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It is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], and forms part of [[Route 16 (Massachusetts)\|Route 16]]. '''Mystic Valley Parkway''' is a [[parkway]] in [[Arlington, Massachusetts\|Arlington]], [[Medford, Massachusetts\|Medford]], [[Somerville, Massachusetts\|Somerville]], and [[Winchester, Massachusetts\|Winchester]], Massachusetts, United States. It is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], and forms part of [[Route 16 (Massachusetts)\|Route 16]]. The parkway runs roughly north-south from the [[Middlesex Fells Reservation\|Middlesex Fells]] in Winchester, down the [[Aberjona River]] valley, and along the east side of the [[Mystic Lakes]] into Medford. This section follows the path of the old [[Middlesex Canal]]. It then crosses the [[Mystic River]] into Arlington (sharing a bridge with [[Massachusetts Route 60]]), and curves to follow the river as it runs east-west through Arlington. A short branch also runs along the southern shore of the Lower Mystic Lake from Route 60 where it ends at a junction with [[U.S. Route 3]] and [[Massachusetts Route 2A]]. It meets the [[Alewife Brook Parkway]] (and joins with [[Massachusetts Route 16]]) at a rotary near where [[Alewife Brook]] empties into the Mystic, and then continues to generally follow the course of the Mystic River downstream, crossing it several times before ending at the [[Revere Beach Parkway]] where both meet [[Massachusetts Route 28]]. ==Route description== ~~[[File:Mystic Valley Parkway - General Plan, November 1895.jpg\|thumb\|left\|The Olmsted plan of the original parkway, 1895.]]~~ [[File:Mystic valley parkway.png\|thumb\|left\|Mystic Valley Parkway, Arlington, Medford, Somerville, and Winchester]] The parkway, with surrounding landscape, forms part of [[Boston]]'s Metropolitan Park District, established in 1893. The parkway itself was designed in 1894-1895 by the [[Olmsted Brothers]], the noted landscape architects, with [[Charles Eliot (landscape architect)\|Charles Eliot]] taking a lead role. It was originally created as one section of a web of pleasure roads designed for their aesthetics, as part of a comprehensive plan for green spaces in and around Boston. The parkway runs roughly north–south from the [[Middlesex Fells Reservation\|Middlesex Fells]] in Winchester, down the [[Aberjona River]] valley, and along the east side of the [[Mystic Lakes]] into Medford. This section follows the path of the old [[Middlesex Canal]]. It then crosses the [[Mystic River]] into Arlington (sharing a bridge with [[Massachusetts Route 60]]), and curves to follow the river as it runs east–west through Arlington. A short branch also runs along the southern shore of the Lower Mystic Lake from Route 60 where it ends at a junction with [[U.S. Route 3]] and [[Massachusetts Route 2A]]. It meets [[Alewife Brook Parkway]] (and joins with [[Massachusetts Route 16]]) at a rotary near where [[Alewife Brook]] empties into the Mystic, and then continues to generally follow the course of the Mystic River downstream, crossing it several times before ending at [[Revere Beach Parkway]] where both meet [[Massachusetts Route 28]]. ==History== The parkway, with surrounding landscape, forms part of [[Boston]]'s Metropolitan Park District, established in 1893. The parkway itself was designed in 1894–1895 by the [[Olmsted Brothers]], the noted landscape architects, with [[Charles Eliot (landscape architect)\|Charles Eliot]] taking a lead role. It was originally created as one section of a web of pleasure roads designed for their aesthetics, as part of a comprehensive plan for green spaces in and around Boston. [[File:MiddlesexCanalPlaque.jpg\|thumb\|Middlesex Canal Plaque on the Mystic Valley Parkway route.]] Lantern slides in the Library of Congress collection, Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, offer views of the Parkways in published in 1895.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/mhsalad.030067\|title=American Memory from the Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/mhsalad.030068\|title=American Memory from the Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/mhsalad.030069\|title=American Memory from the Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/mhsalad.030070\|title=American Memory from the Library of Congress}}</ref> It now forms part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, and on January 18, 2006, was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as a historic district. ==Major intersections== [[File:Mystic Valley Parkway - General Plan, November 1895.jpg\|thumb\|center\|500px\|The Olmsted plan of the original parkway, 1895.]] {{jcttop\|state=MA\|county=Middlesex\|length_ref=<ref name=googlemaps/>}} {{MAint \|location=Winchester \|mile=0.0 \|road=Bacon Street }} {{MAint \|location=Arlington \|mile=1.9 \|road={{jct\|state=MA\|MA\|60\|name1=High Street\|US\|3\|MA\|2A\|to2=yes\|city1=Winchester}} \|notes=Access to US 3 / MA 2A via {{convert\|0.7\|mi\|1\|adj=on}} west branch of parkway<ref name=branch>{{google maps \|url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/42.4205844,-71.1434414/42.419778,-71.1522432/@42.4211396,-71.149976,17z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m5!3m4!1m2!1d-71.148695!2d42.4222792!3s0x89e3765eff028b8d:0xf55e716e6703d0de!1m0!3e0 \|access-date=May 25, 2019}}</ref> }} {{MAint \|location=Medford \|lspan=4 \|mile=2.8 \|type=trans \|road={{jct\|state=MA\|MA\|16\|dir1=west\|name1=[[Alewife Brook Parkway]]}} \|notes=Route 16 continues south }} {{MAint \|mile=4.1 \|road={{jct\|state=MA\|MA\|38\|name1=Main Street\|city1=Medford\|city2=Somerville}} \|notes=Interchange }} {{MAint \|mile=4.2 \|type=incomplete \|road={{jct\|state=MA\|I\|93\|city1=Boston\|location2=[[Concord, NH]]}} \|notes=Interchange; exit 22 on I-93; no direct westbound access }} {{MAint \|mile=6.0 \|road={{jct\|state=MA\|MA\|28\|name1=[[Fellsway]]\|MA\|16\|dir2=east\|city1=Charlestown\|city2=Boston\|city3=Stoneham\|city4=Reading\|city5=Everett\|city6=Revere}} \|notes=Route 16 continues east as [[Revere Beach Parkway]] }} {{jctbtm\|keys=incomplete,trans}} ==References== {{reflist}} * Charles Eliot, "The Boston Metropolitan Reservations", ''The New England magazine'', Volume 21, Issue 1, September 1896. * William B. de las Casas, "The Boston Metropolitan Park System", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 35, No. 2, Public Recreation Facilities (March, 1910), pp. 64–70. * Charles William Eliot, ''Charles Eliot: Landscape Architect'', Houghton, Mifflin, 1902. ~~{{National Register of Historic Places}}~~ ==External list== {{commons category-inline}} {{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts}} {{Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston}} [[Category:Parkways in Massachusetts]] [[Category:Transportation in Middlesex County, Massachusetts]] ~~[[Category:Transportation in Norfolk County, Massachusetts]]~~ [[Category:Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts]] ~~[[Category:Buildings and structures in Norfolk County, Massachusetts]]~~ [[Category:Buildings and structures in Arlington, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Medford, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Somerville, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Winchester, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Transportation in Somerville, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts]] [[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Somerville, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts]]