Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway

Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway

The parkway in West Roxbury
Maintained by	Department of Conservation and Recreation
Length	4.3 mi (6.9 km)[1]
Location	Boston, Massachusetts
South end	Boston-Providence Highway in West Roxbury
Major junctions	Route 109 in West Roxbury
North end	Centre Street in West Roxbury
Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°17′10″N 71°9′31″W / 42.28611°N 71.15861°W / 42.28611; -71.15861
Area	20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built	1931
Architect	Charles Eliot, Olmsted Brothers
MPS	Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS
NRHP reference No.	04001432[2]
Added to NRHP	January 5, 2005

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway (referred to locally as the VFW Parkway) is a historic parkway in Boston, Massachusetts. The southern terminus of the parkway is at Washington Street at the Dedham-West Roxbury border, from where it travels north and then east, ending at a junction with Centre Street, near the Arnold Arboretum. The highway is almost entirely contained within the West Roxbury neighborhood, although it passes through part of the Chestnut Hill neighborhood near its junction with the West Roxbury Parkway. Most of its length, from Spring Street in West Roxbury to its eastern end, is administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), a successor to the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) which oversaw the road's construction. The parkway was built in stages between 1930 and 1942, and was designed to provide a parkway connection from the Upper Charles River Reservation to other MDC parks via the West Roxbury Parkway. The DCR portion of the road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.^[3] The road formerly carried the designation for U.S. Route 1.^[4]