landmark · official boundary
Old Corner Bookstore
A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Exterior Only.
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
- 650 square meters
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON at
/asset/743a5665a970d48aaae9a61e0e631db2/old-corner-bookstore.geojson— 888 bytes, exactly as accessioned
Map
image/svg+xml at /asset/46918759ed0adf9dd22a470c42ce91c8/old-corner-bookstore.svg — 1424 bytes, SHA-256 46918759ed0adf9d… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0The exact coordinates are held separately as
/asset/743a5665a970d48aaae9a61e0e631db2/old-corner-bookstore.geojson (application/geo+json, 888 bytes, SHA-256 743a5665a970d48a…). 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 Old Corner Bookstore, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?
Old Corner Bookstore 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 Old Corner Bookstore?
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 Old Corner Bookstore?
650 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 Old Corner Bookstore 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/46918759ed0adf9dd22a470c42ce91c8/old-corner-bookstore.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/743a5665a970d48aaae9a61e0e631db2/old-corner-bookstore.geojson.
Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 46918759ed0adf9dd22a470c42ce91c8b89d71ecfdf13936948acce873ccd11d.
What else does the world call Old Corner Bookstore?
The archive reconciles this record to Wikidata (Q387456); English Wikipedia (Old_Corner_Bookstore). 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: Q387456 — Q387456 — label "Old Corner Bookstore", classed as organization, commercial building, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0. Old_Corner_Bookstore — schema:about Q387456 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0
What does the archive hold for Old Corner Bookstore, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Old Corner Bookstore 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 —
Q387456Method: label-type-geography (point inside the boundary) · Matched against: Q387456 — label "Old Corner Bookstore", classed as organization, commercial building · Decided 3 September 2026 - English Wikipedia —
Old_Corner_BookstoreMethod: wikidata-sitelink · Matched against: schema:about Q387456 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia · Decided 3 September 2026
Related records
- located in — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:entity:old-corner-bookstore
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/old-corner-bookstore
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/old-corner-bookstore.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
- 63
- 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/743a5665a970d48aaae9a61e0e631db2/old-corner-bookstore.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/46918759ed0adf9dd22a470c42ce91c8/old-corner-bookstore.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |