landmark · official boundary
Public Garden
A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Bounded by: Beacon, Arlington, Boylston, Charles.
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
- 9.51 hectares
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON at
/asset/d6bc95dd94af3258fad39ca9cb44f0f6/public-garden.geojson— 5380 bytes, exactly as accessioned
Map
image/svg+xml at /asset/3d99b43174dae55a5671d444fb895423/public-garden.svg — 1489 bytes, SHA-256 3d99b43174dae55a… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0The exact coordinates are held separately as
/asset/d6bc95dd94af3258fad39ca9cb44f0f6/public-garden.geojson (application/geo+json, 5380 bytes, SHA-256 d6bc95dd94af3258…). 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 Public Garden, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?
Public Garden 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 Public Garden?
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 Public Garden?
9.51 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 Public Garden 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/3d99b43174dae55a5671d444fb895423/public-garden.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/d6bc95dd94af3258fad39ca9cb44f0f6/public-garden.geojson.
Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 3d99b43174dae55a5671d444fb89542306a730226810f58feefbc981afc2853a.
What does the archive hold for Public Garden, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Public Garden 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). 5 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:public-garden
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/public-garden
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/public-garden.json
- Version
- 2 · last changed 13 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
- 20
- 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/d6bc95dd94af3258fad39ca9cb44f0f6/public-garden.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/3d99b43174dae55a5671d444fb895423/public-garden.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 5 | merge | carried the provenance chain of /place/public-garden-2, the `open-space` layer's record of this place, whose boundary coincides with this record's (IoU 0.9999), and withdrew that record as a tombstone naming this one | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
Provenance carried from merged records
- Carried from
- /place/public-garden-2
- 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
- 227
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
- Carried
- 13 September 2026. /place/public-garden and /place/public-garden-2 are one place: the boundaries two City layers drew coincide (IoU 0.9999) and both records name it Public Garden.