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Downtown Boston Detailed CHARLESTOWN Palermo 37 Attractions/Points of Interest Gore St St Cambridge St St Benjamin Franklin’sMax Birthplace . .16 Constitution 36 Lincoln St 1 Plaza BostonSt City Hall . .25 Lechmere 93 Boston Massacre Site . .23 Msgr O'Brien Highway W East St ebster Ave Willow St Boston Public Library . Eight. St . .4 BOSTON Boston Tea Party Ship . .11 Leonard P. Zakim/Bunker First St Bunker Hill Monument . .37 Judge Gilmore Bridge Hill Memorial Bridge Union St Windsor St Boston Inner Harbor CAMBRIDGE Charlestown Bridge Children’s Museum . .12 CambridgeSide Industrial Park Rd Copp’s Hill Burying Ground . .31 Galleria 28 Custom House . .24 Mall Plymouth U.S. Coast Faneuil Hall Marketplace . .27 St North End Guard Base Sixth St Portsmouth Fifth St Playground Constitution Berkshire St Fenway Park . .Fulkerson . St . .1 Commercial St Wharf Market St St Fleet Center . .32 1 Charter Hatch Shell . .7 Lopez P NORTH St Bristol Binney St 35 93 END Historic Faneuil Hall . .26 Land Blvd 31 St Battery Nashua CommercialP St Henchman St Way Prince St Hull St Foster StCharter St Wharf Clark St Hynes Convention Center . .2 toll John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse .13 Bent St Science Accolon North N. Washington St 3 Lovejoy Pl Snow Hill St 30 Second St Park St John Hancock Tower . .6 Station Medford St Binney St Way N. Mar St Battery St Cleveland Pl Hanover St John McCormack State Office Building . .17 Martha Rd Cardinal Medeiros Ave 3 Salutation St P Unity Cambridge Pkwy gin St Salem St T King’s Chapel . .18 32 NorNorthth N. Bennettileston St St Sumner Tunnel Moore St 28 P Harris St Massachusetts Transportation Building . .8 Binney St Lomasney Way Station St 1A Davis St Haverhill St Clark St Callahan Tunnel Endicott St Margin St Museum of Science . .35 Thatcher Prince St St Commercial Union P Canal St Wharf New England Aquarium . .28 33 CausewayFriend St St Fleet Old CityBroadway Hall . .19 Lancaster StPortland St P Potter St North Sargent's Wharf Cooper St Eastern Old Corner Book Store . .20 Athenaeum Charles St P WEST Bartlett St Charlesbank Blossom Parm Garden Lewis St Ave Old Granary Burying Ground . .15 St END Court StMoon St Playground St Blossom Ct alenti Way Stillman enter Portland St Old North Church . .30 Merrimac St V 29 Blossom St HaHaymarketymarket North St Old SouthGalileo Way MeetingMid-Block House . .21 Wm. Cardinal Market Salem St O'Connel St Main St Connector Lewis Old State House . .22 34 Blackstone StCross St Wharf Staniford St Richmond St P Hanover St Fulton St Paul Revere House . .29 Bowker North St Main St Fruit St New HawkinsChardon St Prudential Center . .3 Way P Parkman St Registry of Motor Vehicles . .9 Longfellow Bridge ic Ave Dock St 3 Fulton St Commercial Wharf adsworth Osborn St nt South Station . .10 P Hanover la W Commer cial St P P Marshall Union St N. Grove St At Carleton St New Sudbury St Christopher Ames St State House . .14 Grove St Cambridge St Bowdoin P Ander son St Columbus Congress St Charles/MGH S. Russell St 3 North StClinton St Waterfront To Edward W. Brooke County Court House . .34 Ridgeway Ln Charles St Excursion and Harvard Square Hancock St 93 Park whale watch cruises Joy St T Amherst St Irving St Garden St Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Federal Office . .33 emple St Phillips St P 27 Trinity Church . .5 25 Long Wharf Cedar St 26 1 W. USS Constitution (“Old Ironsides”) . .36 Government Atlantic Ave Aquarium Revere St 17 ChathamIndia St St Central Massachusetts Ave Myrtle St Center Court St State Central Artery Wharf W. Ashburton State St 24 Bowdoin St 28 Pinckney St Pl Kilby St Massachusetts Cedar St Congress St P Cedar Ln Milk St PinckneyRiv Institute of Community St Joy 23 Central St P Court 22 St BEACON HILL Boating Square India St Technology Somerset St 0 .15 km er St P 3 28 i India Vernon St 18 ater St W 19 Wharf Mt School St 20 Hawes St W Milk St alnut St 14 Broad St East India Row Battery Amherst St Water St Brimmer Park St Devonshire St Danforth St Spruce StChestnut St march St remont St Oliver St Embankment Rd 15 T 21 0 SCALE .25 mi Bromfield St Lime St Milk St Milk St Rowes Wharf Pearl St Memorial Dr Brimmer St River St Congress Branch St Beacon St Federal St 16 High St P 7 P Park St Franklin Ferries to South Shore Chestnut St P and Logan Airport Byron St Frog Pond Franklin St P Oliver StP Beaver Pl (seasonal ice skating) i Winter St P Harvard Bridge T St Devonshire St 28 Boston Common emple Pl Downtown St Pearl St Arlington St Visitor Information Crossing W 28 Center est St P Pedestrians Only Charles St Summer St Charles River BerkeleyBeacon St St Arch St 28 Boston Common Pedestrian Pl Purchase St Mall Otis St 13 Clarendon St High St Northern Ave Public Marlborough St P ashington St St Atlantic Ave P A P Federal Garden remont St W venue De Lafayette Devonshire P T Dartmouth St Swan Congress St Seaport Ave 2 Avery St Chauncy St Kingston St Kingston St P 2A Boats Bedford St Russia 30 Hayward Pl P Wharf Exeter St P South P Chinatown Station Edinboro St Harrison Ext Ping On St Boylston St Boylston Oxford St Summer St James J. StorrowFairfield St Dr Essex St Commonwealth Ave Lincoln St Fort PointChannel BACK Newbury St Boylston Essex St 10 Sleeper St Arlington 9 T 11 12 Gloucester St BAY 28 ufts St LaGrange St P East St Broadway P Beach St P South Hereford St Park Plaza Station 8 Farnsworth St Arlington St Kneeland St W Atlantic Ave Congress St 2 P Charles St South Beacon St P arrenton St P 30 CHINATOWN Beach P St SOUTH Pittsburg St St James Ave Hudson St Columbus Ave P Massachusetts Ave Stuart St Stillings St Copley Lincoln St Utica St BOSTON Marlborough St remont St Kneeland St 5 T New England Melcher St Summer St Copley South St Bay State Rd P Medical Center Necco Ct Square T Piedmont St rinity Pl Ash St Beacon St 4 P Church Dartmouth St P Winchester St Commonwealth Ave 6 P St P A St Kenmore Stuart St Nassau Square 30 2 Berkeley St St P P Blagden St Isabella St St yler St Fayette St W. T Charlesgate E Charlesgate 3 Stanhope St Melrose Oak St Charlesgate W Charlesgate 28 P Harrison Ave Newbury St P P remont St LEGEND Boylston St P T Oak St Hynes Convention 2 Rapid transit line & station MassPike Cazenove St. ashington St Dorchester Ave (private way) Center/ICA Mt. Washington Ave W Marginal RdW Charles 90 ormwood St Ipswich St Herald St Commuter rail line Cambria St P Back Bay Shawmut Ave MassPike P South End P Chandler St 90 FENWAY Scotia St Dalton St Freedom TrailBinford St Harc St St P 1 Garrison Boylston St ou Herald St Huntington Ave SOUTH Black Heritage Trail Belvidere St St rt St Y Columbus Ave Clarendon St Appleton St armouth St P Muddy River HavilandEdgerly RdSt END P Prudential Chandler St One way street St Germain St P 3 Sobin Pk W. Lawrence St Back P Canton St Gray St Public restroomMidway St Bay Clearway St E. Berkeley St A St Norway St W. Appleton St 93 Harrison Ave Fens ashington St Newton Southwest Corridor Park 28 arren Ave Visitor information center W W Fenway i St. Botolph St Dartmouth Pl 1 Shawmut Ave P Parking.
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