Boylston Street

Boylston Street is the name of a large, east runs from west thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. In the western suburbs of Boston, there is another street with that name. The Boylston Street was called in the 18th century and later Common Frog Lane Street, until it was renamed in honor of the dealer and philanthropist Ward Nicholas Boylston last time. Boylston was a descendant of Zabdiel Boylston, was born in Boston and spent much of his life. According to him were also the Boylston Market and named the city Boylston.

Road

In the West Boylston Street begins at the intersection of Park Drive and Brookline Avenue as a four-lane road and soon forms on the northern border of the Back Bay Fens. At the Ipswitch Street, the road goes from Fenway - Kenmore neighborhood about after Back Bay, where it becomes a major arterial road from the Dalton Street. In Back Bay Boylston Street forms the northern boundary of the bustling Copley Square and at the same time the southern boundary of the Boston Public Garden. It extends further along the southern border of the Boston Common to Tremont Street. It ends at Washington Street in downtown Boston, where she is to Essex Street.

Attractions

• Saint Francis House - former building of the Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company
• Boston Common
• Emerson College - some of the buildings are located along the course of the road
• Boston Public Garden
• 500 Boylston Street - office buildings of postmodernism
• Trinity Church
• Copley Square
• Old South Church
• Boston Public Library
• Hynes Convention Center
• 941-955 Boylston Street - former fire station and later owned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, now part of the Boston Architectural College
• Berklee College of Music
• Back Bay Fens
• Saint Clement's Eucharistic Shrine

The Rogers Building at MIT was at the address 497 Boylston Street, before the Institute in 1916 moved to Cambridge. A plaque on the building reminded today of it.

Transportation

Along the Boylston Street, the MBTA Green Line runs with the stations Boylston, Arlington, Copley, Hynes Convention Center, and Fenway ( East to West).