Furnace Brook Parkway

Furnace Brook Parkway

Map with Furnace Brook Parkway highlighted in red.
Maintained by	Department of Conservation and Recreation
Length	3.4 mi (5.5 km)[1]
Location	Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
West end	I-93 / US 1 / Route 3 in Quincy
Major junctions	Route 3A in Quincy
East end	Quincy Shore Drive in Quincy
Construction
Completion	1904-1916
Furnace Brook Parkway
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Quincy, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°14′58″N 71°1′46″W / 42.24944°N 71.02944°W / 42.24944; -71.02944
Built	1904
Architect	Charles Eliot Olmsted Brothers
MPS	Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS
NRHP reference No.	04000248[2]
Added to NRHP	March 18, 2004

Furnace Brook Parkway is a historic parkway in Quincy, Massachusetts. Part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, it serves as a connector between the Blue Hills Reservation and Quincy Shore Reservation at Quincy Bay. First conceived in the late nineteenth century, the state parkway is owned and maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and travels through land formerly owned by the families of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, passing several historic sites. It ends in the Merrymount neighborhood, where Quincy was first settled by Europeans in 1625 by Captain Richard Wollaston. The road was started in 1904, completed in 1916 and added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2004.

Furnace Brook Parkway approximately bisects central Quincy on a southwest–northeast line, following closely the courses of Furnace Brook and Blacks Creek, the estuary into which the brook flows, crossing them several times. For the majority of its length it is two lanes undivided, with the exception of directional lanes at a traffic circle (called a "rotary" in New England) where it meets Interstate 93.