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For any brief time you have available, • Eliot Burying Ground [1630] turn left at the Mass Ave. MBTA station, return via What to look for: Mature trees arch over streets and walking is the easiest, most pleasant and least • Owen Nawn Shop & Soap Factory [1815] Massachusetts Ave. form a leafy, shady introduction to brick row houses, stressful way to explore the area. • Dudley MBTA station [1901] dooryard gardens, and cast iron fences and railings. What to look for: Old and new houses on Pembroke • Dudley Heritage Wall - 2278 Washington Street Walking is a great way to discover your surroundings • Worcester Square - an original residential square Street lead to a premier linear park in the shadow of and community. One of the best ways to keep fit, it • Public Library - South End Branch Prudential Center; return through Chester Sq./Mass Ave. incorporates exercise into daily routines. You will • Rutland Street - one of the South End’s most beautiful, 4SOWA [South of Washington] Loop • Historic Franklin & Blackstone Squares [1801] return to the campus revitalized and refreshed, with with a large old elm mid-block • Pedestrianized streets at Villa Victoria enclave a clear mind. • Rutland Green - a formally planted pocket park 1.5 miles/30 minutes • Harriet Tubman Memorial Park • South End House & Children’s Art Center Go up Harrison Avenue to Berkeley Street and return • Braddock Park - original South End residential square Neighborhood walking lets you multi-task. You can • Haven Street - very quaint frame house via Washington Street. • Southwest Corridor Park - covering MBTA/Amtrak run errands, find places to eat, purchase unique or • Community Gardens at Rutland & Washington Sts. • Titus Sparrow Park - West Newton Street essential items. Everything is within walking distance. What to look for: The newest art gallery district in the • Oldest South End cemetery [1810], Washington and • Wally’s Cafe - 1950s jazz club, still open, 427 Mass Ave. You can walk with co-workers or meet up with family or city is found in warehouse buildings off Harrison Ave. E. Concord/Rutland Streets • Chester Square - largest original South End residential friends. You can even have a meeting while walking. • Brick power plant for W. End Street Railway Co. square, bisected by Mass Ave. in the 1960s The shortest walk can include a stop for a bite, or maybe [1896] - Harrison Ave. a rest to sit and people-watch. You’ll be surprised at 2Columbus Avenue Loop • SOWA arts and gallery district all you can get done—and you’ll get some exercise too. • Pine Street Inn - former fire station, yellow brick tower Longer Walks 1.5 miles/30 minutes • Red Fez - venerable restaurant, recently restored In an hour, you can cover more distance than you 3 miles/60-70 minutes Go up East Springfield Street to Columbus Avenue; • Peters Park - playing fields and courts might imagine. For example, the three long blocks from If you can do these, you’re a pro and can probably return via West Newton Street. • New condos and home stores on Washington St. Harrison Avenue to just beyond Tremont Street take find your way. These can be done before or after work, • Cathedral of the Holy Cross [1875] with its large 10-12 minutes to walk, and cover a half-mile. During a What to look for: Spacious Columbus Avenue was or on the weekend with friends and family! Here are collection of stained glass roundtrip of 20-25 minutes, you’ll walk one full mile! originally paved with wood blocks to quiet the clopping some examples that originate at the campus: of horses. It offers a more expansive look at historic The grid pattern of South End streets makes it easy to • Museum of Fine Arts/Northeastern University and houses amid the attractive leafiness of East and West 5Restaurant Row Loop get anywhere. You can go up one block and over two, the Back Bay Fens Springfield and West Newton Streets. or up two and over one, and so forth, always seeing 1.5 miles/30 minutes • Copley Square, Boylston and Newbury Streets • Hurley Elementary School - West Springfield St. something new and interesting. Watch out for confusing Go up Washington Street, left on Union Park Street to • South Bay Mall • Wellington Gardens - Wellington St./Columbus Ave. street names, as they frequently change on either Tremont Street; return via West Brookline Street. • Historic John Eliot Square in Roxbury • Lion statues - 511 Columbus Ave. side of Washington Street [the only land route into • Combine route #3 and #6 to create a 3-mile walk • Columbus Avenue restaurants What to look for: The culinary arts are on display on downtown before this area was filled]. • Union United Methodist Church [1872] with Titus Tremont Street near the Boston Center for the Arts. The South End is full of mature trees that shade its Sparrow Park behind Getting there, you’ll pass through exquisite Union Park. Resources streets, resulting from 1970s city tree planting • Harriet Tubman Square statues • Cathedral of the Holy Cross [1875] with its large • southend.org - calendar, stories, neighborhood orgs programs. The tradition of greenery dates back to • Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center - Art Gallery collection of stained glass • cityofboston.gov/neighborhoods/general.asp?id=18 - 1795 when Charles Bulfinch laid out Blackstone and • Historic Blackstone & Franklin Squares [1801] • Washington Street shops and restaurants organizations, contacts, public buildings Franklin Squares. Street names came from towns in • Union Park [1850] - original residential square • southendhistoricalsociety.org - history, buildings, Massachusetts that were being connected by railroads • Boston Center for the Arts & Calderwood Theatre preservation when the South End was being filled and planned. 3Dudley Square Loop • Tremont Street Restaurant Row and shops • useaboston.com - artists’ open studios • Villa Victoria - a Latino community enclave with a Here are some samples of 1- to 3-mile walks. There’s 1.5 miles/30 minutes • WalkBoston: Walking Tours of Boston’s Unique colorful ceramic mural honoring Puerto Rican heroes a great deal to see in the South End, so plan your Follow Washington Street to Dudley Square; return via Neighborhoods [two in the South End] through walks, raise your sights and walk farther each time Harrison Avenue. bookstores, WalkBoston [617.367.9255]. you venture out. Map/Ken Dumas Text/Bob Sloane Design/Nina Garfinkle.