Boston Common
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
View of the water celebration on Boston Common on October 25, 1848
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Location	Boston, Massachusetts
Area	50 acres (200,000 m2)[1]
Built	1634
Architect	Multiple, including Augustus St. Gaudens
NRHP reference #	72000144 (original) 87000760 (new)
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	July 12, 1972 (original, in NRHP also including Boston Public Garden) February 27, 1987 (new, in NHL of Boston Common alone)[2]
Designated NHLD	February 27, 1987[3]

Boston Common (also known as the Common) is a central public park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is sometimes erroneously referred to as the Boston Commons.^[4][5] Dating from 1634, it is the oldest city park in the United States.^[6] The Boston Common consists of 50 acres (20 ha) of land bounded by Tremont Street (139 Tremont St.), Park Street, Beacon Street, Charles Street, and Boylston Street. The Common is part of the Emerald Necklace of parks and parkways that extend from the Common south to Franklin Park in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and Dorchester. A visitors' center for all of Boston is located on the Tremont Street side of the park.

 

Aerial view in 2017

The Central Burying Ground is located on the Boylston Street side of Boston Common and contains the burial sites of the artist Gilbert Stuart and the composer William Billings. Also buried there are Samuel Spragueand his son, Charles Sprague, one of America's earliest poets. Samuel Sprague was a participant in the Boston Tea Party and fought in the Revolutionary War. The Common was designated as a Boston Landmarkby the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1977.^[7]