Editing Boston Common (section)

{{Short description|Public park in Boston, Massachusetts}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox park
| type = [[Public park]]
|image = File:Aerial View Parkman Bandstand at Boston Common 2.jpg
|image_caption = Aerial view of Boston Common in [[Downtown Boston]] in June 2017
| map =
| map_label = Boston Common
| map_width = 208
| area                 = {{convert|50|acre|m2}}<ref name="nrhpinv2"/>
| mapframe-area_km2 = 1
|mapframe-marker-color = #abdb75
| opened                = 1634
| location             = [[Boston]], Massachusetts, U.S.
| designer  = Multiple, including [[Augustus St. Gaudens]]
| embedded ={{Infobox NRHP
| name                 =
| nrhp_type            = nhld
| nocat                = no
| architecture         =
| designated_nrhp_type = February 27, 1987<ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1976&ResourceType=District|title=Boston Common|access-date=April 16, 2008|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service|archive-date=February 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203083038/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1976&ResourceType=District|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| added                = July 12, 1972 (original, in NRHP also including Boston Public Garden)<br>February 27, 1987 (new, in NHL of Boston Common alone)<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref>
| refnum               = 72000144 (original)<br>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/87000760 87000760] (new)
|embed = yes
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The '''Boston Common''' is a public park in [[downtown Boston]], Massachusetts. It is the oldest city park in the United States.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.celebrateboston.com/sites/boston-common.htm|title=Boston Common|year=2006  |publisher=CelebrateBoston.com|access-date=March 26, 2011}}</ref> Boston Common consists of {{convert|50|acre|ha}} of land bounded by five major [[Boston]] streets: [[Tremont Street]], [[Park Street, Boston|Park Street]], [[Beacon Street]], [[Charles Street (Boston)|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, Boston|Franklin Park]] in [[Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts|Jamaica Plain]], [[Roxbury, Massachusetts|Roxbury]], and [[Dorchester, Boston|Dorchester]]. The visitors' center for the city of Boston is located on the Tremont Street side of the park.

The [[Central Burying Ground, Boston|Central Burying Ground]] is on the Boylston Street side of Boston Common and contains the graves of artist [[Gilbert Stuart]] and composer [[William Billings]]. Also buried there are Samuel Sprague and his son [[Charles Sprague (poet)|Charles Sprague]], one of America's earliest poets. Samuel Sprague was a participant in the [[Boston Tea Party]] and fought in the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. The Common was designated as a Boston Landmark by the [[Boston Landmarks Commission]] in 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/Boston_Common_Study_Report_4_tcm3-32547.pdf|title=Boston Common Study Report, Boston Landmarks Commission.|last=City of Boston}}</ref>

The Common is sometimes erroneously referred to as the "Boston Commons".<ref>{{cite web |title=Boston Common |url=http://www.cityofboston.gov/freedomtrail/bostoncommon.asp |access-date=November 9, 2011 |publisher=City of Boston}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Place Names: Boston English |url=http://www.universalhub.com/glossary/wickedpn.html |access-date=November 9, 2011 |publisher=Adam Gaffin and by content posters}}</ref>