Research Guides: Beacon Hill: Maps and Plans

Plans

City of Boston Open Space Plan 2015-2021
Section 7.2.2: Back Bay/Beacon Hill is located on page 170.
Historical Maps - Urban Renewal
Plan for Boston - 1986
Boston Redevelopment Authority
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Two maps depicting downtown Boston neighborhoods (including Beacon Hill), one showing predominant building patterns (major green space, buildings over 200' in height, traditional commercial and cultural areas, 19th century warehouse and manufacturing areas, 19th century rowhouse neighborhoods, late 20th century planned areas and former railyards and highway air-rights for future planned development) and one showing building height districts as regulated by the Boston Zoning Code.
Updating the Seven-Year Plan: Boston Open Space Plan 2023-2029

Black Heritage Trail
Map and description of 14 sites of historic importance to Boston's Black population; describes a walking tour of downtown Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood; includes the following: African Meeting House, Smith Court residences, Abiel Smith School, George Middleton house, Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial, the Phillips School, John J. Smith house, Charles Meeting House, Lewis and Harriet Hayden House and Coburn's Gaming House; includes a table showing Boston's Black Population from 1820 through 1890 in numbers and as a percentage of the total. 1981.
The Boston Atlas
A joint development project between the Boston Planning & Development Agency and Mapjunction. Using the Mapjunction viewer, you can compare historical maps with current conditions, or compare two historical maps to each other.
Clough's Atlas 1798 Property Owners of the Town of Boston
Plates for an atlas of Boston property owners in 1798 begun, but never completed, by Clough, and based on the Direct Tax Census of 1798. The map covers the Beacon Hill area.