Winchester ~ Suburban Boston

Expat · #1 Posted **May 5, 2011, 1:27 PM**

Winchester, population 21, 374, was first settled in 1640, but not incorporated until 1850. Eight miles from downtown Boston and only a few stops to North Station on the Lowell Line Commuter Rail. It was a beautiful day and I really enjoyed taking these pictures:

Thanks for looking!

Danny · #2 Posted **May 5, 2011, 2:45 PM**

Thank you very much for this interesting and pretty thread, Expat!

As I tell you always, it´s a pleasure for me to watch photos from New England, in this time from Winchester, a town I´ve never heard about.

I like very much victorian houses, spring flowers around houses and the colours of Spring there.

Winchester looks very quiet, doesn´t it? I like very much these kind of cities, with an ambient so nice and relaxing. It must be a pleasant place to live in, above all in one of those pretty houses.

Congratulations and greetings from Madrid, Span!

Waiting your next thread again...

diskojoe · #3 Posted **May 5, 2011, 2:58 PM**

looks nice. lots of healthy grass.

Thundertubs · #4 Posted **May 5, 2011, 3:00 PM**

My father's hometown. I was hoping you'd shoot Winchester. I have good memories of trips up there from NJ to see the grandparents.

It really is a great suburb - very historic, beautiful houses, active downtown, and only 3 or so train stops from downtown Boston.

Suburbia can be wonderful.

Prahaboheme · #5 Posted **May 5, 2011, 4:22 PM**

I think this may be a first-ever for Winchester of SSP. As already stated, Winchester is fabulously beautiful and amazingly convenient to downtown Boston. It's probably the wealthiest inner suburb (inside the loop) going North of Boston.

seaskyfan · #6 Posted **May 5, 2011, 7:03 PM**

Nice to see my hometown in photos - I was hoping your travels would lead you there eventually. Great tour!

M II A II R II K · #7 Posted **May 5, 2011, 7:17 PM**

Certainly not shitty version of suburbia by any means.

ColDayMan · #8 Posted **May 5, 2011, 8:01 PM**

It looks like some of Cincinnati's suburbs...minus the whole commuter rail thing since it was...ya know...decomissioned.

ShadowMaster · #9 Posted **May 5, 2011, 10:06 PM**

Another magnificent New England thread by the Expat!

Wonderful home in my opinion - http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5265/...3b995408_b.jpg

robhut · #10 Posted **May 6, 2011, 12:12 AM**

No words!!! How beautiful these pics can be.

montréaliste · #11 Posted **May 6, 2011, 12:19 AM**

Inspiring! Boston can teach us a thing or two it seems about how to consolidate a region but keeping very old towns alive and distinct. Wow!

Shawn · #12 Posted **May 6, 2011, 2:06 AM**

Thanks again Expat for showing off Greater Boston! In my totally biased opinion, May and October in New England (especially in coastal Mass and Rhodie) has the best weather around. Do yourself a favor and make sure to get up to the Arnold Arboretum soon, you won't be disappointed. Mt Auburn Cemetery also has great views this time of the year!

tdawg · #13 Posted **May 6, 2011, 12:32 PM**

Might just be the perfect little commuter town. Love it.

sterlippo1 · #14 Posted **May 6, 2011, 2:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by tdawg

Might just be the perfect little commuter town. Love it.

but unaffordable.......it is an exquisite town, as beautiful as Expat's awesome pictures, maybe even more so in person

Nineties Flava · #15 Posted **May 6, 2011, 2:28 PM**

I'm echoing what everybody else said... looks like great suburbia. The architecture is very nice... I especially like the cobblestone. Thanks for taking the time to show us what the Boston area has to offer.

ctman987 · #16 Posted **May 7, 2011, 3:28 AM**

Nice photos. Though I am now a New Yorker (well a Brooklynite) its threads like this that make me miss my native New England!

Centropolis · #17 Posted **May 7, 2011, 4:30 AM**

Ah, you hit it about the same time climatologically speaking I wished I had photographed St. Louis but was working in central Illinois. Looks pretty good, my guess is that you never know what goes on behind those beautiful walls but you can count on it being interesting, but beautiful walls and beautiful land, indeed. The great garden spot. I never would have guessed there would have been so many rock outcroppings around Boston like that, it reminds me of the landscape not very far across the Meramec River here, relatively speaking

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giantSwan · #18 Posted **May 7, 2011, 7:51 AM**

looks like every town in suburban boston...

sterlippo1 · #19 Posted **May 7, 2011, 9:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by giantSwan

looks like every town in suburban boston...

maybe , since they all use red brick to some degree

but Winchester decidedly does not look like every town in suburban Boston but i do get what you are saying

seaskyfan · #20 Posted **May 7, 2011, 4:45 PM**

^ I think to someone not from the area all the towns might look alike - to me they all look completely different.

Winchester Center is a lot livelier now than it was when I was growing up. The Town was dry until the early 80s if I'm remembering correctly and then gave out one liquor store (packie for the locals) license and a few restaurant licenses. The first tavern just opened a year or two ago - you can see the Sam Adams board outside it right under the train overpass. It's called the Black Horse Tavern in honor of a tavern that operated in the area during the Revolutionary Era.

The river flowing through the Center is the Aberjona which if you read "A Civil Action" you might remember as the river flowing near where they were dumping toxic waste in Woburn.

The brick sidewalks and old fashioned streetlights also went in during the 80s. Before that it was concrete sidewalks with 50s era streetlights.