South End, Brookline e l'Architettura Vittoriana e le Arti di Boston
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).
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South End Victorian Row Houses — Largest US Historic District
The South End's 4,000 Victorian brownstone row houses (1840s-1880s) form the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States — the neighborhood was the first in the US to gentrify, beginning in the 1960s with artists and LGBTQ+ residents.
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SoWa Art + Design District
SoWa (South of Washington) is Boston's art gallery district — the first Sunday open studios each month draws 40,000 visitors to 80+ galleries and artist studios in the former warehouse blocks south of the MBTA Orange Line.
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South End Restaurant Row — Boston's Best Dining
Tremont Street and the surrounding South End blocks contain Boston's finest restaurant concentration — Toro (Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer's Spanish tapas), Myers + Chang, and Coppa represent James Beard Award-winning Boston cooking.
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Harriet Tubman Park & Abolitionist History
Harriet Tubman Park at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and Pembroke Street commemorates the Underground Railroad activist and the South End's role as a refuge for escaped enslaved people in the 1840s-1860s.
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Boston Center for the Arts — Cyclorama Building
The BCA's Cyclorama Building (1884) is a National Historic Landmark — the circular building originally housed a 360° panoramic painting of the Battle of Gettysburg. Now a performing arts complex with the Calderwood Pavilion's four theater spaces.
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Blackstone & Franklin Squares — Georgian Parks
Blackstone and Franklin Squares are Boston's two most intact Victorian residential squares — green parks surrounded by Greek Revival and Italianate townhouses, built in the 1850s for middle-class families and now among the South End's most sought-after addresses.