Building Limits

In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirteen. Be it ordained by the City Council of Boston, as follows:

Section 1. The building limits referred to in section nine of chapter five hundred and fifty of the acts of the year 1907 are hereby extended, defined and established as follows:

All that portion of the city which is included within a line beginning at the intersection of the boundary lines between the City of Boston and the cities of Somerville and Everett; thence by the boundary lines between the City of Boston and the cities of Everett and Chelsea to the intersection with the centre line of Trumbull street extended northerly; thence by said centre line of Trumbull street extended, the centre line of Trumbull street and said centre line extended southerly to the Harbor line; thence by said Harbor line to its intersection with the easterly line of Pier No. 5 belonging to the Boston and Albany Railroad Company; thence by a straight line across Boston Harbor to its intersection with the Harbor line at the easterly corner of Pier No. 1 in South Boston; thence by the Harbor line in the northerly, easterly and southerly portions of South Boston to an angle in said Harbor line nearly opposite the intersection of the centre line of Columbia road with the centre line of location of the Old Colony Railroad; thence by a straight line to the said intersection; and by the centre lines of Columbia road, Blue Hill avenue, Seaver street, Columbus avenue, Atherton and Mozart streets, Chestnut avenue, Sheridan, Centre and Perkins streets, South Huntington avenue, Castleton street and the centre line of said Castleton street extended to the boundary line between the City of Boston and the town of Brook-line; thence by said boundary line to a point therein one hundred feet southwest of Washington street in the Brighton district; thence by a line parallel to and one hundred feet southwesterly from the centre line of Washington street to an angle formed by the intersection of said line with the extension of a line parallel to and one hundred feet northwesterly of the centre line of Market street; thence by said extension and said line parallel to and one hundred feet northwesterly of the centre line of Market street to a point one hundred feet south of the centre line of Western avenue; thence by a line parallel to and one hundred feet south of the centre line of Western avenue and said line extended to a point in the boundary line between the City of Boston and the town of Watertown south of Watertown Bridge, so called; thence by said boundary line and the boundary lines between the cities of Cambridge and Somerville to the point of beginning.

Also those portions of Ward 26 upon or within one hundred feet of the following named streets and squares:

Everett square, so called; Fairmount avenue from River street to the Neponset river; River street from the location of the Boston & Providence Railroad to Winthrop street; Hyde Park avenue on the easterly side from the northerly side of Oak street to Everett street; Hyde Park avenue on the westerly side from the northerly side of Pine street extension, so called, to a point on said Hyde Park avenue opposite the southerly line of Everett street; Harvard avenue from River street to Winthrop street; Maple street from River street to a point one hundred and eighty feet southerly therefrom; Central avenue from River street to Winthrop street; Davison street from Fairmount avenue to a point three hundred feet northeasterly therefrom; Grove street; Pierce street from Fairmount avenue to a point three hundred feet northeasterly therefrom; Knott street from Fairmount avenue to a point three hundred feet easterly therefrom; Railroad avenue from Fairmount avenue to a point three hundred feet northeasterly therefrom; Station street from the Neponset river to a point three hundred feet northeasterly from Fairmount avenue; Walnut street from Fairmount avenue to a point three hundred feet southwesterly therefrom; Maple street from Fair-mount avenue to a point one hundred and twenty-five feet westerly therefrom.

This ordinance became operative July 1, 1914 1907, c. 550, Sect. 9; 1914, c. 782, Sect. 1; Ord. 1914, c. 4, Sect. 1.]