Cutting down Beacon Hill, about 1800; a view from the north toward the Massachusetts State House.

Other places are also named Beacon Hill.

Beacon Hill is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, covering approximately one square mile (2.6 km²) and home to about 10,000 people. It is a wealthy neighborhood of Federal-style rowhouses, with some of the highest property values in the United States^{[citation needed]}. It is known for its narrow streets, brick sidewalks, and gas-lit streets. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Beacon Hill is a name shared by many hills, suburbs, villages and other places around the world. ... Boston redirects here. ... A Georgian house in Salisbury Georgian architecture is the name given in English-speaking countries to the architectural styles current between about 1720 and 1840, named after the four British monarchs named George. ... A street of British terraced housing In architecture and city planning, a terrace, rowhouse, or townhouse (United States) is a style of housing since the late 18th century where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows. ... Gas lighting is the process of burning piped natural gas or coal gas for illumination. ...

Like many similarly named areas, the neighborhood is named for the location of a former beacon atop the highest point in central Boston, once located just behind the current site of the Massachusetts State House. The hill, and two other nearby hills, were substantially reduced in height to allow the development of housing in the area and to create land by filling part of the Back Bay at the foot of the hill. Beacon Hill is a name shared by many hills, suburbs, villages and other places around the world. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Back Bay is the name of several places and neighborhoods in the world, including: Back Bay, Boston Back Bay, New Brunswick This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The Beacon Hill area is located just north of the Boston Common and the Boston Public Garden and is generally bounded by Beacon Street on the south, Somerset Street on the east, Cambridge Street to the north and Storrow Drive along the riverfront of the Charles River Esplanade to the west. The block bounded by Beacon, Tremont and Park Streets is included as well, as is the Boston Common itself. The level section of the neighborhood west of Charles Street, on landfill, is known locally as the "Flat of the Hill." Image:Boston common Boston Massachusetts USA.jpg Boston Common in 2005, with the State House looming in the background 1890 Map of Boston Common and the adjacent Public Garden View of the Water Celebration, on Boston Common, October 25th 1848 Boston Common Engraving For the television series, see Boston Common... Equestrian statue of George Washington. ... The Charles River from the Boston side, facing Cambridge and the main campus of Harvard University. ...

The entire hill was once owned by William Blaxton, the first settler of Boston from 1625 to 1635, who eventually sold his land to the Puritans. The south slope of Beacon Hill facing the Common was the socially desirable side in the 19th century. Black Beacon Hill was on the north slope. The two Hills were largely united on the subject of Abolition. Beacon Hill was one of the staunchest centers of the anti-slavery movement in the Antebellum era. Reverend William Blaxton (also spelled William Blackstone) (1595-1675) was an early British settler in New England, and the first European settler of modern day Boston and Rhode Island. ... This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... Antebellum is a Latin word meaning before war(ante means before and bellum is war). ...

Until a major urban renewal project of the late 1950s, the red-light district of Scollay Square flourished just to the east of Beacon Hill, as did the West End neighborhood to the north. 1999 photograph looking northeast on Chicagos now demolished Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts. ... Government Center is a city square and plaza in Boston, Massachusetts, bounded by Cambridge, Court, Congress, and Sudbury Streets. ... The West End of Boston, Massachusetts is a neighborhood bounded generally by Cambridge Street to the south, the Charles River to the west and northwest, Martha Road and Lomasney Way on the north and northeast, and Staniford Street on the west. ...

Because the Massachusetts State House is in a prominent location at the top of the hill, the term "Beacon Hill" is also often used as a metonym in the local news media to refer to the state government or the legislature. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In rhetoric and cognitive linguistics, metonymy (in Greek meta = after/later and onoma = name) is the use of a single characteristic to identify a more complex entity. ...

Beacon Hill was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1962. This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ...

2nd Harrison Gray Otis House, 85 Mount Vernon Street.

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Notable residents

Houses on Louisburg Square.

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• Louisa May Alcott, 10 Louisburg Square
• William Blaxton, original owner of Beacon Hill
• Edwin Booth, 29A Chestnut St.
• Charles Bulfinch
• John Singleton Copley
• Robert Frost, 88 Mount Vernon St., 1941
• John Hancock
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Julia Ward Howe
• John Kerry
• Henry Cabot Lodge
• James Russell Lowell
• Robert Lowell
• Harrison Gray Otis
• Sylvia Plath
• William Prescott
• David Lee Roth
• Anne Sexton
• Carly Simon
• Charles Sumner
• Daniel Webster
• Jack Welch
• Teresa Heinz
• Nicolaos S. Papadimitriou

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Sites of interest

Acorn Street, built in the late 1820s.

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• Massachusetts State House (Beacon Street): Home of the state's government
• The Unitarian Universalist Association: Headquarters of the international, liberal religious denomination, next door to the Massachusetts State House
• Louisburg Square
• Nearby Acorn Street, a narrow lane paved with cobblestones, often mentioned as the most picturesque (or the most frequently photographed) street in the United States.^{[citation needed]}
• Mt. Vernon Street: "The finest address in all America"
• Bull and Finch Bar (Beacon Street): Source of inspiration and exterior shots for the Cheers television show.
• Charles Street Meeting House
• The Club of Odd Volumes (Mount Vernon Street): Bibliophiles club, library, and archive
• Suffolk University
• Suffolk University Law School
• Park Street Church
• The route taken by the fictional Mrs. Mallard and her children, depicted in Make Way for Ducklings, a book for children by Robert McCloskey. The story is commemorated every year in May by a parade through Beacon Hill to the Boston Public Garden.
• Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial: Intersection of Beacon Street and Park Street, opposite the Massachusetts State House
• Museum of African American History, New England’s largest museum dedicated to preserving, conserving and interpreting the contributions of African Americans, located at the African Meeting House.
• Nichols House Museum, a historic 1804 townhouse
• Harrison Gray Otis House, 1796. The Otis House also houses Historic New England's headquarters.

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Notable addresses in Beacon Hill

Beacon Street

• 10 1/2 Beacon Street - Boston Athenæum
• 14 Beacon Street - Congregational House, site of the Congregational Library and City Mission Society
• 22 Beacon Street - built in 1804 by Charles Bulfinch; now houses the Beacon Hill studio for Fox 25 News (WFXT) with a strategic rooftop camera position
• 25 Beacon Street - headquarters of the Unitarian Universalist Association, an international liberal religious denomination
• 33 Beacon Street - resident George Parkman
• 34 1/2 Beacon Street - erstwhile headquarters of Family Service of Greater Boston, a private, nonprofit social service agency founded in 1835
• 39-40 Beacon Street - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow courted and married Fanny Appleton
• 42-43 Beacon Street - painter John Singleton Copley had a house on this site, as did David Sears II, whose house is now the home of the Somerset Club
• 45 Beacon Street - 3rd Harrison Gray Otis house, now American Meteorological Society
• 54-55 Beacon Street - resident William Prescott had William Makepeace Thackeray as houseguest

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Bowdoin Street

• 35 Bowdoin Street - Church of Saint John the Evangelist
• 122 Bowdoin Street - nominal resident, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (registered voting address)

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Brimmer Street

• 30 Brimmer Street - Church of the Advent (official site)
• 44 Brimmer Street - resident Samuel Eliot Morison

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Cambridge Street

• Massachusetts General Hospital - Bulfinch Pavilion and Ether Dome
• 100 Cambridge Street, Upper Plaza - Garden of Peace
• 131 Cambridge Street - Old West Church
• 141 Cambridge Street - 1st Harrison Gray Otis house, architect Charles Bulfinch

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Charles Street

• 44A Charles Street - Mary Sullivan, last victim of the Boston Strangler, murdered here

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Chestnut Street

• 6 Chestnut Street - Beacon Hill Friends House
• 13, 15, 17 Chestnut Street - architect Charles Bulfinch
• 18 Chestnut Street - birthplace of poet Robert Lowell
• 50 Chestnut Street - resident Francis Parkman, historian
• 57A Chestnut Street - Harvard Musical Association

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Grove Street

• 28 Grove Street - Resident Rev. Leonard A. Grimes, prominent black clergyman associated with the Underground Railroad and Abolitionist movement. Noted for being one of the men who bought the freedom of Anthony Burns after his arrest.

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Irving Street

• 58 Irving Street - Birthplace of Charles Sumner, abolitionist, U.S. Senator.

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Joy Street

• 46 Joy Street - African Meeting House
• 67 Joy Street - Resident Rebecca Lee Crumpler, prominent physician, considered to be the first black woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.

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Louisburg Square

• 4 Louisburg Square - resident William Dean Howells while editor of the Atlantic Monthly
• 10 Louisburg Square - residents Bronson Alcott and Louisa May Alcott and family
• 19 Louisburg Square - residents John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry
• 20 Louisburg Square - singer Jenny Lind married Otto Goldschmidt here

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Mount Vernon Street

• 32 Mount Vernon Street - residents Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe and his wife Julia Ward Howe
• 41 Mount Vernon Street - home of Beacon Press, a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association, that published the Senator Mike Gravel edition of the Pentagon Papers in 1971
• 45-47 Mount Vernon Street - site of Portia School of Law, founded for and by women in 1908
• 51-57 Mount Vernon Street - architect Charles Bulfinch
• 57 Mount Vernon Street - residents Daniel Webster and later Charles Francis Adams
• 72 Mount Vernon Street - erstwhile site of the Boston University School of Theology
• 77 Mount Vernon Street - House of the Club of Odd Volumes
• 85 Mount Vernon Street - 2nd Harrison Gray Otis house, architect Charles Bulfinch
• 87 Mount Vernon Street - architect Charles Bulfinch
• 109 Mount Vernon Street - Boston Historic Properties
• 127 Mount Vernon Street - Home of the Real World: Boston and Spenser for Hire, former Boston Fire Department station.

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Phillips Street

• 2 Phillips Street - Resident John Coburn
• 18 Phillips Street - Vilna Shul, now the Boston Center For Jewish Heritage
• 41 Phillips Street - Erstwhile site of the Northeast Institute of Industrial Technology
• 66 Phillips Street - Hayden House, associated with the Abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad
• 83 Phillips Street - Resident John Sweat Rock, prominent black dentist, attorney, and abolitionist activist

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Pinckney Street

• 15 Pinckney Street - a site of Elizabeth Peabody's Kindergarten

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Other residents

• Writers Brad Meltzer and Judd Winick lived in a tiny apartment in Beacon Hill in 1993 before they achieved success. While living there, Winick developed his first successful comic strip and Meltzer worked at Games Magazine by day while working on his first novel at night.

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See also

• Boston By Foot for guided architectural tours
• Cambridge Railroad

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Books

• Beacon Hill: The Life & Times of a Neighborhood, Moying Li-Marcus, 2002. ISBN 1-55553-543-7
• Beacon Hill: A Walking Tour, A. McVoy McIntyre, 1975. ISBN 0-316-55600-9
• Joy Street Frances Parkinson Keyes, 1950, fiction.

External links

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• Beacon Hill Online
• Black Beacon Hill
• Vilna Shul
• Back Bay - Beacon Hill 2000 Census of Population and Housing
• Beacon Hill Quick-Walk

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• The Book of Boston, 1916 by Robert Shackleton, text and photos online
• Colonial Society discussion of the development of Beacon Hill.