{"nrhp_refnum":"07001241","name":"Revere Beach Parkway-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Revere Beach Pkwy","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chelsea","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.402678000000066,"lon":-71.06124252080699,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Engineering","Landscape Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Revere Beach Parkway is a 5.3-mile, six-lane divided boulevard running through Medford, Everett, Chelsea and Revere, Massachusetts, built in 1896-1904 as part of Greater Boston's metropolitan park system. It links the Fellsway at Wellington Circle with Eliot Circle at Revere Beach.","why_significant":"The parkway was built to connect the interior areas north of Boston with the Revere Beach Reservation. It was later widened and rebuilt as traffic grew. The district counts 21 contributing structures, including bridges, overpasses and access ramps built in or before the period of significance. These record the parkway's evolution as a road within the regional park system.","narrative":"Revere Beach Parkway is a 5.3-mile boulevard crossing Medford, Everett, Chelsea and Revere, Massachusetts. Built between 1896 and 1904 and finished in 1905, it was laid out to link the inland areas north of Boston with the new Revere Beach Reservation. It follows the Malden River, Mill Creek and Sales Creek and skirts several glacial hills before ending at Eliot Circle. Over time the roadway was resurfaced, widened and reworked to handle growing automobile traffic, becoming a six-lane route with rotaries, overpasses and ramps. Many of the surviving features date from the 1950s, including the Woods Memorial Bridge over the Malden River, Sweetser Circle's overpasses and access ramps, and bridges with granite-faced parapets and MDC date plaques. Belgian-block curbing and scattered oaks, maples and sycamores remain along the route. The district includes 21 contributing structures and 3 noncontributing ones, and it is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Contractors named for parkway works include New England Structural Company, Boston Bridge Works, American Bridge Company, Maurice M. Devine and M. McDonough Company.","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Heavily traveled formal boulevard still in use as a roadway; some sections have been rebuilt or altered, including Santilli Circle, MBTA Bridge #3 and Wellington Circle, which are noncontributing or counted elsewhere.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.698938-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/7923/63792335/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/07001241.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001241/7049750738-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001241/7049750738-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revere_Beach_Parkway_Eastbound_at_Everett_Ave,_Everett_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revere_Beach_Parkway_Eastbound_at_Everett_Ave,_Everett_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792335","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revere_Beach_Parkway","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1153520"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/revere-beach-parkway-metropolitan-park-system-of-greater-boston-07001241/"}