Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Chestnut Hill
Village
Boston College's Gasson Hall building across the Chestnut Hill Reservoir
Coordinates: 42°19′50″N 71°9′58″W / 42.33056°N 71.16611°W / 42.33056; -71.16611Coordinates: 42°19′50″N 71°9′58″W / 42.33056°N 71.16611°W / 42.33056; -71.16611
Country	USA
State	Massachusetts
County	Norfolk County
ZIP code	02467

Chestnut Hill is an affluent New England village (of Newton) located six miles (10 km) west of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Like all Massachusetts villages, Chestnut Hill is not an incorporated municipal entity. Unlike most Massachusetts villages, it encompasses parts of three separate municipalities, each located in a different county: the town of Brookline in Norfolk County; the city of Boston in Suffolk County (parts of its neighborhoods of Brighton and West Roxbury), and the city of Newton in Middlesex County. Chestnut Hill's borders are roughly defined by the 02467 ZIP Code. Chestnut Hill is not a topographical designation; the name refers to several small hills that overlook the 135-acre (546,000 m²) Chestnut Hill Reservoir rather than one particular hill. Chestnut Hill is best known as the home of Boston College, part of the Boston Marathon route, as well as the Collegiate Gothic canvas of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

While most of Chestnut Hill remained farmland well into the early twentieth century, the area around the reservoir was developed, in 1870, by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park in New York City and of the Emerald Necklace in Boston and Brookline.