landmark · official boundary
Massachusetts Historical Society
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
- 1028 square meters
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON at
/asset/419e4a44f9e92bc0c88ef4aeba8388bf/massachusetts-historical-society.geojson— 898 bytes, exactly as accessioned
Map
image/svg+xml at /asset/31e21bba13ed673c8dc037ff50e7420e/massachusetts-historical-society.svg — 1460 bytes, SHA-256 31e21bba13ed673c… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0The exact coordinates are held separately as
/asset/419e4a44f9e92bc0c88ef4aeba8388bf/massachusetts-historical-society.geojson (application/geo+json, 898 bytes, SHA-256 419e4a44f9e92bc0…). 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 Massachusetts Historical Society, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?
Massachusetts Historical Society 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 Massachusetts Historical Society?
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 Massachusetts Historical Society?
1028 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 Massachusetts Historical Society 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/31e21bba13ed673c8dc037ff50e7420e/massachusetts-historical-society.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/419e4a44f9e92bc0c88ef4aeba8388bf/massachusetts-historical-society.geojson.
Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 31e21bba13ed673c8dc037ff50e7420eb3088ba342a4fbe1da0a29a9a4b06200.
What else does the world call Massachusetts Historical Society?
The archive reconciles this record to Wikidata (Q6784286); English Wikipedia (Massachusetts_Historical_Society). 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: Q6784286 — Q6784286 — label "Massachusetts Historical Society", classed as library, nonprofit organization, historical society, archives, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0. Massachusetts_Historical_Society — schema:about Q6784286 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0
What does the archive hold for Massachusetts Historical Society, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Massachusetts Historical Society 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 —
Q6784286Method: label-type-geography (proximity) · Matched against: Q6784286 — label "Massachusetts Historical Society", classed as library, nonprofit organization, historical society, archives · 51 m apart · Decided 3 September 2026 - English Wikipedia —
Massachusetts_Historical_SocietyMethod: wikidata-sitelink · Matched against: schema:about Q6784286 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia · Decided 3 September 2026
Related records
- located in — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:entity:massachusetts-historical-society
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/massachusetts-historical-society
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/massachusetts-historical-society.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
- 68
- 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/419e4a44f9e92bc0c88ef4aeba8388bf/massachusetts-historical-society.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/31e21bba13ed673c8dc037ff50e7420e/massachusetts-historical-society.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |