Washington Street (Boston) - Other Washington Streets in Boston

Other Washington Streets in Boston

There are two other significant and two minor streets with the same name in Boston.

• In the Dorchester neighborhood, Washington Street extends approximately 2.8 miles (4.5 km) from Blue Hill Avenue near Geneva Avenue to Dorchester Avenue at the southern boundary of the city.
• In Allston-Brighton, Washington Street begins at the boundary with Brookline and extends about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the boundary with Newton near Burton Street. As a whole, it begins in Brookline Village, and crosses Brookline, Allston, Brighton, Newton, and Wellesley, ending at Wellesley's boundary with Natick, a total of almost 13.5 miles (21.7 km). It is the main east-west street in Brighton.
• In Hyde Park, Washington Street extends approximately seven blocks in the small portion of Hyde Park on the east side of the Neponset River.
• In Charlestown, Washington Street begins at a dead end near the intersection of Austin Street and New Rutherford Avenue and extends three blocks to Harvard Street. This is two blocks from the north end of the Charlestown Bridge and three blocks from the beginning of the Washington Street that is the subject of this article.