington in Boston’s Public Garden For keys to symbols see back flap
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