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Arborway

The Arborway, between Jamaica Pond and the Arnold Arboretum.
Maintained by	Department of Conservation and Recreation
Length	1.6 mi (2.6 km)
Location	Emerald Necklace, Boston, Massachusetts
West end	Pond Street in Jamaica Plain
East end	Route 203 (Morton Street) in Forest Hills
Other
Designer	Frederick Law Olmsted

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.

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.

Description

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 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.

Casey Overpass

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 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 was demolished in 2015.

Major intersections

The entire route is in the city of Boston.

Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Jamaica Plain	0.0	0.0	Francis Parkman Drive / Pond Street / Jamaicaway north	Traffic circle; southern terminus of Jamaicaway
	0.4	0.64	Centre Street	Traffic circle; western terminus of Route 203
Forest Hills	1.6	2.6	Route 203 east (Morton Street) / Circuit Drive	Route 203 continues east as Morton Street
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Route transition

See also

• Arborway (MBTA station)
• M.T.A. (song)

References

1. ^ "Arborway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
2. "National Register Information System – Olmsted Park System (#71000086)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
3. "Forest Hills overpass opened". Boston Globe. November 27, 1953. p. 61 – via Newspapers.com.
4. Rappaport Institute, "Casey Overpass" Archived September 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
5. "About the Project - Casey Overpass". www.massdot.state.ma.us. MassDOT Highway. Archived from the original on 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
6. "Casey Overpass is coming down, to the delight of some, and the dismay of others - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2017-01-22.

External links

• Arnold Arboretum
• The Emerald Necklace Conservancy

v t e Emerald Necklace
Arborway Arnold Arboretum The Fens Boston Common Boston Public Garden Commonwealth Avenue Dorchesterway Fenway Forsyth Park Franklin Park Jamaica Pond Jamaicaway Olmsted Park Park Drive Riverway
Frederick Law Olmsted Boston, Massachusetts Jamaica Plain Roxbury Brookline Dorchester

v t e Streets and squares in Boston
East–west streets	Beacon Street Boylston Street Commonwealth Avenue Congress Street Court Street Day Boulevard Dedham Parkway Fenway Gallivan Boulevard Huntington Avenue Melnea Cass Boulevard Milk Street Neptune Road New Chardon Street Newbury Street Park Street Soldiers Field Road State Street Storrow Drive Summer Street Tremont Street Winter Street
North–south streets	Arborway Atlantic Avenue Blue Hills Parkway Bowdoin Street Brattle Street Brookline Avenue Charles Street Columbus Avenue Dorchester Avenue Enneking Parkway Federal Street Franklin Street Hanover Street Jamaicaway Jersey Street (Yawkey Way) Massachusetts Avenue Morrissey Boulevard Morton Street North Street Park Drive Riverway School Street Truman Parkway Turtle Pond Parkway Union Street Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway Washington Street West Boundary Road West Roxbury Parkway
Intersections	Adams Square Andrew Square Blackstone Square Brigham Circle Central Square Chester Square City Square Cleveland Circle Codman Square Copley Square Day Square Dewey Square Dock Square Downtown Crossing Egleston Square Fields Corner Franklin Square Haymarket Square Hyde Square Jackson Square Kenmore Square Louisburg Square Mass and Cass Maverick Square North Square Nubian Square (Dudley Square) Packard's Corner Park Square Peabody Square Post Office Square Roxbury Crossing Scollay Square Sullivan Square Thompson Square Union Square Uphams Corner Winthrop Square
Italics denote streets and squares that no longer exist. See also Neighborhoods in Boston Transportation in Boston

• Emerald Necklace
• Frederick Law Olmsted works
• Parkways in Massachusetts
• Streets in Boston