Best of Fenway–Kenmore

The full route

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   Boston UniversityStart · University

   Private research university along Commonwealth Avenue and the Charles River, chartered in 1839; Martin Luther King Jr.

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   Second Church in Boston5 min walk walk · Building / Landmark

   One of colonial Boston's earliest congregations, gathered in 1649 and long led by the Mather dynasty — Increase and Cotton both preached from its pulpit..

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   Second Church, Boston1 min walk walk · Building / Landmark

   Boston's Second Church gathered in 1649 and counted Increase and Cotton Mather among its ministers; its final home stood here near Audubon Circle before the congregation merged into First Church in 1970..

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   Fenway Park8 min walk walk · Building / Landmark

   The oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball (1912), home of the Red Sox, the Green Monster and the lone red seat in the right-field bleachers..

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   The Citgo Sign4 min walk walk · Building / Landmark

   The 3,600-square-foot double-sided sign over Kenmore Square (1965) — saved from demolition by public outcry in 1983, and the beacon that tells marathoners one mile remains..

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   Museum of Fine Arts, Boston13 min walk walk · Museum / Cultural

   One of the most comprehensive art museums in the world — nearly 500,000 works, from Egyptian funerary art to John Singer Sargent’s murals..