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Lagrange Streets are briefly closed during the race. It is a benefit event hosted by the Bligh family of the adjacent Corrib Pub and Restaurant that has raised over half a million dollars over the years for a variety of local causes. The Parkway Little League Parade, is a small event to start little league baseball and softball for the areas of West Roxbury and Roslindale. Young baseball and softball players dress up in their team uniforms and march from Fallon field in Roslindale to the Guy Cammarata Complex in West Roxbury. The Shamrock Shootout is an annual street hockey tournament that takes place in West Roxbury. The event was started in 2008 for neighborhood kids who had school off for Evacuation Day. The tournament is free with registration.
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operates the West Roxbury Branch Library. In 1876 the city library took over the West Roxbury Free Library, establishing a delivery station in West Roxbury. The West Roxbury facility was upgraded to a library branch in 1896. In the years of 1921 and 1922 a library building was constructed on the West
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in 1945, moved its headquarters to West Roxbury in 1978, and had a membership of 15,000 in the mid-1970s. The club closed in 2011 due to financial troubles and declining membership (the club had around 300 members at the time, mostly seniors). Support from the city council and state lawmakers allowed
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Ambulance 5 that posts at the intersection of West Roxbury Parkway at Centre St and Paramedic 5 stationed at the Faulkner Hospital provide EMS service, and there are two Boston fire stations, Ladder 25 & Engine 30 on Centre Street and Engine 55 on Washington Street. The Needham Branch of the
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The Corrib Classic 5K Road Race is held annually at Billings Field, LaGrange Street, the first Sunday in June. Since starting in 1994 with 250 runners the event has grown into the largest community event, attracting about 2000 runners, plus event volunteers, families and friends. Centre and
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Until the 2000 census West Roxbury's population had been recorded as declining slightly, but it increased at the 2010 census. This could be due to more rigorous counting procedures instituted by the City of Boston and Massachusetts in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid losing the state's tenth
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Roxbury Branch Library current site. In 1973, a fire destroyed the adjacent West Roxbury Congregational Church. The land formerly occupied by the church was donated to the trustees of the library system so an addition could be built. The addition opened to the public on 24 September 1989.
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Founded in 1630 (contemporaneously with Boston), West Roxbury was originally part of the town of Roxbury and was mainly used as farmland. West Roxbury seceded from Roxbury in 1851, and was annexed by Boston in 1874. The town included the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and Roslindale.
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line. Dating back to 1875, the original plot was full by 1896 but subsequently expanded multiple times. There are graves as recent as 1980 in the West Roxbury portion; the Dedham portion is still active. Chestnut Hill's Congregation Mishka Tefila currently owns the cemetery.
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neighborhood. In the twentieth century, upwardly mobile Irish Americans moved to the neighborhood from elsewhere in Boston. By the first decade of the 21st century, an influx of new residents contributed to increased ethnic diversity in the neighborhood.
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hospital is located opposite the Charles River on the VFW Parkway near the Dedham line. West Roxbury is home to several places of worship, including three Catholic parishes, churches of various Protestant denominations, and a Jewish synagogue.
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is a local non-profit that works to enhance and promote the business district. The neighborhood has some two-family houses but mostly single family homes; many of Boston's civil servants live there.
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operates public schools. Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School, William Ohrenberger School, Joyce Kilmer K-8 School, and Patrick Lyndon K-8 School are in West Roxbury. The three schools in the
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At Centre and Corey Streets, the Theodore Parker Church features seven stained glass windows made by the Tiffany Studios between 1894 and 1927. The original church, designed in 1890 by
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by Henry F. Walling, which included West Roxbury at that time. A very large and detailed color map. Also see the detailed side map of Jamaica Plain on the top left side of the map.
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in 1962 were at 68 percent of market values while the assessed values in West Roxbury were at 41 percent of market values, and the researchers
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Like its neighboring communities, West Roxbury's residential development grew with the construction of the West Roxbury branch of the
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and the western end of Roxbury. When West Roxbury was still part of Roxbury, the town's first burial place was what is today
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operates the West Roxbury Post Office in West Roxbury. West Roxbury is represented by a city councilor, Ben Weber.
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operates the Holy Name Parish School as well as the St. Theresa of Avila School in West Roxbury.
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Oldman, Oliver; Aaron, Henry (1965). "Assessment-Sales Ratios Under the Boston Property Tax".
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the club to obtain a liquor license and reopen, and by 2013 the group had about 800 members.
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were located in West Roxbury, but closed in 2019 due to structural issues in the building.
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West Roxbury is a neighborhood located in the southwest corner of the city of Boston.
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A hundred comparative historic photos, 1850–2000, of the area around Centre Street.
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A cultural remix in West Roxbury: Neighborhood keeps charm with influx of outsiders
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Boston United Hand in Hand Cemetery is located on Centre Street straddling the
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from January 1, 1960 to March 31, 1964, found that the assessed values in
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are also buried here. War veterans interred are detailed in the article
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Before 1630, the area was inhabited by the Wampanoag Indian Tribe.
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to the southeast. West Roxbury is often mistakenly confused with
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See You at the Hall: Boston's Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance
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Local Attachments, The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood
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Neighborhood of Boston in Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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West Roxbury's main commercial thoroughfare is Centre Street.
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After 65 years, Irish Social Club of Boston closes abruptly
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of 13,769 properties sold within the City of Boston under
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Commuter Rail network has three stations in West Roxbury (
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West Roxbury is a neighborhood located in the southwest corner of the city of Boston.
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