{"nrhp_refnum":"90000631","name":"Copp's Hill Terrace","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Between Commercial and Charter Sts. W of Jackson Place","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.36783131200008,"lon":-71.05552861799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Copp's Hill Terrace is an urban park of granite steps, walls and concrete terraces on the steep northern slope of Copp's Hill in Boston's North End, bounded by Commercial Street, Charter Street and Jackson Avenue. It was designed by Charles Eliot and built in the 1890s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only park in Boston designed by landscape architect Charles Eliot and the city's first attempt to give residents a view of the waterfront. It was planned with the adjacent North End Park to supply open space in a crowded tenement neighborhood. It retains integrity of location, design, materials and workmanship, meeting criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Copp's Hill Terrace is a small hillside park in Boston's North End, made up of granite steps, retaining walls and two concrete-paved terraces above Commercial Street. Landscape architect Charles Eliot, then a partner in the Olmsted firm, designed it in the 1890s. Funding was authorized in 1893, and masonry, steps and paving were finished in 1897 by Perkins and White. A tall bowed granite parapet faces Commercial Street, and the upper terrace looks over Boston Harbor, the Charlestown Navy Yard and the Bunker Hill Monument. Eliot planned it as a resting place for residents of one of the city's most crowded tenement districts. A planned footbridge to the companion North End Park on the waterfront was never built. A shelter building and concrete play floor were added in 1913, and modern lighting in 1973. It is the only park in Boston designed by Eliot, and its layout and major features remain largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1893-1913","architect_builder":"Charles Eliot (landscape architect); masonry walls, steps and pavement completed by Perkins and White","architectural_style":"Other: Urban Designed Landscape","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still serves as a park; the layout, walls, terraces and stairways are described as remarkably intact, though the walls are marked with graffiti.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.32463-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/7970/63797070/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000631.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000631/22d179487f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000631/22d179487f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Swampyank at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Copp%27s_Hill_Terrace_Boston.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Swampyank at English Wikipedia</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:Copp%27s_Hill_Terrace_Boston.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797070","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copp%27s_Hill_Terrace","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5168656"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/copps-hill-terrace-90000631/"}