Newton Corner is one of the thirteen

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within the city of

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in Middlesex County,

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. Newton Corner borders

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, a neighborhood of Boston, as well as the city of

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. Newton Corner is divided by the

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(

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) with on-off access in both directions at Exit 127 (formerly exit 17) via a large, complicated roundabout nicknamed the "Newton Supercollider".

Newton Corner station Newton Corner is an MBTA bus transfer point in the Newton Corner, Massachusetts, Newton Corner neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts, located on the rotary where Washington Street crosses the Massachusetts Turnpike. The Newton Corner station, k ...

formerly saw streetcar and commuter rail service; it now serves as a busy bus depot serving downtown express routes as well as local buses.

History

Newton Corner sprang up in the late 1600s, when a village grew at the intersection of Washington and Centre street, then rural roads. Stores, farm stands, and a tavern came to service the steady stream of traffic. A railway came through in 1834. The

was built through the center of Newton Corner in the 1960s, along the line of the former railroad, despite opposition from the City of Newton. An

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was also added. This drastically changed the nature of the village center, splitting it in two, tearing down one-third of the businesses, and eviscerating the existing street patterns. Newton Corner remains in the twenty-first century rent in two by the deep cut of the turnpike and dominated by the heavy traffic and complicated ramp and road patterns at the interchange, with little pedestrian traffic or intercourse between the two separated halves. According to author Yanni Tsipis, "Newton Corner really ceased to be a to-place. It became more of a through-place".

Education

*Underwood Elementary School (public) – 101 Vernon Street *Bigelow Middle School (public) – 42 Vernon Street *Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School (public) – 191 Pearl Street *

Newton Country Day School Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart (often abbreviated to Newton Country Day School, Newton, or NCDS) is a private, all-girls Roman Catholic high school and middle school located on the Loren Towle Estate in Newton, Massachusetts, a ...

(private) – 785 Centre Street The Chamberlayne School, now

Mount Ida College Mount Ida College was a private college in Newton, Massachusetts. Its campus is now part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst In 2018, the University of Massachusetts Amherst acquired the campus and renamed it the Mount Ida Campus of UMas ...

, was founded in 1899 as a private all-female high school on Mount Ida Hill in Newton Corner.

Notable residents

Freelan Oscar Stanley Freelan Oscar Stanley (June 1, 1849 – October 2, 1940) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, hotelier, and architect. He made his fortune in the manufacture of photographic plates but is best remembered as the co-founder, with his brother Fra ...

and

Francis Edgar Stanley Francis Edgar Stanley, also known as F. E. Stanley (June 1, 1849 – July 31, 1918), was an American businessman and was the co-founder, along with his twin brother Freelan Oscar Stanley, of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company which built the ...

, identical twin inventors of the Stanley Steam Car *

Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. He was the first United States Poet Laureate to serve three terms. Recognized worldwide, Pinsky's work has earned numerous accolades. Pinsky ...

, former US Poet Laureate *

Sidewalk Sam Sidewalk Sam was the pseudonym of Robert Charles Guillemin (May 4, 1939 – January 26, 2015), a Boston-based artist who resided in Newton, Massachusetts. He was best recognized for his reproductions of European masterpieces, chalked or painted ...

(Robert Guillemin), folk artist *

Taylor Twellman Taylor Timothy Twellman (born February 29, 1980) is an American former soccer player who played professionally from 1999 to 2010. He now works in the media as a soccer television commentator for MLS Season Pass on Apple TV. Twellman is best kn ...

, soccer player * Steve Grossman, Massachusetts state treasurer, 2011–present

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Newton Corner Neighborhoods
Villages in Newton, Massachusetts Villages in Massachusetts {{MiddlesexCountyMA-geo-stub

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Notable residents

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