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landmark · official boundary

Warren House, The

A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Exterior.

A property designated a landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. At Exterior.

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.

Type
landmark
Authority
Boston Landmarks Commission
Within
Boston
Area
1000 square metres
Boundary
held as GeoJSON at /asset/warren-house-the.geojson — 940 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Warren House, The, a landmark in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by Boston Landmarks Commission. It encloses approximately 1000 square metres.
Rendered by the archive, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/warren-house-the.svg — 1403 bytes, SHA-256 2edba9b6b7ebcda6… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as /asset/warren-house-the.geojson (application/geo+json, 940 bytes, SHA-256 641bfe21971b52f7…). 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 Warren House, The, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Warren House, The is 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 Warren House, The?

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 Warren House, The?

1000 square metres, 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 Warren House, The 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/warren-house-the.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/warren-house-the.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 2edba9b6b7ebcda619ce8d38b7e6a13de0d5fe5560484967349e26a8caba413e.

What does the archive hold for Warren House, The, and under what licence?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Warren House, The 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

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:entity:warren-house-the
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/place/warren-house-the
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/place/warren-house-the.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
Licence
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
53
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portalarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizethe source's own name field became the record title; no name was supplied by the archivearchive-ingest 0.1.0
3reprojectthe source is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); geometry was set to that SRID without alteration of coordinatesarchive-ingest 0.1.0
4externalize-boundaryThe boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/warren-house-the.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/warren-house-the.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0