Brigham Circle is located at the intersection of
Tremont Street
Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts.
Tremont Street begins at Government Center in Boston's city center as a continuation of Cambridge Street, and forms the eastern edge of Boston Common. Continuing in a roughly so ...
and
Huntington Avenue
Huntington Avenue is a secondary thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, beginning at Copley Square, and continuing west through the Back Bay, Fenway, Longwood, and Mission Hill neighborhoods. Huntington Avenue is signed as Route 9 ...
in the
Mission Hill neighborhood of
Boston, Massachusetts. The commercial center of Mission Hill, it forms the southern tip of the
Longwood Medical Area
The Longwood Medical and Academic Area (also known as Longwood Medical Area, LMA, or simply Longwood) is a medical campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Flanking Longwood Avenue, LMA is adjacent to the Fenway–Kenmore, Audubon Circle, and Mission H ...
.
The area is named for the
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two fo ...
(now a wing of the larger
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with Massachusetts Gener ...
), which stands at one side of the circle and is approached through Stoneman Plaza. The intersection was never a true
traffic circle
A roundabout is a type of circular intersection (road), intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.''The N ...
like other circles in Boston. Huntington Avenue has had through lanes since at least the early 20th century; a small rotary was present at the junction of Francis Street on the northwest side. Near MBTA stops is a street-level park with metal benches that sites farmers' markets, and entrances to
Kevin W. Fitzgerald Park (formerly
Puddingstone Park) and other parks are nearby.
Transportation
The light rail
MBTA Green Line
The Green Line is a light rail system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area. It is the oldest MBTA subway line, and with tunnel sections dating from 1897, the oldest subway ...
E branch runs through the center of the circle. East of Brigham Circle it runs on a reserved reservation in the median of Huntington; west of the circle it runs in mixed traffic.
Brigham Circle station
Brigham Circle is a station on the light rail MBTA Green Line "E" branch, located just east of Brigham Circle in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. With raised platforms installed in a 2001-03 renovation, the station is a ...
lies just to the east of Brigham Circle, with scarcely marked
Fenwood Road stop just to the west.
Two
MBTA bus
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) operates List of MBTA bus routes, 170 bus routes in the Greater Boston area. The MBTA has a policy objective to provide transit service within walking distance (defined as ) for all residents ...
routes pass through Brigham Circle. Route (–) parallels the radial E branch via Huntington Avenue, while the route (
Harvard Square
Harvard Square is a triangular plaza at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street and John F. Kennedy Street near the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The term "Harvard Square" is also used to delineate the busin ...
–) is a major circumferential connector. The private
Mission Hill LINK circulator, run with partial MBTA subsidy, also serves Brigham Circle.
References
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Squares in Boston