Boylston Street is the name of a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Another Boylston Street runs through Boston's western suburbs.

The Boston street was known as Frog Lane in the early 18th century, and was later known as Common Street. It was later again renamed for Ward Nicholas Boylston (1747-1828), a merchant who lived in Boston in the early 19th century and who also lent his name to the town of Boylston, Massachusetts.

Boylston Street, Boston

From west to east, Boston's Boylston Street begins at the intersection of Park Dr. and Brookline Ave. as a two way, four lane road in Boston's Fenway neighborhood where it runs through a swath of parking lots and other underutilized space before forming the northern boundary of the Back Bay Fens at the Storrow Drive/Commonwealth Avenue right-of-way. Traffic traveling west on Boylston here cannot continue on Boylston and must use Ipswich St. to continue west. Here, Boylston St. enters the Back Bay neighborhood where it becomes a major commercial artery carrying three lanes of one way traffic eastbound after Dalton St. As it travels through the Back Bay, it forms the northern boundary of busy Copley Square and provides the southern limits to the Boston Public Garden before becoming a two way street running along the Boston Common's southern edge from Charles St. to Tremont St. After Tremont St., Boylston returns to carrying one way traffic east before ending at Washington St. in Downtown where it changes to Essex St.

Landmarks

• Boston Common

• Emerson College - several buildings are located along the street across from Boston Common

• Boston Public Garden

• 500 Boylston Street - a postmodern office building

• Trinity Church

• Copley Square

• Old South Church

• Boston Public Library

• Hynes Convention Center

• 941–955 Boylston Street - formerly a fire station and then home to the Institute of Contemporary Art, now part of the Boston Architectural College

• Berklee College of Music

• Back Bay Fens

• Saint Clement's Eucharistic Shrine

Shopping

• Anthropologie

• Filene's Basement

• Escada

• Hermès

• Anne Fontaine

• Sonia Rykiel

• La Perla

• St. John

• Lord & Taylor

• Apple Store

• Gucci

• Frette

• Lululemon Athletica

As part of plans to re-develop the stretch of Boylston between Ipswich and Brookline Ave., a Guitar Center is currently under construction at 1255 Boylston Street. This location is convenient due to the proximity of Berklee College of Music and Landsdowne Street. Other properties have also been purchased in an effort to improve the area.

Transportation

MBTA Green Line transit links along Boylston Street, from east to west:

• Boylston (MBTA station)

• Arlington (MBTA station)

• Copley (MBTA station)

• Hynes Convention Center (MBTA station)

• Fenway (MBTA station)

Boylston Street, Newton and Brookline

The suburban Boylston Street begins as the continuation of Route 9 at the Wellesley/Newton line and serves Newton and Brookline before ending at the border of the city of Boston, at the intersection with Brookline Ave. From there, the street (and Route 9) continue east into central Boston as Huntington Avenue.
MBTA Green Line D Branch stations along this route include:

• Brookline Village (MBTA station)

• Eliot (MBTA station)

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