Revere Beach Parkway-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston

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.