Brook Farm

The Boston Archive

landmark · official boundary

Brook Farm

A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Print Shop Exterior & Landscape Features (parcels 8964, 8965, 8966).

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: 69.03 hectares
Boundary: held as GeoJSON at /asset/4c728a70a87c6127f2b1307e9d277cb4/brook-farm.geojson — 2787 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Brook Farm, a landmark in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by Boston Landmarks Commission. It encloses approximately 69.03 hectares. Faint surrounding lines show the outline of the City of Boston, drawn as the union of its twenty-six official neighborhood boundaries. — Rendered by the archive, served as `image/svg+xml` at `/asset/98e28d5845bd685f895f5b81a4f495d7/brook-farm.svg` — 1888 bytes, SHA-256 `98e28d5845bd685f`… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as `/asset/4c728a70a87c6127f2b1307e9d277cb4/brook-farm.geojson` (`application/geo+json`, 2787 bytes, SHA-256 `4c728a70a87c6127`…). 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 Brook Farm, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Brook Farm 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 Brook Farm?

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 Brook Farm?

69.03 hectares, 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 Brook Farm 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/98e28d5845bd685f895f5b81a4f495d7/brook-farm.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/4c728a70a87c6127f2b1307e9d277cb4/brook-farm.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 98e28d5845bd685f895f5b81a4f495d7cbb04692bf463a7a4d057a1a4448252a.

What does the wider world call Brook Farm?

It asserts none, deliberately. 1 candidate was considered and not asserted: Q928662 (declined) — name agrees but type does not: this record is filed in this archive's `landmark` class, and Q928662 is classed on Wikidata as sect, farm, intentional community. 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: Q928662 — rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Brook Farm, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0

What does the archive hold for Brook Farm, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Brook Farm 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 — Q928662 · declinedMatched against: rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Brook FarmWhy: name agrees but type does not: this record is filed in this archive's `landmark` class, and Q928662 is classed on Wikidata as sect, farm, intentional communityMethod: label-type-geography within the P131=Q100 candidate pool · Decided 3 September 2026

Related records

located in — Boston

Identity

Identifier: urn:lemay:boston:entity:brook-farm
Canonical URL: https://boston.fyi/place/brook-farm
As JSON: https://boston.fyi/place/brook-farm.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: 104
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/4c728a70a87c6127f2b1307e9d277cb4/brook-farm.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/98e28d5845bd685f895f5b81a4f495d7/brook-farm.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`