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The river is crossed by Adams Street, which roughly bisects the district. The district is bounded on the south by the MBTA rail right-of-way in Milton and River, Washington, and Adams Streets in Dorchester. [2] The historic district includes sixteen industrial buildings, all but one of which were directly associated with Water Baker & Company.
To the north is the Fields Corner Municipal Building (1874, now housing professional offices), located at 195 Adams Street on the corner of Arcadia Street, and, a short walk up Adams Street, Ronan Park, an 11-acre hilltop park with a gorgeous view to Dorchester Bay. Residential areas such as Meetinghouse Hill, Clam Point, Melville Park surround ...
The Fields Corner Municipal Building is a historic municipal building at 1 Arcadia Street and 195 Adams Street in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1875, it is a prominent local example of Victorian Gothic architecture, probably designed by the city's first official architect, George A. Clough. The building ...
The pedestrian tunnel from Charles Street was controversially closed in January 1970 due to crime and vandalism. [3] In the mid-1980s, the platforms were extended for six-car trains, which were introduced in 1988. [2] The MBTA issued a $4.3 million design contract for renovations of Ashmont, Shawmut, and Fields Corner stations on May 3, 2001.
The Eire Pub is an Irish pub in Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S., located at 795 Adams Street.. President Ronald Reagan and then future president Bill Clinton both visited the pub; since then, stopping at Eire Pub has become a superstition for political candidates hoping to follow in Reagan and Clinton's footsteps.
Southeast corner of town was part of the Dorchester New Grant of 1637. Deerfield: 1673: Land was granted to Dedham in return for giving up Natick. [5] Needham: 1711: Medway: 1713: Separated from Medfield. The land was granted to Dedham in 1649. [6] Bellingham: 1719: Walpole: 1724: Stoughton: 1726: Part of the Dorchester New Grant of 1637 ...
The Impressionist painter Childe Hassam, who grew up on Olney Street, enthused about the area: "Dorchester was a most beautiful and pleasant place for a boy to grow up and go to school—from Meeting House Hill and Milton Hill looking out on Dorchester Bay and Boston Harbor with the white sails and the blue water of our clear and radiant North ...
Dorchester Park is a historic park bounded by Dorchester Avenue, Richmond, Adams and Richview Streets in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The park was designed by Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot , and constructed in 1891, as part of Boston's Emerald Necklace of parks first conceived by the elder Frederick Law Olmsted .