Greater Boston parkway system

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The Greater Boston parkway system is a network of scenic, historically planned roadways and parkways around Boston designed to connect urban areas with parks, beaches, and natural landscapes.


Statements (51)
Predicate Object
instanceOf historic landscape
parkway system
transportation infrastructure network
country United States
designedTo connect urban areas with beaches
connect urban areas with natural landscapes
connect urban areas with parks
era early 20th century
late 19th century
formerlyManagedBy Metropolitan District Commission
hasCharacteristic at-grade intersections
landscape-oriented design
limited commercial access
park-like medians and plantings
scenic
hasHeritageStatus listed on the National Register of Historic Places (various segments)
hasPart Alewife Brook Parkway NERFINISHED
Arborway
Blue Hills Parkway NERFINISHED
Emerald Necklace parkways
Enneking Parkway NERFINISHED
Fellsway
Fellsway East
Fellsway West
Fenway
Fresh Pond Parkway NERFINISHED
Jamaicaway
Lynn Fells Parkway NERFINISHED
Memorial Drive NERFINISHED
Morrissey Boulevard NERFINISHED
Mystic Valley Parkway NERFINISHED
Neponset River Reservation parkways
Parkway along the Charles River Basin
Parkways of the Blue Hills Reservation
Parkways of the Middlesex Fells Reservation
Quincy Shore Drive NERFINISHED
Revere Beach Parkway
Riverway
Storrow Drive
VFW Parkway NERFINISHED
West Roxbury Parkway NERFINISHED
William J. Day Boulevard NERFINISHED
locatedIn Greater Boston
Massachusetts
managedBy Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
partlyDesignedBy Charles Eliot
Frederick Law Olmsted
planningInfluencedBy City Beautiful movement
early 20th-century landscape architecture
primaryFunction access to regional parks and reservations
recreation-oriented driving

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Alewife Brook Parkway ("Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston roadways")
Beacon Street ("Greater Boston road network")
Jamaica Way ("Boston parkway system")
Revere Beach Parkway
partOf

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