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park · official boundary

Winthrop Square

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 55 Winthrop Street.

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
park
Authority
City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department
Within
Boston
Area
3646 square meters
Boundary
held as GeoJSON at /asset/61df2d8753ac941072b5eb92f24fe73f/winthrop-square.geojson — 2665 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Winthrop Square, a park in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. It encloses approximately 3646 square meters.
Rendered by the archive, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/33aaec636ade0b038bdb7d75d88fb06b/winthrop-square.svg — 1659 bytes, SHA-256 33aaec636ade0b03… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as /asset/61df2d8753ac941072b5eb92f24fe73f/winthrop-square.geojson (application/geo+json, 2665 bytes, SHA-256 61df2d8753ac9410…). 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 Winthrop Square, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Winthrop Square is recorded as a park, 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 Winthrop Square?

City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department 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 Winthrop Square?

3646 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 Winthrop Square 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/33aaec636ade0b038bdb7d75d88fb06b/winthrop-square.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/61df2d8753ac941072b5eb92f24fe73f/winthrop-square.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 33aaec636ade0b038bdb7d75d88fb06b7862cb9148b1ef34a0c2f71f41012663.

What else does the world call Winthrop Square?

The archive reconciles this record to Wikidata (Q49582256); English Wikipedia (Winthrop_Square_(Charlestown,_Boston)). Each identity carries the method that produced it. 1 further candidate was considered and refused, and it is named on this page under “candidates the archive declined”, each with its own reason — a decision nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having looked.

Attested by: Q49582256 — Q49582256 — label "Winthrop Square", classed as urban park, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0. Winthrop_Square_(Charlestown,_Boston) — schema:about Q49582256 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0

What does the archive hold for Winthrop Square, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Winthrop Square 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.

Candidates the archive declined

Identities that were considered and not asserted. They are published here rather than merely filed, because a decision nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having looked. A candidate is DECLINED where the archive weighed it and refused it, and HELD where the archive asserts it nowhere on this record — most often because it is asserted on the archive's principal record for the same place, and asserting it twice would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart. Each row states which, in its own words. A wrong sameAs is worse than none. Every verdict is in the reconciliation ledger.

Related records

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:entity:winthrop-square
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/place/winthrop-square
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/place/winthrop-square.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
252
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/61df2d8753ac941072b5eb92f24fe73f/winthrop-square.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/33aaec636ade0b038bdb7d75d88fb06b/winthrop-square.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0