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Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway in West Roxbury

Location:	Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates:	42°17′10″N 71°9′31″W / 42.28611°N 71.15861°W / 42.28611; -71.15861Coordinates: 42°17′10″N 71°9′31″W / 42.28611°N 71.15861°W / 42.28611; -71.15861
Built:	1931
Architect:	Eliot, Charles; Olmstead Brothers
Architectural style:	No Style Listed
Governing body:	Local
MPS:	Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS
NRHP Reference#:	04001432 ^[1]
Added to NRHP:	January 5, 2005

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway (referred to locally as the VFW Parkway) is a historic parkway in Boston, Massachusetts. The parkway begins at Spring Street in West Roxbury at the Charles River and ends at Centre Street at the Arnold Arboretum. The parkway was built in 1931 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The parkway passes through the southern corner of the town of Brookline south of Bournewood Hospital, near the intersection with the West Roxbury Parkway. It formerly carried the designation for U.S. Route 1.^[2]

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^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8338190.html

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Interstate Highways	I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) I-93 I-95

U.S. Routes	US 1 US 3 US 20

State Routes	Route 1A Route 2 Route 2A Route 3 Route 9 Route 28 Route 30 Route 99 Route 128 Route 145 Route 203

Parkways	Arborway Blue Hills Parkway Day Boulevard Fenway Jamaicaway Memorial Drive Morrissey Boulevard Morton Street Park Drive Riverway Stony Brook Reservation Parkways Soldiers Field Road Storrow Drive Truman Parkway VFW Parkway West Roxbury Parkway

Major streets	Beacon Street Bennington Street Boylston Street Commonwealth Avenue Dorchester Avenue Huntington Avenue Massachusetts Avenue Newbury Street State Street Tremont Street Washington Street

Bridges	Anderson Memorial Bridge Boston University Bridge Bowker Overpass Charlestown Bridge Eliot Bridge Harvard Bridge Leverett Circle Connector Bridge Longfellow Bridge North Beacon Street Bridge Tobin Bridge Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge

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Interchanges	Braintree Split South Bay Interchange

See also	Big Dig Boston Post Road Emerald Necklace Inner belt Expressway (unbuilt) List of crossings of the Charles River

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Parkways and roads	Alewife Brook Parkway Arborway Blue Hills Parkway Blue Hills Reservation Parkways Charles River Reservation Parkways Day Boulevard Fells Connector Parkways Fenway Fresh Pond Parkway Furnace Brook Parkway Hammond Pond Parkway Hull Shore Drive Jamaicaway Lynn Fells Parkway Memorial Drive Morrissey Boulevard Mystic Valley Parkway Nahant Beach Boulevard Nantasket Avenue Park Drive Quincy Shore Drive Revere Beach Parkway Riverway Soldiers Field Road Stony Brook Reservation Parkways Storrow Drive Truman Parkway VFW Parkway West Roxbury Parkway Winthrop Parkway Winthrop Shore Drive

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