West Roxbury Real Estate
A small neighborhood of Boston, West Roxbury occupies an area of 4.61 square miles and had a population of 30,446 as of the 2010 Census. Bordered by Brookline, Newton, Roslindale, Jamaica Plain, Dedham, and Roxbury, neighbourhood was home to an experimental transcendentalist Utopian community called Brook Farm, which attracted notable figures including Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose 1852 novel The Blithedale Romance, is based on his stay there.
The progression of West Roxbury to the lovely place it is to live today began with the growth in construction making transportation more simple via the Boston and Providence Rail Road and electric streetcars.
West Roxbury falls under the highly respected Boston Public School system, and features a great deal of schools of all levels and specialties. There is also the Roxbury Latin School, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and the Catholic Memorial School in the area. The Boston Public Library operates the West Roxbury Branch Library as well. Other points of interests include the Theodore Parker Church, the Holy Name Church, Millennium Park, Brook Farm, City of Boston Archives, Billings Field, Veterans Administration Hospital, and the Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral.
