Chestnut Hill, MA Real Estate
About Chestnut Hill
Located six miles west of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, Chestnut Hill is a wealthy suburban village notable for its stately old houses, scenic landscape, and the historic campus of Boston College. Like all Massachusetts villages, Chestnut Hill is not an incorporated municipal entity, but unlike most of them, it encompasses parts of three separate municipalities: the town of Brookline, the city of Boston {parts of its neighborhoods of Brighton and West Roxbury), and the city of Newton, Massachusetts (its village which is also called Chestnut Hill). Chestnut Hill's borders are roughly defined by the Chestnut Hill Reservoir rather than one particular hill. A Major point of interest in Chestnut Hill is Boston College and it's spectacular football team the Boston College Eagles.
Because of the significance of its landscape and architecture, the National Register of Historic Places, in 1986, designated parts of Chestnut Hill as historic districts. Examples of Colonial, Italianate, Shingle, Tudor, and Victorian architectural styles are evident in the village's country estates and mansions. The Boston College campus is itself an early example of Collegiate Gothic architecture. While most of Chestnut Hill remained farmland well into the early twentieth century, the area around the reservoir was developed, in 1870, by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park in New York and of the Emerald Necklace in Boston and Brookline.
Transportation
Chestnut Hill is served by three branches of the Green Line of the MBTA, Boston's light rail system. Stations include:
- B Line: South Street, Boston College
- C Line: Cleveland Circle
- D Line: Reservoir, Chestnut Hill Ave