landmark · official boundary
Ames Building
A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Exterior only (Parcel 2885).
Place
official layer
An official boundary, promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it. It is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer.
- Filed by this archive as
- landmark
- Authority
- Boston Landmarks Commission
- Within
- Boston
- Area
- 581 square meters
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON at
/asset/6bf8d1685e7f05e6f63d3b0d9bfbbe37/ames-building.geojson— 839 bytes, exactly as accessioned
Map
image/svg+xml at /asset/da5ad3f14675f320729c20bc0f75db1b/ames-building.svg — 1408 bytes, SHA-256 da5ad3f14675f320… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0The exact coordinates are held separately as
/asset/6bf8d1685e7f05e6f63d3b0d9bfbbe37/ames-building.geojson (application/geo+json, 839 bytes, SHA-256 6bf8d1685e7f05e6…). The map is simplified for drawing; the boundary is not.Questions this record answers
Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.
Where is Ames Building, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?
Ames Building is recorded as a landmark, within Boston. The archive holds its boundary on the official layer: promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it.
Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.
Who drew the boundary of Ames Building?
Boston Landmarks Commission promulgated it. A boundary with no promulgating authority is an assertion rather than a fact, and this archive files those separately, as claims.
Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.
How large is Ames Building?
581 square meters, computed from the boundary the archive holds and not quoted from elsewhere.
Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.
What does the archive's map of Ames Building show?
A static map of the boundary, rendered by the archive on a server and never in a reader's browser, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/da5ad3f14675f320729c20bc0f75db1b/ames-building.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/6bf8d1685e7f05e6f63d3b0d9bfbbe37/ames-building.geojson.
Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest da5ad3f14675f320729c20bc0f75db1b66bf98146991a87f3aef4a0d3b66019e.
What does the wider world call Ames Building?
It asserts none, deliberately. 1 candidate was considered and not asserted: Q470245 (declined) — name agrees but type does not: this record is filed in this archive's `landmark` class, and Q470245 is classed on Wikidata as skyscraper. A wrong sameAs is worse than none: under OWL semantics it instructs a consumer to merge two things into one, so the archive asserts an identity only where it can defend it and publishes the refusal where it cannot. Every verdict is in the reconciliation ledger at /reconciliation.
Attested by: Q470245 — rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Ames Building, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0
What does the archive hold for Ames Building, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Ames Building from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 4 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.
Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.
Candidates the archive declined
Identities that were considered and not asserted. They are published here rather than merely filed, because a decision nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having looked. A candidate is DECLINED where the archive weighed it and refused it, and HELD where the archive asserts it nowhere on this record — most often because it is asserted on the archive's principal record for the same place, and asserting it twice would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart. Each row states which, in its own words. A wrong sameAs is worse than none. Every verdict is in the reconciliation ledger.
- Wikidata —
Q470245· declinedMatched against: rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Ames BuildingWhy: name agrees but type does not: this record is filed in this archive's `landmark` class, and Q470245 is classed on Wikidata as skyscraperMethod: label-type-geography within the P131=Q100 candidate pool · Decided 3 September 2026
Related records
- located in — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:entity:ames-building
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/ames-building
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/ames-building.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- License
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- 107
- 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 GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portal | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | the source's own name field became the record title; no name was supplied by the archive | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | reproject | the source is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); geometry was set to that SRID without alteration of coordinates | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 4 | externalize-boundary | The boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/6bf8d1685e7f05e6f63d3b0d9bfbbe37/ames-building.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/da5ad3f14675f320729c20bc0f75db1b/ames-building.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |