Boston'sNorthEnd is the city's oldest residential community, where people have lived continuously since it was settled in the 1630s.
The NorthEnd then became one of the centers of Jewish life in Boston and Hebrew inscriptions can still be found on several buildings.
Although the NorthEnd is part of Boston's original area of settlement, the bulk of the architecture one sees there today dates from the late nineteenth to early 20th centuries (tenement architecture is especially prominent).