Districts of Boston
Allston
Allston is a district of the west of Boston; it shares a common administration with the district close to
Brighton. Approximately half of the population of this district is coed and frequent Harvard, the
Boston College and the Université of Boston. Most of the district is built out of red bricks, in particular on the Commonwealth Avenue. The students and the immigrants are attracted by the relatively weak rents.
Back Bay
Bay Village
Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill is a residential district of
Boston to the
the United States. It is on the hill in the north of the
Boston Common and developed with the construction of new the capitole. It is characterized by its Cottage S and its brick houses of Style victorien which point out England. A part of them were drawn by the architect
Charles Bulfinch at the 19th century.
Charlestown
Charlestown was founded in
1628. In the beginning, it was a separated city, first capital of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony . It was annexed to the town of Boston in
1874. Located at the North-East of Boston on a peninsula extending to south-east between the River Charles and the
Mystic To rivet , Charlestown has a population of Irish stock primarily
. The
June 17th 1775, the peninsula of Charlestown was the theater of the battle of Bunker Hill, episode famous of the war of independence of the United States which was held during the head office of Boston. A monument was set up in Charlestown in remembering this battle.
Dorchester
Dorchester is the vastest district of the town of Boston. It formerly constituted an autonomous city, named according to the homonymous city of
England, from which a certain number of puritan emigrants came. The districts of Dorchester include/understand Adams Village, Ashmont Hill, Clam Not, Codman Square, Columbia Point, Edward Everett Square, Fields Corner, Four Corners, Franklin Field, Franklin Hill, Grove Hall, Jones Hill, Lower Mills, Meeting Hill House, Neponset, Popes Hill, Port Norfolk, Savin Hill, and Uphams Corner.
Downtown
Fenway Kenmore
Jamaica Lime pit
Mattapan
Mid Dorchester
Mission Hill
North End
North End is the oldest sector of the city, since he is inhabited since
1630. North End is an old working of immigration which saw passed of the Irishmen and the Jews at the XIXe century, then Italians at the beginning of XXe. Today still, the district is famous for its many Italian restaurants, as well as
Little Italy with
New York, or North Beach with
San Francisco.
Roslindale
Roxbury
South End
West Roxbury