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class="infobox-caption">Commonwealth Avenue in 2006</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">11.0 mi (17.7 km)<sup id="cite_ref-googlemaps_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-googlemaps-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">West end</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/MA_Route_30.svg/24px-MA_Route_30.svg.png" decoding="async" width="24" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/MA_Route_30.svg/36px-MA_Route_30.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/MA_Route_30.svg/48px-MA_Route_30.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_30" title="Massachusetts Route 30">Route 30</a> in 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Bay)</td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1870_BackBay_July4_map_byFFuchs_JohnWeik_detail.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/1870_BackBay_July4_map_byFFuchs_JohnWeik_detail.png/300px-1870_BackBay_July4_map_byFFuchs_JohnWeik_detail.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/1870_BackBay_July4_map_byFFuchs_JohnWeik_detail.png/450px-1870_BackBay_July4_map_byFFuchs_JohnWeik_detail.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/1870_BackBay_July4_map_byFFuchs_JohnWeik_detail.png/600px-1870_BackBay_July4_map_byFFuchs_JohnWeik_detail.png 2x" data-file-width="935" data-file-height="555" /></a><figcaption>Construction in Back Bay (1870) with the two sides of Commonwealth Avenue flanking the tree-lined Mall.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Commonwealth Avenue</b> (colloquially 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It begins at the western edge of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Public_Garden" title="Boston Public Garden">Boston Public Garden</a>, and continues west through the neighborhoods of the <a href="/wiki/Back_Bay" class="mw-redirect" title="Back Bay">Back Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kenmore_Square" title="Kenmore Square">Kenmore Square</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Allston" title="Allston">Allston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brighton,_Boston" title="Brighton, Boston">Brighton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chestnut_Hill,_Massachusetts" title="Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts">Chestnut Hill</a>. It continues as part of <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_30" title="Massachusetts Route 30">Route 30</a> through <a href="/wiki/Newton,_Massachusetts" title="Newton, Massachusetts">Newton</a> until it crosses the <a href="/wiki/Charles_River" title="Charles River">Charles River</a> at the border of the town of <a href="/wiki/Weston,_Massachusetts" title="Weston, Massachusetts">Weston</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commonwealth_Avenue_(Boston)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Often compared to <a href="/wiki/Georges-Eug%C3%A8ne_Haussmann" title="Georges-Eugène Haussmann">Georges-Eugène Haussmann's</a> Paris boulevards, Commonwealth Avenue in Back Bay is a <a href="/wiki/Parkway" title="Parkway">parkway</a> divided at center by a wide grassy mall. This <a href="/wiki/Greenway_(landscape)" title="Greenway (landscape)">greenway</a>, called <b>Commonwealth Avenue Mall</b>, is punctuated with statuary and memorials, and forms the narrowest "link" in the <a href="/wiki/Emerald_Necklace" title="Emerald Necklace">Emerald Necklace</a>. It connects the <a href="/wiki/Public_Garden_(Boston,_Massachusetts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Garden (Boston, Massachusetts)">Public Garden</a> to <a href="/wiki/Back_Bay_Fens" title="Back Bay Fens">the Fens</a>. </p><p>Where Commonwealth Avenue reaches <a href="/wiki/Kenmore_Square" title="Kenmore Square">Kenmore Square</a>, the <a href="/wiki/MBTA" class="mw-redirect" title="MBTA">MBTA</a> <a href="/wiki/Green_Line_B_branch" title="Green Line B branch">Green Line B branch</a> rises above ground and dominates the center of the roadway through the campus of <a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a> and the neighborhoods of <a href="/wiki/Allston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Allston, Massachusetts">Allston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brighton,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Brighton, Massachusetts">Brighton</a>. After leaving Boston and entering <a href="/wiki/Chestnut_Hill,_Massachusetts" title="Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts">Chestnut Hill</a> in <a href="/wiki/Newton,_Massachusetts" title="Newton, Massachusetts">Newton</a>, the avenue passes by <a href="/wiki/Boston_College" title="Boston College">Boston College</a> and the terminus of the <a href="/wiki/MBTA_Green_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="MBTA Green Line">MBTA Green Line</a> B Branch. The trolley in the median is replaced by grass as the scenery becomes noticeably more suburban and residential, and the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Avenue_Historic_District_(Newton,_Massachusetts)" title="Commonwealth Avenue Historic District (Newton, Massachusetts)">Commonwealth Avenue Historic District</a> begins. As the road continues out of <a href="/wiki/Chestnut_Hill,_Massachusetts" title="Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts">Chestnut Hill</a> and into <a href="/wiki/Newton_Centre,_Massachusetts" title="Newton Centre, Massachusetts">Newton Centre</a>, Comm Ave is still made up of two roadways separated by a grassy median lined with trees. The south side of the roadway contains the main, two-lane east-west roadway, with a one-way, westbound "carriage road" providing local access on the north side of the median. The section of Comm Ave from <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Circle" title="Cleveland Circle">Cleveland Circle</a> in Brighton to <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_16" title="Massachusetts Route 16">Route 16</a> in Newton is along the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Marathon" title="Boston Marathon">Boston Marathon</a> route, and is known to be especially hilly, containing the three “Newton hills”. The carriage road continues into <a href="/wiki/West_Newton,_Massachusetts" title="West Newton, Massachusetts">West Newton</a>, and the road passes over the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Turnpike" title="Massachusetts Turnpike">Massachusetts Turnpike</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Auburndale,_Massachusetts" title="Auburndale, Massachusetts">Auburndale</a> section of Newton. The avenue ends as it leaves Newton, crosses the <a href="/wiki/Charles_River" title="Charles River">Charles River</a> and interchanges with <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_128" title="Massachusetts Route 128">Route 128</a>. </p><p>The linear 1.5 miles (2.4 km) stretch of Commonwealth Avenue between Kenmore Square and <a href="/wiki/Packard%27s_Corner" title="Packard's Corner">Packard's Corner</a> (where Brighton Avenue maintains a straight continuum and Commonwealth Avenue splits off) contains much of Boston University's campus. BU owns much of the property along and around this part of Commonwealth Avenue.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This 1.5-mile stretch is the most central route to commuting around Boston University's main campus, also known as the Charles River Campus, and is frequented by pedestrians, bicycles, and other means of transportation. Walking from one end (Kenmore Square) to the other end (Packard's Corner) or vice versa takes about 25–35 minutes.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commonwealth_Avenue_(Boston)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Commonwealth Avenue Mall was designed by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Gilman" title="Arthur Gilman">Arthur Delevan Gilman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted" title="Frederick Law Olmsted">Frederick Law Olmsted</a> designed the Newton portion of Commonwealth Avenue and included the parkway as part of the Emerald Necklace park system. The first statue on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall was erected in 1865 at Arlington Street.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Newton end of the roadway was constructed in 1895 with a line of the <a href="/wiki/Middlesex_and_Boston_Street_Railway" title="Middlesex and Boston Street Railway">Middlesex and Boston Street Railway</a> in the median. In 1923, the stretch of Commonwealth Avenue between Warren Street and Sutherland Road became the first street paved with concrete in Boston.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Streetcar" class="mw-redirect" title="Streetcar">Streetcar</a> service was cut back to its present terminus at the Boston border in 1930 and <a href="/wiki/Buses" class="mw-redirect" title="Buses">buses</a> last ran on Commonwealth Avenue in 1976. An <a href="/wiki/Amusement_park" title="Amusement park">amusement park</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ballroom" title="Ballroom">ballroom</a> known as <a href="/wiki/Norumbega_Park" title="Norumbega Park">Norumbega Park</a> was built at the end of the line on the Charles River in 1897 to increase streetcar patronage.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The eastern half of the Newton section of the road is listed on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Avenue_Historic_District_(Newton,_Massachusetts)" title="Commonwealth Avenue Historic District (Newton, Massachusetts)">Commonwealth Avenue Historic District</a>. The mall that includes the landscape features, monuments, street furniture and fences that are bounded by Kenmore Street, Arlington Street and Commonwealth Avenue was designated as a <a href="/wiki/Boston_Landmark" title="Boston Landmark">Boston Landmark</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Landmarks_Commission" title="Boston Landmarks Commission">Boston Landmarks Commission</a> in 1978. </p><p>The addition of <a href="/wiki/Protected_bike_lane" class="mw-redirect" title="Protected bike lane">protected bike lanes</a> between the BU Bridge and Packards Corner in 2020 resulted in a tripling of <a href="/wiki/Bikeshare" class="mw-redirect" title="Bikeshare">bikeshare</a> usage along that segment.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Statuary">Statuary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commonwealth_Avenue_(Boston)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Statuary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Starting at the <a href="/wiki/Public_Garden_(Boston,_Massachusetts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Garden (Boston, Massachusetts)">Public Garden</a> and going westward, the following statues can be seen on the mall: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Alexander_Hamilton_(Boston)" title="Statue of Alexander Hamilton (Boston)">Alexander Hamilton</a>, co-author of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers" title="The Federalist Papers">The Federalist Papers</a></i>, sculpted by <a href="/wiki/William_Rimmer" title="William Rimmer">William Rimmer</a>. The first statue placed on the mall. 1865.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_John_Glover" title="Statue of John Glover">Statue of John Glover</a>, (depicts <a href="/wiki/John_Glover_(general)" title="John Glover (general)">John Glover</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a> soldier), sculpted by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Milmore" title="Martin Milmore">Martin Milmore</a>. 1875.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bust_of_Patrick_Collins" title="Bust of Patrick Collins">Bust of Patrick Collins</a>, depicts <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Collins_(mayor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrick Collins (mayor)">Patrick Andrew Collins</a>, the former mayor of Boston; sculpted by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Hudson_Kitson" title="Henry Hudson Kitson">Henry Hudson Kitson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theo_Alice_Ruggles_Kitson" class="mw-redirect" title="Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson">Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson</a>. Moved in 1966 from its original siting at Charlesgate due to construction of the <a href="/wiki/Bowker_Overpass" title="Bowker Overpass">Bowker Overpass</a>.</li> <li>The Vendome Memorial, which honors nine firefighters killed in the 1972 <a href="/wiki/Hotel_Vendome_fire" title="Hotel Vendome fire">Hotel Vendome fire</a>, sculpted by Theodore Clausen with landscape architect Peter White. 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_William_Lloyd_Garrison" title="Statue of William Lloyd Garrison">William Lloyd Garrison</a>, abolitionist and journalist, sculpted by Owen Levi Warner.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Samuel_Eliot_Morison" title="Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison">Samuel Eliot Morison</a>, naval historian and writer, sculpted by Penelope Jencks. 1982.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Boston_Women%27s_Memorial" title="Boston Women's Memorial">Boston Women's Memorial</a>, with statues of <a href="/wiki/Abigail_Adams" title="Abigail Adams">Abigail Adams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Stone" title="Lucy Stone">Lucy Stone</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley" title="Phillis Wheatley">Phillis Wheatley</a>, sculpted by <a href="/wiki/Meredith_Bergmann" title="Meredith Bergmann">Meredith Bergmann</a>. 2003.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Domingo_Faustino_Sarmiento" title="Statue of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento">Domingo Sarmiento</a>, former president of <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>, sculpted by Yvette Compagnion. 1973. A gift of the Argentine government in 1913, the statue arrived in Boston sixty years later.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Leif_Erikson_(Boston)" title="Statue of Leif Erikson (Boston)">Leif Ericson</a>, first European discoverer of <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)" title="Newfoundland (island)">Newfoundland</a>, sculpted by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Whitney" title="Anne Whitney">Anne Whitney</a>. 1887. Commissioned by <a href="/wiki/Eben_Norton_Horsford" title="Eben Norton Horsford">Eben Norton Horsford</a>, the inventor of baking powder, this statue was originally sited at the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Avenue_(Boston)" class="mw-redirect" title="Massachusetts Avenue (Boston)">Massachusetts Avenue</a> end of this block, but was moved to Charlesgate in 1917. <a href="/wiki/Anne_Whitney" title="Anne Whitney">Whitney</a> also created a monument to <a href="/wiki/Leif_Ericson" class="mw-redirect" title="Leif Ericson">Leif</a> situated on the shores of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hamilton_statue,_Commonwealth_Avenue,_Boston,_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Hamilton Statue, 19th century"><img alt="Hamilton Statue, 19th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Hamilton_statue%2C_Commonwealth_Avenue%2C_Boston%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg/200px-Hamilton_statue%2C_Commonwealth_Avenue%2C_Boston%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Hamilton_statue%2C_Commonwealth_Avenue%2C_Boston%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg/300px-Hamilton_statue%2C_Commonwealth_Avenue%2C_Boston%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Hamilton_statue%2C_Commonwealth_Avenue%2C_Boston%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg/400px-Hamilton_statue%2C_Commonwealth_Avenue%2C_Boston%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2737" data-file-height="1365" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Hamilton Statue, 19th century</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Morison-statue.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison on the mall, 2006"><img alt="Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison on the mall, 2006" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Morison-statue.jpg/131px-Morison-statue.jpg" decoding="async" width="131" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Morison-statue.jpg/197px-Morison-statue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Morison-statue.jpg/262px-Morison-statue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="1280" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Statue of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Eliot_Morison" title="Samuel Eliot Morison">Samuel Eliot Morison</a> on the mall, 2006</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commonwealth_Ave_October_2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Commonwealth Avenue Mall looking west towards the Alexander Hamilton statue, 2006"><img alt="The Commonwealth Avenue Mall looking west towards the Alexander Hamilton statue, 2006" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Commonwealth_Ave_October_2006.jpg/200px-Commonwealth_Ave_October_2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Commonwealth_Ave_October_2006.jpg/300px-Commonwealth_Ave_October_2006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Commonwealth_Ave_October_2006.jpg/400px-Commonwealth_Ave_October_2006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Commonwealth Avenue Mall looking west towards the <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Alexander Hamilton</a> statue, 2006</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commonwealth_Avenue_(Boston)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:CommonwealthAve_KingsBoston1881.png" class="mw-file-description" title="c. 1881"><img alt="c. 1881" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/CommonwealthAve_KingsBoston1881.png/200px-CommonwealthAve_KingsBoston1881.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/CommonwealthAve_KingsBoston1881.png/300px-CommonwealthAve_KingsBoston1881.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/CommonwealthAve_KingsBoston1881.png/400px-CommonwealthAve_KingsBoston1881.png 2x" data-file-width="532" data-file-height="416" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">c. 1881</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:CommonwealthAve_Boston_Bacon_1886.png" class="mw-file-description" title="c. 1886"><img alt="c. 1886" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/CommonwealthAve_Boston_Bacon_1886.png/200px-CommonwealthAve_Boston_Bacon_1886.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/CommonwealthAve_Boston_Bacon_1886.png/300px-CommonwealthAve_Boston_Bacon_1886.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/CommonwealthAve_Boston_Bacon_1886.png/400px-CommonwealthAve_Boston_Bacon_1886.png 2x" data-file-width="540" data-file-height="304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">c. 1886</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:2350760077_Vendome_Boston.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vendome, 19th century"><img alt="Vendome, 19th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/2350760077_Vendome_Boston.jpg/198px-2350760077_Vendome_Boston.jpg" decoding="async" width="198" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/2350760077_Vendome_Boston.jpg/297px-2350760077_Vendome_Boston.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/2350760077_Vendome_Boston.jpg/396px-2350760077_Vendome_Boston.jpg 2x" data-file-width="614" data-file-height="543" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Vendome, 19th century</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1901_CommonwealthAve_ClarendonSt_Boston.png" class="mw-file-description" title="1901"><img alt="1901" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/1901_CommonwealthAve_ClarendonSt_Boston.png/200px-1901_CommonwealthAve_ClarendonSt_Boston.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/1901_CommonwealthAve_ClarendonSt_Boston.png/300px-1901_CommonwealthAve_ClarendonSt_Boston.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/1901_CommonwealthAve_ClarendonSt_Boston.png/400px-1901_CommonwealthAve_ClarendonSt_Boston.png 2x" data-file-width="458" data-file-height="370" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1901</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Comm_Ave_at_South_Street_in_Brighton_at_night.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Overview of Commonwealth Ave., Brighton, 2007"><img alt="Overview of Commonwealth Ave., Brighton, 2007" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Comm_Ave_at_South_Street_in_Brighton_at_night.jpg/200px-Comm_Ave_at_South_Street_in_Brighton_at_night.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Comm_Ave_at_South_Street_in_Brighton_at_night.jpg/300px-Comm_Ave_at_South_Street_in_Brighton_at_night.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Comm_Ave_at_South_Street_in_Brighton_at_night.jpg/400px-Comm_Ave_at_South_Street_in_Brighton_at_night.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Overview of Commonwealth Ave., Brighton, 2007</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Boston_at_sunset.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Overview, near Kenmore Square, 2007"><img alt="Overview, near Kenmore Square, 2007" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Boston_at_sunset.jpg/200px-Boston_at_sunset.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Boston_at_sunset.jpg/300px-Boston_at_sunset.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Boston_at_sunset.jpg/400px-Boston_at_sunset.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Overview, near Kenmore Square, 2007</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commonwealth_Avenue_at_Mass_Pike_tilt-shift,_November_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Comm. Ave, near Boston University, 2009"><img alt="Comm. Ave, near Boston University, 2009" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Commonwealth_Avenue_at_Mass_Pike_tilt-shift%2C_November_2009.jpg/200px-Commonwealth_Avenue_at_Mass_Pike_tilt-shift%2C_November_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Commonwealth_Avenue_at_Mass_Pike_tilt-shift%2C_November_2009.jpg/300px-Commonwealth_Avenue_at_Mass_Pike_tilt-shift%2C_November_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Commonwealth_Avenue_at_Mass_Pike_tilt-shift%2C_November_2009.jpg/400px-Commonwealth_Avenue_at_Mass_Pike_tilt-shift%2C_November_2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="682" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Comm. Ave, near Boston University, 2009</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 205px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:2010_CommonwealthAve_Boston_4588722811.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Near Massachusetts Avenue, 2010"><img alt="Near Massachusetts Avenue, 2010" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/2010_CommonwealthAve_Boston_4588722811.jpg/200px-2010_CommonwealthAve_Boston_4588722811.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/2010_CommonwealthAve_Boston_4588722811.jpg/300px-2010_CommonwealthAve_Boston_4588722811.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/2010_CommonwealthAve_Boston_4588722811.jpg/400px-2010_CommonwealthAve_Boston_4588722811.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1333" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Near Massachusetts Avenue, 2010</div> 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title="Arborway">Arborway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Avenue_(Boston)" title="Atlantic Avenue (Boston)">Atlantic Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Hills_Parkway" title="Blue Hills Parkway">Blue Hills Parkway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowdoin_Street_(Boston)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bowdoin Street (Boston)">Bowdoin Street</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brattle_Street_(Boston)" title="Brattle Street (Boston)">Brattle Street</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookline_Avenue" title="Brookline Avenue">Brookline Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Street_(Boston)" title="Charles Street (Boston)">Charles Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbus_Avenue_(Boston)" title="Columbus Avenue (Boston)">Columbus Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorchester_Avenue_(Boston)" title="Dorchester Avenue (Boston)">Dorchester Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stony_Brook_Reservation_Parkways" title="Stony Brook Reservation Parkways">Enneking Parkway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Street_(Boston)" title="Federal Street (Boston)">Federal Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Street_(Boston)" title="Franklin Street (Boston)">Franklin Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanover_Street_(Boston)" title="Hanover Street (Boston)">Hanover Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaicaway" title="Jamaicaway">Jamaicaway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_Street_(Boston)" title="Jersey Street (Boston)">Jersey Street (Yawkey Way)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Avenue_(metropolitan_Boston)" title="Massachusetts Avenue (metropolitan Boston)">Massachusetts Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morrissey_Boulevard" title="Morrissey Boulevard">Morrissey Boulevard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_Street" title="Morton Street">Morton Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Street_(Boston)" title="North Street (Boston)">North Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Drive_(parkway)" title="Park Drive (parkway)">Park Drive</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:1%">Intersections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Adams_Square_(Boston)" title="Adams Square (Boston)">Adams Square</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_(MBTA_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew (MBTA station)">Andrew Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_and_Blackstone_Squares" title="Franklin and Blackstone Squares">Blackstone Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brigham_Circle" title="Brigham Circle">Brigham Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Square,_Boston" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Square, Boston">Central Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chester_Square_(Boston)" title="Chester Square (Boston)">Chester Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlestown,_Boston#Geography" title="Charlestown, Boston">City Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Circle" title="Cleveland Circle">Cleveland Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codman_Square_District" title="Codman Square District">Codman Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copley_Square" title="Copley Square">Copley Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Day_Square" title="Day Square">Day Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Square" title="Dewey Square">Dewey Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dock_Square" title="Dock Square">Dock Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downtown_Crossing" title="Downtown Crossing">Downtown Crossing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Plain#Neighborhoods" title="Jamaica Plain">Egleston Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorchester,_Boston#Neighborhood_sections_and_squares" title="Dorchester, Boston">Fields Corner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_and_Blackstone_Squares" title="Franklin and Blackstone Squares">Franklin Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haymarket_Square_(Boston)" title="Haymarket Square (Boston)">Haymarket Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Plain#Neighborhoods" title="Jamaica Plain">Hyde Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Plain#Neighborhoods" title="Jamaica Plain">Jackson Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenmore_Square" title="Kenmore Square">Kenmore Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisburg_Square" title="Louisburg Square">Louisburg Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_and_Cass" class="mw-redirect" title="Mass and Cass">Mass and Cass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maverick_Square" title="Maverick Square">Maverick Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Square_(Boston)" title="North Square (Boston)">North Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nubian_Square" title="Nubian Square">Nubian Square (Dudley Square)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Packard%27s_Corner" title="Packard's Corner">Packard's Corner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Square_(Boston)" title="Park Square (Boston)">Park Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorchester,_Boston#Neighborhood_sections_and_squares" title="Dorchester, Boston">Peabody Square</a></li> <li><a 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