Jamaicaway

The Jamaicaway is a four-lane, undivided parkway in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States and is located near the city limits to Brookline. The road was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as part of the Emerald Necklace system of parks and parkways, which extends from the Boston Common on Beacon Hill to Franklin Park in Roxbury. The Jamaicaway thereby connects the Riverway in the north to the Arborway in the south.

The road was originally designed for carriages. At the time of the draft district was sparsely populated and predominantly served by trams to the environment. Today the Jamaicaway is a busy road for motor vehicles. In particular, the proximity to the Longwood Medical and Academic Area and leading to Forest Hills, West Roxbury and in the densely populated suburbs of Norfolk County main roads contribute to the high volume of traffic. Due to the tortuous course of the road and the intensive use by commuters there are a lot of accidents, which is visible along the route mainly due to the damage caused to many trees on car height.

Many of the houses on the Jamaicaway are large and particularly interesting from an architectural perspective. The oldest of them were built by the Brahmins of Boston and used as a permanent or seasonal residence. The most well-known in connection with the Jamaicaway personality is the Irish-American mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley, the former house was due to its shutters at Shamrock design long time easy to discover.