Dataset
Boston Landmarks Commission (BLC) Landmarks
Landmarks within the City of Boston.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 17
- Keywords
- blc, boston, bostonmaps, ckan, districts, hubhacks, landmarks
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-landmarks-commission-blc-landmarks
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 82003 | 636e03c74ac80eb9f5ddf9d13b477a18684c07bf5792c378d0bc84a299f05f57 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 507481 | 1b2bb58951cd83709726b1dba682343ea6093cf754341dd20db4cca4a4c67490 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 130160 | 27514e91a642f9240422b062fb0b57d682a9234f79b4f619292a0d18295d4169 | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Unique_ID | text | |
Neighborhood | text | |
Common_Name | text | |
Status | text | |
Areas_Under_Jurisdiction | text | |
Petitioner | text | |
Study_Report | text | |
Display_ | text | |
Demolished | text | |
Date_Designated_1 | text | |
created_user | text | |
created_date | text | |
last_edited_user | text | |
last_edited_date | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:boston-landmarks-commission-blc-landmarks
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-landmarks-commission-blc-landmarks
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-landmarks-commission-blc-landmarks.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- boston-landmarks-commission-blc-landmarks
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |