Mission Hill, Boston
|
Mission Hill Triangle Historic District
|
|
Welcome sign in Brigham Circle intersection, Mission Hill, Boston, near front of Stoneman Plaza, BWH
|
|
| Location | Boston, MA |
|---|---|
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Late Victorian |
| NRHP Reference # | 89001747 |
| Added to NRHP | November 6, 1989 |
Mission Hill is a ¾ square mileneighborhood of Boston, with the population of over 13,000 in 2008, nearly 16,000 (15,883) people in 2007, and now likely about 19,000, of whom about 3,000 short-term residents are undergraduates from neighboring colleges (or about 16%) and maybe another 1500 are short-term visiting scholars, students, researchers, and degree candidates (or about 8%) working in the adjacent Longwood Medical Area for Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and/or the Harvard teaching hospitals. Over 32% of residents are in the 20-24 age category, and over 9% are in the 25-29 age category; almost 42% are in their 20s. Indeed, the 2014 American Community Survey published by the City of Boston states that 40.2 percent of the Hill’s population is 18 to 24 years old. One source of this is Mission Hill's residential appeal to college undergraduates and other young people who seek a party atmosphere. The Boston Redevelopment Authority reported in September 2014 that 42.2% of the neighborhood's elderly population lives in poverty.
The neighborhood is roughly bounded by Columbus Avenue and the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury to the east, Ruggles Street to the northeast and the Olmsted designed Riverway/Jamaicaway, and the town of Brookline to the west. The Historic District was designated by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1985 and is roughly bounded by Smith Street, Worthington Street, Tremont Street (to the south), and Huntington Avenue (to the west). The Mission Hill neighborhood is immediately north of the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. It is served by the MBTA Green Line E Branch and the Orange Line, and is within walking distance of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Gardner Museum. "The Hill" overlaps with about half of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, home to 21 health care, research, and education institutions which together provides the largest employment area in the City of Boston outside of downtown. Due to these adjacencies, the neighborhood is often struggling with institutional growth taking residential buildings and occupying storefront commercial space. But recent years have seen new retail stores, restaurants, and residential development giving the neighborhood a stronger political voice and identity, as some of the educational institutions have made commitments to house all or most of their about 2000 undergraduate students in newly erected campus housing, including several new high-rise dormitories. People ages 20 to 24 account for 32% of the population currently living in Mission Hill.
...
Wikipedia