Arborway (also known as The Arborway ) consists of a four-lane, divided parkway and a two-lane residential street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts , United States. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1890s as the southern-most carriage road in a series of parkways connecting parks from Boston Common in downtown Boston to Franklin Park in Roxbury . This park system has since become known as the Emerald Necklace .
7-673: It was included in the landscape complex called the Olmsted Park that was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1971. The Arborway begins at a large rotary that connects it with the Jamaicaway , and curves past the main entrance of Arnold Arboretum (125 Arborway), where on-street parking is allowed. The roadway once continued through Forest Hills to the edge of Franklin Park , but now ends at
14-686: The Emerald Necklace Parks Master Plan in 1989 (updated in 2001), a number of improvements have been made in Olmsted Park. Riverdale Parkway, originally designed as a carriage road, was transformed into a bicycle and pedestrian path in 1997–98. The Allerton Overlook at the foot of Allerton Street in Brookline was recreated, footbridges re-pointed, and a boardwalk placed at the south end of Wards Pond. In 2006, Brookline restored Olmsted's "Babbling Brook" (a section of
21-651: The South Street border of the Arboretum. From there, traffic exits into Forest Hills next to Forest Hills Station . The entire roadway is signed as Massachusetts Route 203 , which continues along the parkway as Morton Street . Named Monsignor William J. Casey Overpass in honor of a Depression -era priest of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Jamaica Plain, the overpass was opened in November 1953 to allow
28-502: The increasing automobile traffic of the day to bypass the north-south traffic on Washington Street, South Street, and Hyde Park Avenue. In the 2000s, community groups were investigating the possibility of fixing this "missing link" in the Emerald Necklace. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation determined the overpass "structurally deficient" in 2010 and started work on replacing it with an at-grade roadway. The overpass
35-594: The south, bordering Jamaica Pond , it includes athletic fields and three ponds: from the south, a small kettle pond called Ward's Pond, the tiny Willow Pond, and the much larger Leverett Pond. The northern section of the park, above Route 9, is a narrow corridor through which the Muddy River flows on its way to the Charles River . The northern edge of Olmsted Park connects to the Back Bay Fens and
42-541: The western edge of the Mission Hill neighborhood. Olmsted, who had made a reputation designing New York City 's Central Park , suggested in 1880 that the swampy and brackish Muddy River be included in Boston's park plan. Beginning in 1890, the river was dredged into a winding stream, a large swamp converted into Leverett's Pond, and Ward's Pond was connected with a small outflowing stream. Following completion of
49-469: Was demolished in 2015. The entire route is in the city of Boston . Olmsted Park Olmsted Park is a linear park in Boston and Brookline , Massachusetts , and a part of Boston's Emerald Necklace of connected parks and parkways . Originally named Leverett Park , in 1900 it was renamed to honor its designer, Frederick Law Olmsted . Olmsted Park can be roughly divided into two parts. In
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