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| 1 MGH: Wonderful walking routes and sites and routes walking Wonderful MGH: MGH: Wonderful walking routes & sites 1The Ducklings Walk additions] and a yellow tail [1889 building at rear].” • Science Park - built on original dam that ended • Vilna Shul [1919] City’s oldest synagogue - 18 Phillips St. tides and flooding of the river Boston is called “America’s Walking City” with good 1.5 miles/40-55 minutes • Charles River vista to MIT down Pinckney St. • Navigation locks - allows boats access to the river reason. The city has compact, lively neighborhoods From the main lobby, follow N. Grove St. to a right onto • Aristocratic Louisburg Square - home of Sen. John Kerry • Charlesbank playing fields, playground and pool that exude history from sites of major events in the Cambridge St. and cross Charles St. The footbridge • Bulfinch House [1802] 85 Mt. Vernon St. nation’s past. Massachusetts General Hospital beyond the T Station will bring you to the river. Stroll • Mt. Vernon St., 51, 53, 55, 57 Architect: Bulfinch 5Paul Revere’s Landing [MGH] is located in the midst of many routes— past the Hatch Shell performance stage and along the • Nichols House Museum [1804] 55 Mt. Vernon St. across the street from historic Beacon Hill, with Esplanade and take the Arthur Fiedler footbridge back • Boston Common - oldest public park in the U.S. 2 miles/60-70 minutes its rosy brick buildings, steep hills and narrow to Beacon St. Slip into the Public Garden, then make • Afro-American History Museum & African Meeting From the Gray-Bigelow lobby, follow Blossom St., cobblestone streets and alleyways; adjacent to the your way back past the charming restaurants and gift House [1806] Smith Court O’Connell Way, Staniford and Causeway Sts. After Charles River Esplanade with its beautiful views shops of Charles St. North Station and the park, make a left to Lovejoy and open spaces; and within walking distance of Wharf and cross the Charles River Dam and locks. In What to look for: If the ducklings could walk this route, the historic and venerable parts of downtown 3Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market Paul Revere Park go to the highest point to see his so can you! See where the ducklings were born, grew Boston, including the Boston Common and Public view. Return the same way. 1.8 miles/45-60 minutes Garden, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere’s Landing, and fat, grew up, and walked from the river to their new home From the main lobby, follow N. Grove St. to Cambridge What to look for: Walk through a bit of downtown the Make Way for Ducklings statues. through the “Flat” of Beacon Hill down Charles Street. • Make Way for Ducklings island - Charles River island - St. Turn left and pass the large brick City Hall Plaza. over and along the Big Dig [Boston’s enormous where they grew fat Keeping right of City Hall go down to Congress St. Cross project that put the elevated highway underground], • Community Boating, Inc. - sailboat training for all into Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market. Return the same way. crossing the Charles River Dam to see Paul Revere’s MGH campus historic post. Here Revere watched the Old North • Hatch Shell - site of Boston’s 4th of July celebration What to look for: Once through the modern city, you Church tower, waiting for the sexton to reveal the MGH is so vast it forms its own neighborhood. • Arthur Fiedler Statue - in memory of BSO conductor will arrive at the Colonial center of Boston. Faneuil Hall Lexington/Concord route the British troops would use Within its facilities, the long hallways encourage • The “Cheers” Bull & Finch Pub and Quincy Market’s parallel buildings and street layout —“one [lantern] if by land, two if by sea.” You also get indoor walking – useful in wet weather. As you tour • Swan Boats are architecturally significant and have been adapted to the best up-close view of the magnificent Zakim Bridge. the grounds, don’t miss the beautiful Bulfinch • Public Garden Lagoon - where the ducklings grew up feature shops, restaurants and outdoor entertainment. • St. Joseph’s Church [1862] Building [1816] – MGH’s oldest – designed by • Make Way for Ducklings statues • Otis House Museum [1796] Federalist home • TD Banknorth Garden - sports arena architect Charles Bulfinch. From the taller buildings, • Charles St. Meetinghouse [1802] at Mt. Vernon St. • Old West Church [1806] • Leonard Zakim Bridge - striking result of the Big Dig look down to the Charles River embankment’s • Boston City Hall [1968] Brutalist architecture at its • Charles River Dam & Locks with interactive music network of walking paths, which you’ll want to best [or worst]; look for Old North church in distance Beacon Hill/Common/State House • Paul Revere’s vantage point - where he saw the Old check out on foot. All walks start from MGH. 2 • Faneuil Hall [1742] revolutionary meeting place North Church lanterns in 1775 1.5 miles/45-60 minutes/hilly • Quincy Market [1826] first food court ever built From the main lobby, follow N. Grove St. crossing • Freedom Trail - passes through Faneuil Hall 55A Old Ironsides extension Why walk Cambridge St. to Phillips St. Pass the Vilna Shul, zigzag through the quaint streets over the hill, turning onto Walking is one of the best ways to discover new 4Charles Riverfront/Esplanade .8 mile extension/20-30 minutes neighborhoods, stay fit, and incorporate exercise Louisburg Square. At Mt. Vernon Street, make your From the high point of Paul Revere Park, you can see into your day. You can cover a lot of distance by way to Beacon Street. Behind the State House, turn 2 miles/60-70 minutes the underpass leading to Boston Harbor. Follow that walking a few minutes in any direction — in 15-20 right on Joy St. to see the African Meeting House on From the main lobby, follow N. Grove St., cross Cambridge walkway next to the harbor into the Navy Yard. Old minutes you can walk a half-mile. After a round trip Smith Court. Return via Cambridge Street. St., and turn right to the sidewalk and to the bridge Ironsides will be on your right. Return the same way. over the river. On the Cambridge side loop left above of 30-40 minutes, you’ll return feeling revitalized What to look for: Beacon Hill’s aristocratic hilltop and What to look for: Old Ironsides sits in the Memorial Drive and cross safely at the signal. Walk along and refreshed. south slope facing Boston Common were settled early Charlestown Navy Yard [1800], a National Historic the riverfront and past the Museum of Science. Cross —long before immigrants settled on its north slope. A Site. Nearby are shipbuilding facilities and an These walks are just a start. Once you’re comfort- back to Boston via the Blossom St. footbridge to MGH. able, you can set out on your own to explore all the densely developed neighborhood with scant parking ancient dry dock. wonderful neighborhoods of Boston! and a high proportion of walkers, the Hill includes What to look for: Looping into Cambridge offers the • Frigate U.S.S. Constitution [Old Ironsides] oldest elegant Louisburg Square and Bulfinch’s magnificent best views of Boston’s skyline and riverfront. ship afloat [1797] daily cannon salute 8am & sunset State House, described by historian Walter Whitehill as • Longfellow Bridge - called the salt & pepper bridge • U.S.S. Cassin Young – WW2 destroyer “a very odd fowl … with a golden topknot [dome], a red • Boston skyline & riverfront Esplanade • U.S.S. Constitution Museum Map: Ken Dumas Text: Bob Sloane Design: Nina Garfinkle | Garfinkle Design breast [1798 brick front], white wings [two major 1914 • Museum of Science - great for kids, Omni theatre • Dry Dock No. 1