Beacon Street

The Beacon Street is a 10.3 mi ( 16.6 km ) long road in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. It leads to the east of Route 16 in Newton Brookline and Brighton past the Kenmore Square to the junction on the Tremont Street and School Street in Boston.

Route

The route begins in Newton at the Massachusetts Route 16 near the Interstate 95 and Massachusetts Route 128 From there, the road leads eastward through Waban and Newton over at Boston College, Chestnut Hill along the banks of the reservoir and from there as by a middle stripe divided road along the tracks of the Green Line past the Fenway Park to Kenmore Square. The route from here as narrower road through the Back Bay area, and is from the Massachusetts State House for two-way street, which eventually ends at the intersection of Tremont Street / School Street near the Granary Burying Ground.

The section from Kenmore Square to Massachusetts Route 28 is designed as a one-way street in a westerly direction; By road in an easterly direction must the further south largely parallel Commonwealth Avenue and use the Boylston Street from the Boston Public Garden.

Reception

• The book Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey from 1941 is about a mother duck leading her eight boys with the help of four police officers from the Boston Police Department on Beacon Street.
• The youth book series Beacon Street Girls plays around the Beacon Street in Brookline.
• On the album Lone Star State of Mind by Nanci Griffith from 1987 there is a song called Beacon Street.
• The Beacon Street is the location of the fictional " Beacon Street Pizza " in the first season of a Girl and a bite.