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Boston Post Road Historic District: Boston Post Road Historic District: February 11, 1983 : Both sides of the Boston Post Rd. from Plain Rd. to Stony Brook: Weston: 3: Case's Corner Historic District: Case's Corner Historic District: September 12, 2002
The National Register of Historic Places is a United States federal official list of places and sites considered worthy of preservation. In the state of Massachusetts , there are over 4,300 listings, representing about 5% of all NRHP listings nationwide and the second-most of any U.S. state, behind only New York .
Weston was incorporated in 1713, and protection of the town's historic resources is driven by the Weston Historical Commission [2] and Weston Historical Society. [3] The town has one Local Historic District, 10 National Register Districts, 26 Historic Areas, and seven houses individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [4]
The historic district extends for the entire length of US 20, some 3-1/2 miles. It also includes a segment of post road that passes through the town center, which was bypassed in 1931. The district is more than 750 acres (300 ha), and includes properties that are generally widely spaced in the eastern and western reaches, with a cluster of ...
Case's Corner Historic District is a residential, civic, and rural historic district in the geographic center of Weston, Massachusetts.The district is centered on the four-way intersection of School, Wellesley, Newton and Ash Streets in Weston, Massachusetts, and runs mainly along Wellesley Street, which runs north-south through the district between the centers of Weston and Wellesley.
WESTON — Construction is underway in the town's historic center for what will be Weston's first restaurant that will serve alcohol since Prohibition. ... back the Weston Historical Society ...
Most of the district's properties line North Avenue, with an extension on Church Street to including the historic station building there, and along Viles Street and Brooks Road to include a small industrial area. [3] The Weston area was first settled in the 17th century, when it was part of Watertown, and North Avenue was one of the locuses of ...
The area of Silver Hill and Westland Roads was formally laid out in 1905, while Merriam Street is a very old country road which had seen some development in the 1890s. The houses in the district are predominantly Colonial Revival and Queen Anne in their styling, a relative rarity in Weston although common in other Boston suburbs. [2]