Хантингтон-авеню

Хантингтон-авеню
Основные узлы
Вест-Энд	Маршрут 9 Вашингтон-стрит.
Основные перекрестки	Массачусетс Авеню I-90 Массачусетская магистраль
Ист-Энд	Маршрут 9 Дартмут-стрит.
Расположение
Страна	Соединенные Штаты
Состояние	Массачусетс
Система автомагистралей
Система автомобильных дорог штата Массачусетс Interstate US State

Huntington Avenue, Boston, near the Christian Science Center, as viewed from the Prudential Tower (2009)

Хантингтон-авеню — магистраль в городе Бостон , штат Массачусетс , начинающаяся от площади Копли и продолжающаяся на запад через районы Бэк-Бэй , Фенуэй , Лонгвуд и Мишн-Хилл . Он подписан как Массачусетский маршрут 9. (бывший маршрут C9). Часть Хантингтон-авеню официально признана Авеню искусств . городом Бостоном

Описание

В районе Бэк-Бэй на проспекте в основном доминируют Церковь Матери и штаб-квартира Церкви Христа, Ученого , а также здания Prudential Center торгово-офисного комплекса .

Средняя часть Хантингтон-авеню, обозначенная как «Авеню искусств», окружена многими значительными художественными площадками и образовательными учреждениями Бостона, в том числе Симфоническим залом , Садоводческим залом , Консерваторией Новой Англии , Северо-Восточным университетом , Театром Хантингтон-авеню (Театральная компания Хантингтон-авеню). главная сцена), Музей изящных искусств , Технологический институт Вентворта и Массачусетский колледж искусств .

Near the Longwood Medical Area, the street touches upon a number of medical research institutions and hospital complexes, including the Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

At the point at which the street reaches the overpass of the Jamaicaway and the border of the town of Brookline, South Huntington Avenue runs south towards Jamaica Plain, while Route 9 continues west into Brookline as Washington Street briefly, then Boylston Street.

Public transportation

The E branch of the MBTA Green Line roughly follows Huntington Avenue underground from Copley Square until it rises above ground at the Northeastern portal. It then operates in a dedicated median of Huntington Avenue between Northeastern University and the Brigham Circle stop, where trains begin street running in mixed traffic to a terminus at Heath Street.

The MBTA #39 bus runs from Back Bay station via Huntington Avenue following the streetcar line, and traveling beyond Heath Street to Forest Hills station. The bus route is considered one of the key bus routes in the system, with high ridership and enhanced levels of service.

History

Huntington Avenue began in Art Square (now Copley Square) and wended its way toward Brookline. By 1883, the square that had been named for the adjacent (and later relocated) Museum of Fine Arts was renamed Copley Square. The avenue originally began at the intersection of Clarendon and Boylston Streets, and ran diagonally across the square past Trinity Church. In the 1960s this stretch was eliminated as part of a redesign of the square, and now the avenue originates from the intersection of Dartmouth Street and St. James Avenue.

The street had originally been called Western Avenue, and was later renamed after Ralph Huntington (1784–1866). Huntington was one of the men who moved to have the Back Bay filled in. He donated money to many of the institutions in the Back Bay, and later the Fenway.

An existing system of horse-drawn streetcar lines was extended onto Huntington Avenue around 1883, running in a dedicated median from Francis Street to the Boston Public Library. From there it ran in general street traffic until turning onto Boylston Street. In 1894, the streetcar line was electrified. On February 16, 1941, the Tremont Street Subway (which in 1914 had already been extended for other lines running through Copley Square) opened a streetcar portal on Huntington Ave near Northeastern University. This allowed streetcars to avoid surface traffic from Copley to Northeastern, and created two new subway stops: Symphony and Mechanics (now Prudential).

Huntington Avenue, near Northeastern University, was the site of the old Boston Red Sox stadium and site of the first World Series game in 1903. A statue of Cy Young stands on the current day Northeastern campus to commemorate the location of the pitcher's mound of the Huntington Avenue Grounds ballpark.

Gallery

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  Mechanics' Hall, 1881
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  Huntington Ave (at left), at Copley Square, 1889
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  Huntington Ave, 1920
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  Horticultural Hall, at corner of Huntington and Massachusetts Ave, 1920
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  20th century overview of Huntington Ave in the vicinity of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  Raised crosswalk in front of the New England Conservatory of Music, 2008

See also

• Boston YMCA
• Brigham Circle
• Copley Square
• First Church of Christ, Scientist
• Harvard School of Public Health
• Horticultural Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
• Huntington Theatre Company
• Jordan Hall
• Longwood Medical and Academic Area
• Massachusetts College of Art and Design
• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• New England Conservatory
• Northeastern University
• Wentworth Institute of Technology

Demolished buildings

• Boston Opera House
• Chickering Hall, Boston
• Original buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were located at the Copley Square origin of Huntington Avenue
• Mechanics' Hall (1881–1959) built by Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
• Original building of the Museum of Fine Arts was located in Copley Square
• New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute (1880s)
• St. James Theatre, Boston

External links

• City of Boston Archives. Electric street lights on Huntington Avenue, c. 1910

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