Before its transformation into buildable land by a 19th-century filling project, the Back Bay was a bay, west of the Shawmut Peninsula (on the far side from Boston Harbor) … 展开

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The plan of Back Bay, by Arthur Gilman of the firm Gridley James Fox Bryant, was greatly influenced by 展开

• The Back Bay Fens is a large picturesque park on Back Bay's south edge that forms part of Boston's Emerald Necklace.
• The Charles River Reservation runs between Storrow Drive and the Charles River at Back … 展开

• Copley Square
• High Spine
• National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts 展开

The Back Bay is traversed by five east–west corridors: Beacon Street, Marlborough Street, Commonwealth Avenue, Newbury Street and Boylston Street. These are interrupted at regular intervals by north–south streets named alphabetically: Arlington … 展开

Prominent cultural and educational institutions in the Back Bay include:
• Alliance française, on Marlborough Street
• Berklee … 展开

Back Bay is served by the Green Line's Arlington, Copley, Hynes Convention Center, and Prudential stations, and the Orange Line's Back Bay station (which is also an MBTA Commuter Rail and Amtrak station). 展开