landmark · official boundary
James Blake House (interior & exterior)
A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Exterior & Interior (parcel 2942).
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
- 4512 square meters
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON at
/asset/bc1736d7ab74426257b070476c7a0623/james-blake-house-interior-exterior.geojson— 3787 bytes, exactly as accessioned
Map
image/svg+xml at /asset/ae29f720ec8b219c60cda82adf826cf8/james-blake-house-interior-exterior.svg — 1643 bytes, SHA-256 ae29f720ec8b219c… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0The exact coordinates are held separately as
/asset/bc1736d7ab74426257b070476c7a0623/james-blake-house-interior-exterior.geojson (application/geo+json, 3787 bytes, SHA-256 bc1736d7ab744262…). 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 James Blake House (interior & exterior), and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?
James Blake House (interior & exterior) 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 James Blake House (interior & exterior)?
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 James Blake House (interior & exterior)?
4512 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 James Blake House (interior & exterior) 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/ae29f720ec8b219c60cda82adf826cf8/james-blake-house-interior-exterior.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/bc1736d7ab74426257b070476c7a0623/james-blake-house-interior-exterior.geojson.
Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest ae29f720ec8b219c60cda82adf826cf8bdd4900453420d75129a2e9561ea9027.
What does the archive hold for James Blake House (interior & exterior), and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of James Blake House (interior & exterior) 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
- located in — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:entity:james-blake-house-interior-exterior
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/james-blake-house-interior-exterior
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/james-blake-house-interior-exterior.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
- 157
- 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/bc1736d7ab74426257b070476c7a0623/james-blake-house-interior-exterior.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/ae29f720ec8b219c60cda82adf826cf8/james-blake-house-interior-exterior.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |