⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking Boston, MA: Tour of West End and Bulfinch Triangle

November 24, 2024 - 1:00 PM
49°F / 9°C

Walking (without narration) in the West End and Bulfinch Triangle neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts, via the following route: westbound on Cambridge Street → northbound on Blossom Street → Mass General Hospital campus → eastbound on Thoreau Path → southbound on Lomasney Way → eastbound on Causeway Street → TD Garden / North Station → southbound on Canal Street → westbound on New Chardon Street. Filmed with GoPro Hero 12.

Highlights:
00:00 - Old West Church
01:27 - Harrison Gray Otis House, walking westbound on Cambridge Street
02:05 - West End Branch of the Boston Public Library, Charles River Plaza
02:48 - Carol and James Herscot Building
03:52 - MGH Clinical Building (under construction), Wyndham Beacon Hill Hotel
04:47 - Walking northbound on Blossom Street
05:51 - Shriners Children's Hospital
07:25 - Mass General Hospital campus
10:30 - Walking eastbound on Thoreau Path, The Boston Synagogue
11:33 - Alcott Apartments
13:33 - Walking southbound on Lomasney Way, The West End Museum
16:34 - Walking eastbound on Causeway Street, Thomas P. O'Neill Federal Building
18:47 - TD Garden, North Station
19:50 - Walking southbound on Canal Street (Bulfinch Triangle Historic District)
23:19 - Walking eastbound on New Chardon Street, One Congress
26:17 - Edward W. Brooke Courthouse

From Wikipedia:
"The West End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bounded generally by Cambridge Street to the south, the Charles River to the west and northwest, North Washington Street on the north and northeast, and New Sudbury Street on the east. Beacon Hill is to the south, North Point (Cambridge, Massachusetts) is across the Charles River to the north, Kendall Square is in Cambridge across the Charles River to the west, and the North End of Boston is to the east.

A late 1950s urban renewal project razed a large Italian and Jewish enclave and displaced over 20,000 people in order to redevelop much of the West End and part of the neighboring Downtown neighborhood. After that, the original West End became increasingly non-residential, including part of Government Center (formerly Scollay Square) as well as much of Massachusetts General Hospital and several high rise office buildings. More recently, however, new residential buildings and spaces, as well as new parks, have been appearing across the West End.

The Bulfinch Triangle Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Canal, Market, Merrimac, and Causeway Streets in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts. The entire district was laid out by architect Charles Bulfinch on land reclaimed from the old Mill Pond (also known as North Cove), and is now populated by well-preserved commercial buildings from the 1870s through early 1900s. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986."