landmark · official boundary
Berkeley Building
A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Exterior only.
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
- 1667 square meters
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON at
/asset/d21a3203afda8b78b7b42f410f8a3f23/berkeley-building.geojson— 769 bytes, exactly as accessioned
Map
image/svg+xml at /asset/9f23f21fd673781b610bf70ee0f0bd02/berkeley-building.svg — 1380 bytes, SHA-256 9f23f21fd673781b… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0The exact coordinates are held separately as
/asset/d21a3203afda8b78b7b42f410f8a3f23/berkeley-building.geojson (application/geo+json, 769 bytes, SHA-256 d21a3203afda8b78…). 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 Berkeley Building, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?
Berkeley 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 Berkeley 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 Berkeley Building?
1667 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 Berkeley 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/9f23f21fd673781b610bf70ee0f0bd02/berkeley-building.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/d21a3203afda8b78b7b42f410f8a3f23/berkeley-building.geojson.
Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 9f23f21fd673781b610bf70ee0f0bd0244fcfa4485d46b3e5b601018b9655ffc.
What else does the world call Berkeley Building?
The archive reconciles this record to Wikidata (Q131828602). Each identity carries the method that produced it. 1 further candidate was considered and refused, and it is named on this page under “candidates the archive declined”, each with its own reason — a decision nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having looked.
Attested by: Q131828602 — Q131828602 — label "Berkeley Building", classed as building, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0
What does the archive hold for Berkeley Building, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Berkeley 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.
This record, elsewhere
Identities the archive asserts, each named with the method that produced it. Candidates the archive did not assert here are held in the reconciliation ledger and are shown below, under candidates the archive declined, and in the reconciliation ledger. Each method is stated in full — the procedure, the value it was compared against, and the date it was decided — in this record's machine rendering.
- Wikidata —
Q131828602Method: label-type-geography (point inside the boundary) · Matched against: Q131828602 — label "Berkeley Building", classed as building · Decided 3 September 2026
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 —
Q4891990· declinedMatched against: skos:altLabel = one of this record's names, on Q4891990 labeled "Berkeley Building"Why: declined by label precedence: Q4891990 answers to this record's name as an alias, while Q131828602 is labeled with it. An item labeled with a name outranks one that merely answers to it.Method: label-precedence within the surviving candidates · Decided 3 September 2026
Related records
- located in — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:entity:berkeley-building
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/berkeley-building
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/berkeley-building.json
- Version
- 2 · last changed 13 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
- 67
- 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/d21a3203afda8b78b7b42f410f8a3f23/berkeley-building.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/9f23f21fd673781b610bf70ee0f0bd02/berkeley-building.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |