Revere Beach Parkway
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Revere Beach Parkway—Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
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Eastbound at Everett Avenue in Everett
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| Location | Medford, Everett, Chelsea, and Revere, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°24′7.5″N 71°2′40.5″W / 42.402083°N 71.044583°WCoordinates: 42°24′7.5″N 71°2′40.5″W / 42.402083°N 71.044583°W |
| Built | 1899 |
| Architect | Charles Eliot |
| MPS | Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS |
| NRHP Reference # | 07001241 |
| Added to NRHP | December 06, 2007 |
Revere Beach Parkway is a historic parkway in the suburbs immediately north of Boston, Massachusetts. It begins at Wellington Circle in Medford, where the road leading to the west is the Mystic Valley Parkway, and the north-south road is the Fellsway, designated Route 28. The parkway proceeds east, ending at Eliot Circle, the junction of Revere Beach Boulevard and Winthrop Parkway in Revere. In between, the parkway passes through the towns of Everett and Chelsea. The parkway was built between 1896 and 1904 to provide access from interior communities to Revere Beach. It underwent two major periods of capacity expansion, in the 1930s and again in the 1950s. The parkway is designated as part of Route 16 west of Route 1A, and as part of Route 145 east of that point.
The route of the roadway, along with a number of specific features relating to its original period of construction and those of the later expansions up to 1957, was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Revere Beach Parkway was one of the first parkways proposed by landscape architect Charles Eliot, identified in an 1893 report to a predecessor of the Metropolitan District Commission. Work began in 1897, with the construction of a bridge across the railroad tracks of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad, now the MBTA Blue Line right-of-way. Although this bridge was lengthened to cross State Road, the original 1899 northern bridge abutment survives.
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