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NORTH END AND THE
WATERFRONT

This was Boston’s first neighborhood, and transformed into luxury apartment blocks
one that has been key to the city’s fortunes. and offices. Away from the waterfront, the
Fringed by numerous wharves, the area narrow streets of the North End have
prospered initially through shipping and historically been home to European immi-
shipbuilding, with much of America’s early grants, drawn by the availability of work. An
trade passing through its warehouses. The Italian immigrant neighborhood through
more recent importance of finance and much of the 20th century, it retains an
high-tech industries, however, has seen Italian-American flavor in its many cafés,
the waterfront evolve; its old warehouses restaurants, and specialty shops.

NORTH END
PLAYGROUND
Charlestown
Bridge
KEANY C OMMERCIAL S TR EET Battery
SNOWHILL ST SALEM ST Wharf See Street Finder map 2
CHARTER STREET
HULL STREET
SHEAFE ST
Wharf
NORTH HANOVER STREET HANOVER Lincoln Restaurants pp144–5
SQUARE PRINCE STREE T
END TILESTON ST AVE. 1 Antico Forno
THATCHER ST MARGIN ST PRINCE ST CLARK ST Sargents Union 2 Barking Crab
Wharf
STREET
N BENNETT
3 Bricco
COMMERCIAL STREET
NOR T H STREET
GARDEN CT.
Wharf
LYNN ST
5 Dino’s Café
WASHINGTON ST
ENDICOTT ST
SALEM ST HANOVER ST Wharf 7 Giacomo’s Ristorante
COMMERCIAL STREET
STILLMAN ST PARMENTER ST FLEET ST EASTERN AVE. 4 Carmen
6 Ernesto’s Pizzeria
Lewis
Haymarket RICHMOND STREET FULTON STREET ATLA N TIC AVENUE 8 James Hook & Co.
9 La Famiglia Giorgio
Wharf
11 Maurizio’s Ristorante
Sights at a Glance CHRISTOPHER Commercial 10 Legal Harborside
Italiano
COLUMBUS PARK
Historic Sites and Churches WATERFRONT 12 Menton
1 Copp’s Hill Burying Ground Long Wharf 13 Meritage
2 Clough House Aquarium 14 Neptune Oyster
3 Old North Church p73 15 Pizzeria Regina
4 Paul Revere Mall ATLANTIC AVE NU E Central 16 Prezza
Wharf
5 St. Stephen’s Church 17 Scopa
6 Paul Revere House 18 Sportello
19 State Street Provisions
Waterfront Sights 20 Terramia
7 Christopher Columbus Park 21 Trade
8 Long Wharf Rowes 22 Yankee Lobster
Wharf
9 New England Aquarium pp78–9 Company
0 Rowes Wharf
q Institute of Contemporary Art
ATL ANTI C AV E N U E Moakley Bridge
w Boston Tea Party Ships AT LAN T I C AV E N UE Northern Ave
& Museum Bridge
e Children’s Museum
Evelyn
South Station S E A P O 700 yards
N O R T H E R N A V E N U E
CONGRESS ST
THOMSON PL
Congress SLEEPER ST 1000 yards
St Bridge
0 meters 450 FARNSWORTH ST R T B O U L E VA R D
Summer
0 yards 450 St Bridge
S U M M E R S T R E E T
The redeveloped Rowes Wharf with the iconic archway For keys to symbols see back flap
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