Dataset
Boston Landmarks Commission (BLC) Historic Districts
<p>The boundaries of locally designated historic districts in Boston that require design review for exterior alterations to buildings.</p>
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 12
- Keywords
- blc, boston, ckan, districts, historic
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-landmarks-commission-blc-historic-districts
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 3605 | 1935dc40ff40ebbd4c68828959f7f1752fef4bbdfcc13e5742a2c9f000e55461 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 108827 | 474ecb3d0171a0883eb7fc6bb0657df892d7ae93133eee37d578daaab19175f9 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 30118 | 8a3ae93ead2411627fdc4f0266d1f60d88c13f0b29c96e897cbd71b170b2e1e3 | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
SURVEYID | text | |
HIST_NAME | text | |
PLACE_NAME | text | |
YEAR | text | |
STYLE | text | |
USE_TYPE | text | |
TYPE | text | |
STATUS | text | |
URL | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:boston-landmarks-commission-blc-historic-districts
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-landmarks-commission-blc-historic-districts
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-landmarks-commission-blc-historic-districts.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- boston-landmarks-commission-blc-historic-districts
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |