Edward Everett House

The Boston Archive

landmark · official boundary

Edward Everett House

A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Exterior & landscape features (ward 2, parcel 3733).

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: 437 square meters
Boundary: held as GeoJSON at /asset/df4c398c330a32757be78dc2ac3aaea4/edward-everett-house.geojson — 863 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Edward Everett House, a landmark in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by Boston Landmarks Commission. It encloses approximately 437 square meters. — Rendered by the archive, served as `image/svg+xml` at `/asset/bb4c59fb4c75dea26412c8fc5b2add16/edward-everett-house.svg` — 1424 bytes, SHA-256 `bb4c59fb4c75dea2`… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as `/asset/df4c398c330a32757be78dc2ac3aaea4/edward-everett-house.geojson` (`application/geo+json`, 863 bytes, SHA-256 `df4c398c330a3275`…). 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 Edward Everett House, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Edward Everett House 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 Edward Everett House?

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 Edward Everett House?

437 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 Edward Everett House 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/bb4c59fb4c75dea26412c8fc5b2add16/edward-everett-house.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/df4c398c330a32757be78dc2ac3aaea4/edward-everett-house.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest bb4c59fb4c75dea26412c8fc5b2add165e9d3de336af49928c7e235f0b0f01ed.

What else does the world call Edward Everett House?

The archive reconciles this record to Wikidata (Q131684139). Each identity carries the method that produced it, and any candidate the archive did not assert is published in the reconciliation ledger rather than left absent.

Attested by: Q131684139 — Q131684139 — label "Edward Everett House", classed as house, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0

What does the archive hold for Edward Everett House, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Edward Everett House 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 — Q131684139Method: label-type-geography (point inside the boundary) · Matched against: Q131684139 — label "Edward Everett House", classed as house · Decided 3 September 2026

Related records

located in — Boston

Identity

Identifier: urn:lemay:boston:entity:edward-everett-house
Canonical URL: https://boston.fyi/place/edward-everett-house
As JSON: https://boston.fyi/place/edward-everett-house.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: 66
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/df4c398c330a32757be78dc2ac3aaea4/edward-everett-house.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/bb4c59fb4c75dea26412c8fc5b2add16/edward-everett-house.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`