{"nrhp_refnum":"04000248","name":"Furnace Brook Parkway","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Furnace Brook Parkway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.25143650000004,"lon":-71.02973625515057,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-03-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Conservation","Engineering","Landscape Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly four-mile (3.92-mile) connecting and river parkway entirely within Quincy, Massachusetts, running from the Quincy Shore Reservation to the Blue Hills Reservation, built between 1904 and 1924 for the Metropolitan Park Commission.","why_significant":"The parkway links the Blue Hills and Quincy Shore reservations and gave nearby urban areas access to them. It follows the Furnace Brook valley and reflects the design principles of the Olmsted Brothers, who designed many roadways for the Metropolitan Park Commission. It is significant at the state level in community planning, conservation, engineering, landscape architecture and transportation.","narrative":"Furnace Brook Parkway is a 3.92-mile road in Quincy, Massachusetts, that connects the Quincy Shore Reservation with the Blue Hills Reservation. It follows the valley of Furnace Brook, which takes its name from an iron furnace established in the area in 1643. The parkway was planned in the 1890s for the Metropolitan Park Commission by the Olmsted Brothers, building on principles discussed with Charles Eliot. Land takings began in 1900, and construction started in 1904 on the segment from Adams Street to the Blue Hills. A railroad overpass near Newport Avenue dates to 1924. The route passes through residential neighborhoods, a golf club and wooded stretches, with oak and maple plantings, granite curbs and concrete culverts with granite headwalls. It was listed for its role in park planning, conservation, engineering, landscape architecture and transportation, as an example of a connecting and river parkway in Greater Boston's metropolitan park system.","period_of_significance":"1904-1956","architect_builder":"Charles Eliot; Olmsted Brothers","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a roadway and parkway, now administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The I-93 rotary, built in the 1960s, is counted as noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.062955-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7926/63792648/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/04000248.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000248/262cbc6d59-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000248/262cbc6d59-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sswonk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Furnace_Brook_Pkwy_NB_HS-SA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sswonk</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Furnace_Brook_Pkwy_NB_HS-SA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792648","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furnace_Brook_Parkway","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1475034"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/furnace-brook-parkway-04000248/"}