landmark · official boundary

Boston City Hall

A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Exterior Envelope and Certain Interior Spaces (Refer to Study Report).

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

1.14 hectares

Boundary

held as GeoJSON at /asset/a45733e52e5ed0a2c79d701c7fc0bd36/boston-city-hall.geojson — 819 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

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.

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 — Q250773Method: label-type-geography (point inside the boundary) · Matched against: Q250773 — label "Boston City Hall", classed as city hall · Decided 3 September 2026
• English Wikipedia — Boston_City_HallMethod: wikidata-sitelink · Matched against: schema:about Q250773 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia · 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 — Q131509887 · declinedMatched against: rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Johnson HallWhy: the name matched an ALIAS of Q131509887, whose own label is "Johnson Hall" — a different name, not this record's name wearing a qualifier. An alias is a name a thing also answers to; on an entity called something else it is no evidence of identity, and no amount of proximity makes it any.Method: label-type-geography within the P131=Q100 candidate pool · Decided 3 September 2026
• Wikidata — Q7083686 · declinedMatched against: rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Old City HallWhy: the name matched an ALIAS of Q7083686, whose own label is "Old City Hall" — a different name, not this record's name wearing a qualifier. An alias is a name a thing also answers to; on an entity called something else it is no evidence of identity, and no amount of proximity makes it any.Method: label-type-geography within the P131=Q100 candidate pool · Decided 3 September 2026

Related records

• located in — Boston

Identity

Identifier

urn:lemay:boston:entity:boston-city-hall

Canonical URL

https://boston.fyi/place/boston-city-hall

As JSON

https://boston.fyi/place/boston-city-hall.json

Version

1 · last changed 2 September 2026