Revere Beach Parkway

Revere Beach Parkway
Route 16 marker
Route 145 marker
Looking eastbound at Everett Avenue in Everett
Looking eastbound at Everett Avenue in Everett
Part of Route 16 / Route 145
Maintained byDepartment of Conservation and Recreation
Length5.3 mi (8.5 km)[1]
LocationGreater Boston, Massachusetts
West end Route 28 in Medford
East end Route 1A / Route 60 in Revere
Revere Beach Parkway—Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Revere Beach Parkway is located in Massachusetts
Revere Beach Parkway
Revere Beach Parkway is located in the United States
Revere Beach Parkway
LocationMedford, Everett, Chelsea, and Revere, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°24′7.5″N 71°2′40.5″W / 42.402083°N 71.044583°W / 42.402083; -71.044583
Built1899
ArchitectCharles Eliot
MPSMetropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS
NRHP reference No.07001241[2]
Added to NRHPDecember 6, 2007

Revere Beach Parkway is a historic parkway in the suburbs immediately north of Boston, Massachusetts. It begins at Wellington Circle in Medford, where the road leading to the west is Mystic Valley Parkway, and the north–south road is the Fellsway, designated Route 28. The parkway proceeds east, ending at Eliot Circle, the junction of Revere Beach Boulevard and Winthrop Parkway in Revere. In between, the parkway passes through the cities of Everett and Chelsea. The parkway was built between 1896 and 1904 to provide access from interior communities to Revere Beach. It underwent two major periods of capacity expansion, in the 1930s and again in the 1950s.[3] The parkway is designated as part of Route 16 west of Route 1A, and as part of Route 145 east of that point.

The route of the roadway, along with a number of specific features relating to its original period of construction and those of the later expansions up to 1957, was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 2007.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Revere Beach Parkway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  3. ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Revere Beach Parkway". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved January 2, 2014.