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Boston: Outer Neighborhoods Maps

Boston: Outer Neighborhoods Maps

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One of the many benefits of walking is that you see and experience things you’d miss using other modes of travel. And the best way to enjoy them is with a WalkBoston map.

Our maps feature places that are wonderful to walk, easy to navigate, and convenient to get around. Each one is created by those know the territory best – people who live there or are expert in a walk’s particular theme or topic.

Each has a self-guided walk with a detailed route, distances and descriptions of sights and scenes. Download one or all of them from this site, or join WalkBoston and request the maps you want – printed on heavy paper in our distinctive colors. Or join us on one of our guided walks.

These maps explore the neighborhoods of Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, Roslindale, and Roxbury–all south of Boston’s urban core.

Click on a push pin to get a link to the local map, and then go take a walk!


Click for “WalkBoston – Boston’s Outer Neighborhoods Walking Map” and more maps on Google Maps

Boston’s Financial District Walking Map

Boston’s Financial District Walking Map

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From the Parthenon through Palladio to the Paris of Napoleon III and Beyond. Meander through the narrow and crooked streets of Boston’s downtown, in search of Greek temples, Egyptian gateways, French Second Empire commercial palaces, and Art Deco towers. We will view the site of Bulfinch’s Tontine Crescent, as well as a building modeled on the Tontine’s center pavilion. Among 20 featured stops will be the Stock Exchange Building, Custom House, New England Telephone Headquarters Building, the Old South Meeting House, and Old City Hall. .

Click for “Boston Financial District Walking Map” PDF


Click for “WalkBoston – Boston’s Financial District Walking Map” on Google Maps

Boston: Roslindale Village Walking Map

Boston: Roslindale Village Walking Map

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Hills and dales are the setting for the Victorian residential neighborhoods and the commerce comprising Roslindale Village. Once hilly farmland traced by rural roadways, Roslindale is now in the midst of the urban area. Generous green spaces, hills and narrow streets keep traffic from overwhelming most village thoroughfares, allowing quiet enclaves for daily life.

Roslindale was largely a rural area when annexed to Boston in 1874. The major thoroughfare was the Post Road (now Centre Street) between Boston and Dedham. Washington St. was laid out in 1804 as the Dedham Turnpike, with tolls paid along the way. Taft’s Tavern stood on the turnpike at what became Roslindale Sq.

Click for “Roslindale Village Walking Map” PDF


Click for “WalkBoston’s Roslindale Village Walking Map” on Google maps

 

Boston: Washington Street Walking Map

Boston: Washington Street Walking Map

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From Dudley Square to Chinatown, Washington Street is in the midst of an astonishing small-business and real-estate revival that is bringing new life and vitality to this historic part of the city. In colonial times Washington St was a narrow land bridge connecting Boston proper, which lay out on a peninsula, to the mainland behind. Boston Neck, as it was called, was not more than 100 feet wide at some points. When the early 19th century saw overcrowding of the city’s center, city business and government began to fill in the marshland along both sides of the Neck. New Chinese immigrants settled the land around the train station at the northern edge, and wealthy merchants built elegant town houses to the south. The financial panic of the 1870s led to the exodus of wealthy families. An elevated rapid transit train was constructed down the center in 1899 and did little to enhance the area’s appeal. The dismantling of the El in the 1980s finally set the stage for redevelopment.


Click for “WalkBoston – Boston’s Washington Street Walking Map” on Google Maps