Building / Landmark · 1910 · Boston
Matthews Arena
The world’s oldest multi-purpose athletic arena still in use (1910) — original home ice of the Boston Bruins (1924) and original home court of the Celtics. Northeastern hockey plays where the NHL began.
Photograph · Wikimedia Commons
Why it matters
Part of the connected record of this place — 3 relationships link it into the wider graph, each one a thread worth pulling.
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
Thenfocused. Best now: one good detour.
1854: When it opened in 1854, the Chickering & Sons piano works on Tremont Street ranked among the largest buildings in the United States; it now houses artists' lofts as the Piano Craft Guild.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
Current modegolden hour
Historical echoChickering & Sons Piano Factory
Connected eventSymphony Hall Opens (1900)
Pulse
How it feels right now
Current energyfocused
Best nowone good detour
Best timegolden hour
serendipitous
Rain scoregood
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 densitylight
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Serendipitypromising
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
19101910Matthews Arena enters the civic record here.1900Symphony Hall Opens (1900)On October 15, 1900, the BSO opened the first concert hall in the world designed with acoustical science — Harvard physicist Wallace Sabine did the math.1898Northeastern UniversityPrivate research university on Huntington Avenue founded in 1898, known for its signature co-op program embedding students in industry.
- Established
- 1910
- Address
- 238 St. Botolph St, Boston
- Graph connections
- 3
Plan your visit
Get there
In the graph 3 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Matthews Arena in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
Museum / Cultural · 1 min walk
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Museum / Cultural · 1 min walk
Burnes Hall
Museum / Cultural · 1 min walk
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Historical context
An unexpected connection
Matthews Arena is linked, through the graph, to Boston — city, 1.9 mi 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
More landmarksOther landmarks in the graph
From the early-modern eraOf the same period
Visitors also exploreReached through the same connections
One record, 2 framings 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 corroboration4 sources across 2 tiers
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
○Institutional backingNo primary source yet
✓Record completeness100% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
Northeastern Athletics Unclassified
NHL records Unclassified
wikipedia Open reference
Wikipedia page 1556378 (English) Open reference
The same entity, elsewhere
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density35
3 connections
Record coverage92
metadata completeness
Graph authority30
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@graph": [
{
"@type": "LandmarksOrHistoricalBuildings",
"@id": "https://boston400.com/e/matthews-arena",
"name": "Matthews Arena",
"description": "The world’s oldest multi-purpose athletic arena still in use (1910) — original home ice of the Boston Bruins (1924) and original home court of the Celtics. Northeastern hockey plays where the NHL began.",
"url": "https://boston400.com/e/matthews-arena",
"image": {
"@type": "ImageObject",
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/MatthewsArenaInterior2009.jpg/960px-MatthewsArenaInterior2009.jpg",
"contentUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/MatthewsArenaInterior2009.jpg/960px-MatthewsArenaInterior2009.jpg",
"creditText": "Wikimedia Commons",
"caption": "Matthews Arena"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 42.3413,
"longitude": -71.0855
},
"address": "238 St. Botolph St, Boston",
"foundingDate": "1910",
"sameAs": [
"https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=1556378",
"https://guidetonortheastern.com/e/matthews-arena"
],
"citation": [
{
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "Northeastern Athletics"
},
{
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "NHL records"
},
{
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "wikipedia"
},
{
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "Wikipedia page 1556378 (English)"
}
],
"isPartOf": {
"@id": "https://guidetonortheastern.com/e/northeastern-university"
},
"containedInPlace": {
"@id": "https://boston400.com/e/boston"
},
"relatedLink": [
"https://guidetonortheastern.com/e/northeastern-university",
"https://boston400.com/e/symphony-hall-1900",
"https://boston400.com/e/boston"
]
},
{
"@type": "CollegeOrUniversity",
"@id": "https://guidetonortheastern.com/e/northeastern-university",
"name": "Northeastern University",
"url": "https://guidetonortheastern.com/e/northeastern-university"
},
{
"@type": "Event",
"@id": "https://boston400.com/e/symphony-hall-1900",
"name": "Symphony Hall Opens (1900)",
"url": "https://boston400.com/e/symphony-hall-1900"
},
{
"@type": "City",
"@id": "https://boston400.com/e/boston",
"name": "Boston",
"url": "https://boston400.com/e/boston"
}
]
}