Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill is a historic residential district in central Boston, rising just north of the Common and crowned by the gold-domed Massachusetts State House. Developed largely in the early nineteenth century, it is celebrated for rows of Federal-style brick townhouses, gas lamps and steep cobbled streets, most famously the narrow, flower-lined Acorn Street. The neighbourhood was also a centre of the free Black community and abolitionist movement, marked today by a Black Heritage Trail.