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Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a western suburb of Boston and is part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, its population was 27,295, an increase of 10.4% from 2010. [2]
- Belmont Center
- Pleasant Street Historic District
- Mass Audubon’s Habitat Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary
- Homer House
- Beaver Brook Reservation
- Waltham Western Greenway
- Beaver Brook Spray Deck
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Fresh Pond Reservation
- Lone Tree Hill
Along a short but sweet stretch of Leonard Street, Belmont has an adorable town center. The way is lined with historic buildings and tasteful reproductions, with brick and clapboard facades. In front are wide sidewalks, with dainty street lamps, newly planted trees and lots of benches if you want to linger for a while. Side-by-side there’s a whole ...
Parallel to Leonard Street, Pleasant Street was on the main route between West Cambridge and Watertown in the 17th century, and was lined with large plots of land belonging to early Belmont families. The farmhouses were updated according to the fashion, and rebuilt over time, leaving a wonderful succession of grand houses in a spectrum of styles. T...
Perhaps the star of the many natural spaces in and around Belmont is this 90-acre Mass Audubon property, composed of meadows, ponds, vernal pools and big stands of deciduous and evergreen forest. The Habitat Education Center here is a delight, with nature-oriented exhibits for kids to browse, and a wealth of programs for all ages throughout the yea...
Posted on a rise at the corner of Pleasant Street and Concord Avenue is a stately Italianate mansion, built in 1853 by William Flagg Homer, uncle of the famous painter, Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Homer, the artist, lived nearby and spent plenty of time at his uncle’s house before moving to New York in 1859. Recognized by its splendid cupola and man...
A big swath of western Belmont is taken up by this public recreation area, managed by the DCR. The Beaver Brook Reservation comprises a north section, for passive recreation, and a more developed south section where there’s a much-loved spray deck that we’ll talk about later. Totalling more than 300 acres, the park dates back to 1893, and abounds w...
One of the great things about Belmont’s ample natural space is that much of it is connected by a path, linking some 20 individual parcels both here and in neighboring Waltham. This green corridor adds up to more than 1,200 acres of open land, with a wonderful variety of landscapes, diverse flora, and abundant wildlife, from birds of prey to painted...
An icon of the Beaver Brook Reservation is the spray deck and playground, first installed in the 1980s. This quickly became a beloved feature among families, and has been given a complete makeover in the last few years. The spray deck is part of a sizable self-contained area, made up of a dry playground and an historic covered picnic area. On hot s...
A seminal piece of landscape design, the Mount Auburn Cemetery rewrote the rulebook for what a burying ground could be when it opened in neighboring Watertown in 1831. Until then places of burial were simple and austere whether attached to churches or on town plots. Mount Auburn Cemetery on the other hand is a rolling arboretum that is a joy to vis...
One of many large bodies of water close by, Fresh Pond is a 155-acre kettle hole lake just past Belmont’s eastern boundary. The lake, serving as a reservoir for Cambridge, is enclosed by a large green buffer, adding up to another 165 acres. This contains a perimeter trail, nine-hole golf course (more later), sports facilities, a section of rail tra...
Adjoining the Beaver Brook Reservation is a smaller parcel of land managed by the Town of Belmont and the Land Management Committee. Lone Tree Hill is a blissful 88 acres of meadows and woods, previously belonging to the McLean Hospital, which relocated to Belmont from Somerville in 1895. A memorable feature here is the grand Pine Allée, running al...
Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a western suburb of Boston and is part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area . As of the 2020 U.S. census, its population was 27,295, an increase of 10.4% from 2010.
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Belmont Town Offices 455 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478 PH: (617) 993-2600
The original settlement spread inland extensively into the present towns of Watertown, Waltham, Weston, Lincoln, and parts of Cambridge and Belmont. In 1738, Waltham seceded from Watertown, and the future Belmont was now part of three towns. In 1805, Frederick Tudor began cutting ice on Fresh Pond.
Known to longtime residents as “The Town of Homes”, Belmont is a primarily residential community located in close proximity to the region’s economic centers. A part of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Belmont is situated on Cambridge’s western border and is just 8 miles from Downtown Boston.
