landmark · official boundary
Harvard Medical School
A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission.
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
- 4.53 hectares
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON at
/asset/223e507b26854ca7e55b30a9a7864e26/harvard-medical-school.geojson— 1679 bytes, exactly as accessioned
Map
image/svg+xml at /asset/73f50baf64f9c453efce31e71fd923ca/harvard-medical-school.svg — 1462 bytes, SHA-256 73f50baf64f9c453… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0The exact coordinates are held separately as
/asset/223e507b26854ca7e55b30a9a7864e26/harvard-medical-school.geojson (application/geo+json, 1679 bytes, SHA-256 223e507b26854ca7…). 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 Harvard Medical School, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?
Harvard Medical School 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 Harvard Medical School?
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 Harvard Medical School?
4.53 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 Harvard Medical School 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/73f50baf64f9c453efce31e71fd923ca/harvard-medical-school.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/223e507b26854ca7e55b30a9a7864e26/harvard-medical-school.geojson.
Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 73f50baf64f9c453efce31e71fd923ca69950e66587b9af9cc4d920b06c40340.
What else does the world call Harvard Medical School?
The archive reconciles this record to Wikidata (Q49121); English Wikipedia (Harvard_Medical_School). 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: Q49121 — Q49121 — label "Harvard Medical School", classed as medical school, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0. Harvard_Medical_School — schema:about Q49121 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0
What does the archive hold for Harvard Medical School, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Harvard Medical School 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 —
Q49121Method: label-type-geography (point inside the boundary) · Matched against: Q49121 — label "Harvard Medical School", classed as medical school · Decided 3 September 2026 - English Wikipedia —
Harvard_Medical_SchoolMethod: wikidata-sitelink · Matched against: schema:about Q49121 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia · Decided 3 September 2026
Related records
- located in — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:entity:harvard-medical-school
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/harvard-medical-school
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/harvard-medical-school.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
- 96
- 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/223e507b26854ca7e55b30a9a7864e26/harvard-medical-school.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/73f50baf64f9c453efce31e71fd923ca/harvard-medical-school.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |