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district · official boundary

Grove Hall

A Main Streets commercial district as bounded by the City of Boston.

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
district
Authority
City of Boston Main Streets
Within
Boston
Area
23.32 hectares
Boundary
held as GeoJSON at /asset/0a6b7f3b937dd931ac4a5e9018144767/grove-hall.geojson — 12207 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Grove Hall, a district in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by City of Boston Main Streets. It encloses approximately 23.32 hectares.
Rendered by the archive, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/04ddd87cb4ce38ebbe2844b17a4bdeb0/grove-hall.svg — 4387 bytes, SHA-256 04ddd87cb4ce38eb… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as /asset/0a6b7f3b937dd931ac4a5e9018144767/grove-hall.geojson (application/geo+json, 12207 bytes, SHA-256 0a6b7f3b937dd931…). 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 Grove Hall, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Grove Hall is recorded as a district, 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 Grove Hall?

City of Boston Main Streets 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 Grove Hall?

23.32 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 Grove Hall 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/04ddd87cb4ce38ebbe2844b17a4bdeb0/grove-hall.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/0a6b7f3b937dd931ac4a5e9018144767/grove-hall.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 04ddd87cb4ce38ebbe2844b17a4bdeb02802d1256768e7ed2897f67a90669d84.

What does the archive hold for Grove Hall, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Grove Hall 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.

Related records

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:entity:grove-hall
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/place/grove-hall
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/place/grove-hall.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
10
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portalarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizethe source's own name field became the record title; no name was supplied by the archivearchive-ingest 0.1.0
3reprojectthe source is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); geometry was set to that SRID without alteration of coordinatesarchive-ingest 0.1.0
4externalize-boundaryThe boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/0a6b7f3b937dd931ac4a5e9018144767/grove-hall.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/04ddd87cb4ce38ebbe2844b17a4bdeb0/grove-hall.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0