Building / Landmark · Boston

NANTUCKET Lightship/LV112

NANTUCKET Lightship/LV112, Boston.

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Photograph · Beyond My Ken / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Why it matters

Part of the connected record of this place — 1 relationship link it into the wider graph, each one a thread worth pulling.

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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

quiet enough to notice details. Best now: one good detour.

Then

1844: Most Holy Redemeer Church, Boston.

Future

2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.

Current modemidday

Historical echoMost Holy Redemeer Church

Connected eventAmerica’s 250th — July 4, 2026

Pulse

How it feels right now

Current energyquiet enough to notice details

Best nowone good detour

Best timemidday

East Boston

Rain scoremodest

Indoor escapes within a few blocks.

Laptop friendlinesslow

Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.

Student presencelow

How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.

Tourist pressurelow

Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.

Historic densitylight

Older records and historical edges around this object.

Serendipityquiet

Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.

Turn this into a walk

Routes with a point of view

Make it walkableShow me the best 45 minutes from here

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What should I see next?

Chosen moves from here

01The right next stopICA WatershedClose enough to feel spontaneous, different enough to change the texture of the visit.4 min walk 02The connection you would miss on a mapEast BostonA civic relationship that is easier to understand once you see the graph.Neighborhood

The editor's hand

Human recommendations

The Civic Graph Editorial DeskEditorial standardLook for the older layer before you move on. This object is connected to more than its facade suggests.Samuel Gridley Howe →

Civic memory

What this meant before

1844Most Holy Redemeer ChurchMost Holy Redemeer Church, Boston.

Address: 256 Marginal Street, Boston
Online: Official site ↗
Graph connections: 1

Plan your visit

Websitenantucketlightshiplv-112.org ↗

Get there

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In the graph 1 relationships — first-class data, not links

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Located in

East Boston

Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk

Museum / Cultural · 4 min walk

ICA Watershed

Building / Landmark · 6 min walk

Ralph Correale Memorial

Building / Landmark · 7 min walk

Stephen J. McHugh Memorial

An unexpected connection

NANTUCKET Lightship/LV112 is linked, through the graph, to East Boston — neighborhood, 13 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

ICA WatershedMuseum / Cultural Ralph Correale MemorialBuilding / Landmark Stephen J. McHugh MemorialBuilding / Landmark Mothers of Maverick StreetBuilding / Landmark

Also in East BostonShares a neighborhood

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How this is scored →

○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

OpenStreetMap way/902425883 Open reference

The same entity, elsewhere

OpenStreetMapway/902425883 Official sitehttp://www.nantu…

Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count

Relationship density13

1 connection

Record coverage66

metadata completeness

Graph authority18

centrality + reach + trust

Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read

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