South End

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About this Neighborhood

The South End is a Boston neighborhood bordered by Back Bay, Chinatown and Roxbury, distinguished by its Victorian row houses and the parks in and around it. It is the largest intact Victorian row house district in the country, covering over 300 acres, with eleven residential parks, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Much of it was originally marshland in Boston's South Bay, filled in before construction began. The counts today run to 66 restaurants, 30 parks, 16 coffee shops, seven fitness spots, five grocery stores and one court, for a score of 54. Popular check ins name an American restaurant, a wine bar, a French restaurant, a coffee shop, a park, a playground, a boutique and a grocery store. Thirty parks against one court is the clearest tilt in the count.