Building / Landmark · 1788
Hollis Street Church (1788)
Hollis Street Church (1788), Boston.
Photograph · Wikimedia Commons
Why it matters
One of the oldest things still standing in the region — dated to 1788, and tied to 1 other entities across four centuries of the city’s record.
Open the full civic recordCurrent pulse, routes, recommendations, and memory
Living object
Now, then, future
Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.
Now
Thenlively. Best now: the older layer.
1752: Concert hall in Boston, Massachusetts.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
Current modegolden hour
Historical echoConcert Hall (Boston)
Connected eventAmerica’s 250th — July 4, 2026
Pulse
How it feels right now
Current energylively
Best nowthe older layer
Best timegolden hour
storiedlivelyhistoric
Rain scoreexcellent
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Laptop friendlinesslow
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
Student presencehigh
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Tourist pressurelow
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Historic densityextreme
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Serendipityhigh
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Turn this into a walk
Routes with a point of view
What should I see next?
Chosen moves from here
The editor's hand
Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
- Established
- 1788
- Graph connections
- 1
Plan your visit
Get there
In popular culture♪Please Come to Boston (1974) — Dave Loggins
In the graph 1 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Hollis Street Church (1788) in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Located in
Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
Museum / Cultural · 1 min walk
Hollis Street Theater
Building / Landmark · 1 min walk
Hollis Street Church (1811)
Building / Landmark · 1 min walk
Site of Francis Jackson's Home
An unexpected connection
Hollis Street Church (1788) is linked, through the graph, to Beacon Hill — neighborhood, 14 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess
NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
Also in Beacon HillShares a neighborhood
More landmarksOther landmarks in the graph
From the Revolutionary eraOf the same period
Visitors also exploreReached through the same connections
One record, 1 framing cross-property publishing — never duplicated
How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it
○Source qualityBest source is open reference
○Independent corroboration1 source
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
○Institutional backingNo primary source yet
○Record completeness60% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
Wikidata Q131438014 Open reference
The same entity, elsewhere
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density13
1 connection
Record coverage56
metadata completeness
Graph authority23
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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