South End, Brookline & Boston's Victorian Architecture and Arts

The South End (the neighbourhood south of Back Bay, between the Back Bay Fens and the South End/Roxbury border — the largest intact Victorian rowhouse neighbourhood in the United States (approximately 3,500 Victorian brick rowhouses, mostly built 1850-1880 on a grid of streets and small residential parks), the most socially diverse neighbourhood in Boston, and since the 1990s the centre of Boston's LGBTQ+ community and its most vibrant restaurant scene).