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Boston’s South End: Hip and Historic 1Historic Squares & Paths 2Restaurant Row 3Bulfinch’s Squares

In Boston, America’s Walking City, the South End is a 1.5 miles/30 minutes 1 mile/20 minutes 1 mile/20 minutes favorite of locals and visitors. It’s a compact, lively Follow Dartmouth Street to the Southwest Corridor Follow Clarendon Street to Tremont. Shops and dis- Follow Dartmouth and W. Canton Streets to neighborhood that is easy to access from Downtown, Park to see Braddock Park, as well as Rutland and tinctive restaurants line both sides of the street to left Washington Street. Come back via Pembroke Street Back Bay, and many hotels and tourist destinations. Concord Squares. Come back via St. Botolph Street and right for several blocks. Return via Berkeley Street. and Columbus Avenue. Walking along the flat, shady streets of the South and Huntington Avenue. What to look for: The culinary arts are on display What to look for: Blackstone and Franklin Squares are End, you’ll be charmed by this “historic district”—the What to look for: Three South End residential squares along Tremont Street and near the Boston Center for grassy and beautiful, with wispy fountains at their largest group of Victorian structures in the country. highlight this route, along with the 1989 Southwest the Arts. You’ll see the famous Victorian row hous- centers. Old and new houses on Pembroke Street Long an immigrant neighborhood, the South End Corridor Park, which covers five rail tracks of Amtrak es—bay, bow and flat-fronted. frame a spectacular view of Prudential Center. still retains its diversity. Its distinctive architecture and the MBTA Orange Line. • Historic district brass markers - in wall on Clarendon • Flat fronted houses - Lawrence Street is invigorated by an array of unique restaurants, art • Titus Sparrow Park - W. Newton Street Street/Columbus Avenue • Bow fronted houses & cobblestones - Appleton Street galleries and gift/dress/furniture shops. • Braddock Park - residential square with fountain • Flat fronted houses - Chandler Street • Bulfinch’s Franklin & Blackstone Squares You can cover a lot of distance by walking just a few • Southwest Corridor linear park • Bow fronted houses - Appleton Street • Colorful ceramic mural honoring Puerto Rican heroes minutes in the South End—the seven city blocks from • Southwest Corridor community gardens • Clarendon/Warren community gardens • Harriet Tubman Memorial Park Copley Square to Tremont Street take 10-15 minutes • Concord/Rutland Squares - original residential squares • Church turned condo - Clarendon Street • Statues in Harriet Tubman Square to walk and cover a half mile. During a round trip of • Public Library - South End branch • Boutiques, shops and home stores • Braddock Park - residential square with fountain 20-30 minutes, you’ll get the health benefits of walking • Lion statue - Columbus Avenue/Greenwich Park • Eateries, bakeries and delis - indoor & outdoor one full mile while enjoying the area! • Boston Center for the Arts, which includes: About WalkBoston • The Boston Ballet Company The streets of the South End are flat, much like the 31A The Deep South End • Cyclorama - circular exhibit hall that originally Everyone walks at some point of every trip-to and Back Bay; both areas were created by filling in tidal .5 mile extension/15 minutes housed the enormous Gettysburg diorama [1884] from your car or public transit, or all the way to your marshes. Unlike the legendary crooked streets of At the Library, continue on Rutland past Tremont. After • Huntington Theatre/Calderwood Pavilion - a new destination. WalkBoston is a nonprofit membership Downtown, South End streets were laid out in a grid touring Haven St., return to Rutland and proceed to multistage performance center organization whose mission is to create and preserve pattern, making it easy to get anywhere. You can go Washington, W. Springfield and Wellington Sts. to the safe walking environments that build vital communities. up one block and over two, or up two and over one, Southwest Corridor Park, reconnecting with Route 1. The state's principal resource on walking issues, we and so forth, always seeing something new. 32A Gallery District promote, encourage and facilitate walking and its What to look for: This walk gives an expansive look at Most South End street names came from towns in .5 mile extension/15 minutes many benefits to health, the environment, and local historic houses amid the attractive leafiness of Massachusetts that were being connected by railroads At Clarendon and Tremont, turn right then left on Union businesses. Join online at www.walkboston.org. Rutland and W. Springfield Streets. Tiny Haven Street, when the area was laid out. Beware: street names can Park. Continue along Washington and Savoy Streets and community gardens and pocket parks accent the walk. be confusing; they frequently change on either side of Harrison Avenue. Return via Berkeley and Dwight • Rutland Street - one of the South End’s most beautiful, Washington Street [the only land route into downtown Streets and reconnect with Route 2 at Tremont. Resources with a large old elm mid-block before this area was filled]. • Rutland Green - a formally planted pocket park What to look for: The city’s newest art gallery district • southendbusiness.com - business association The South End is known for its handsome 1840-1870s • South End House & Children’s Art Center in warehouse buildings off Harrison Avenue. Getting • southend.org - calendar, stories, neighborhood orgs Victorian row houses with graceful bowed windows, • Haven Street - quaint frame house there you’ll walk though an exquisite residential square. • cityofboston.gov/neighborhoods/general.asp?id=18 - cast iron railings, grand staircases, front gardens, and • Community gardens at Rutland & Washington Streets • Union Park [1850] - grand square with fountain organizations, contacts, public buildings residential squares that were created by slightly • South End cemetery [1810], Washington/E. Concord Sts. • St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church with • southendhistoricalsociety.org - history, buildings, widening streets and adding green parks in the mid- • Worcester Square - grand residential square mosaic murals, Union Park Street preservation dle. These squares and buildings are often used for • Boston Medical Center • Cathedral of the Holy Cross [1875] with its large • useaboston.com - South End Open Studios period movies because they are so picturesque. collection of stained glass • WalkBoston: Walking Tours of Boston’s Unique Though the residential buildings are compact, the • Brick power plant for West End Street Railway Co. Neighborhoods [two in the South End] $14.95 area is lush. The streets are canopied by mature [1896], Harrison Avenue through bookstores, WalkBoston 617.367.9255 or • Harrison Avenue - arts and gallery district the Prudential Information Center. shade trees from a 1970s City tree-planting program. The tradition of greenery dates back to 1801 when • Pine Street Inn - former fire station, yellow brick tower architect Charles Bulfinch laid out Blackstone and • Peters Park - playing fields and courts • New condos and home stores, Washington Street Map/Ken Dumas Text/Bob Sloane Design/Nina Garfinkle Franklin Squares [the current form was built in the 1860s].