- Beacon Street
Beacon Street is a major thoroughfare in
Boston, Massachusetts and several of its western suburbs. Beacon Street in Boston, Brookline, Brighton, and Newton is not to be confused with the Beacon Street in nearby Somerville.Description
Beacon Street begins as a one-way street from the intersection of
Tremont Street andSchool Street . From this point it rises up Beacon Hill for a block where it meets Park Street in front of theMassachusetts State House . From that intersection it descends Beacon Hill as a two-lane, bi-directional street until it reachesCharles Street . At Charles Street it becomes a one-way avenue that runs throughBack Bay neighborhood until it reachesKenmore Square .From Kenmore Square, Beacon Street skirts the area around
Fenway Park and follows a southwesterly slant through Brookline along either side ofMBTA Green Line trolley tracks toCleveland Circle in Brighton. From there it passesBoston College as it winds its way to the city of Newton, where it crosses Centre Street to form the defining intersection ofNewton Centre , meets Walnut Street at "Four Corners" near the Newton Cemetery, and goes through Waban at its intersection with Woodward Street. It ends at Washington Street near Boston'scircumferential highway ,Route 128 .History
The part of Beacon Street west of Kenmore Square was originally laid out in 1850. Railroad tracks were first laid in 1888 for what would eventually become the modern
Green Line "C" Branch .In culture
*The
Beacon Street Girls series of preteen books is set around Beacon Street in Brookline
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