Editing Newton, Massachusetts (section)

===Points of interest===
{{stack|[[Image:Jackson homestead.jpg|thumb|180px|The [[Jackson Homestead]].]]}}
* [[Crystal Lake (Newton, Massachusetts)|Crystal Lake]] is a {{convert|33|acre|adj=on}} natural lake located in Newton Centre. Its shores, mostly lined with private homes, also host two small parks, a designated swimming area, and a bathhouse. Previously known as Wiswall's Pond, it became known as Crystal Lake sometime between 1855 and 1875. The name was given by a nineteenth-century commercial ice harvester that sold ice cut from the pond in winter.
* The Jackson Homestead, now the [[Newton History Museum at the Jackson Homestead]], is best known for its history as a stop on the [[Underground Railroad]]. It was built in 1809 as a farmhouse designed in the [[Federal style architecture|Federal style]], and is now a museum with paintings, costumes, photographs, manuscripts, maps and historical artifacts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Massachusetts: Jackson Homestead (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/massachusetts-jackson-homestead.htm |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Boston marathon#Heartbreak Hill|Heartbreak Hill]], notably challenging stretch of the Boston Marathon, on Commonwealth Avenue between Centre Street and Boston College.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Michael |first=Vega |date=19 April 1993 |title=At Heartbreak Hill, a salute to a marathoner for the ages |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/specials/obituaries/kelley/archives_041993/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110421064857/http://www.boston.com/sports/specials/obituaries/kelley/archives_041993/ |archive-date=21 April 2011 |work=Boston.com}}</ref>
* Newton is home to many exclusive golf courses such as Woodland Country Club, Charles River Country Club, and Brae Burn Country Club, which held the United States Open in 1919.
* [[City Stable and Garage]], historic building
* The [[John A. Fenno House]] is a historic house at 171 Lowell Avenue, built {{circa|1854}}, and a rare local example of Gothic Revival styling.
* The [[House at 173–175 Ward Street]] is one of the city's few Federal style houses, built {{circa|1800}}
* [[Echo Bridge]] is a notable 19th-century masonry arch bridge<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://mhc-macris.net/Documents/NR/80000638.pdf |title=NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY·· NOMINATION FORM |last=Jenkins |first=Candace |date=11 September 1978 |access-date=22 March 2024}}</ref> with views of the river and Hemlock Gorge in [[Hemlock Gorge Reservation]] just off [[Massachusetts Route 9|Route 9]] in Newton Upper Falls.
* [[Norumbega Park]] was located in Auburndale on the Charles River. Opening in 1897 as a [[trolley park]], it was a popular [[amusement park]] through the 1950s before closing in 1963. Its [[Norumbega Park|Totem Pole Ballroom]] became a well-known dancing and entertainment venue for [[big band]]s touring during the 1940s as well as other famous performers such as [[Doris Day]], [[Bing Crosby]], [[Eydie Gormé|Eydie Gorme]] and [[The Four Lads]]. The park is now a popular dog-walking site with hills, meadows, woods, and access to the river.
[[Image:BCreservoir2.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Chestnut Hill Reservoir]]]]
* Auburndale Cove is a multipurpose picnic and recreational area on the Charles River just down the walking path from Norumbega Park.<ref>{{cite web|title=Auburndale Cove Picnic Areas & Building|url=http://www.newtonma.gov/gov/parks/city/room/auburndale.asp|publisher=City of Newton|access-date=April 17, 2014|archive-date=April 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418234312/http://www.newtonma.gov/gov/parks/city/room/auburndale.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Charles River Canoe & Kayak in Newton|url=http://www.paddleboston.com/newton/detail.php|access-date=April 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418233958/http://www.paddleboston.com/newton/detail.php|archive-date=April 18, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Chestnut Hill Reservoir]] is a very popular park with residents of Newton, Brookline, and the Brighton section of Boston. Although completely within the Boston city limits, it is directly contiguous to the Newton city limits. Designed by [[Frederick Law Olmsted]], the designer of Central Park in New York City and the Emerald Necklace in Boston, the park offers beautiful views of the Boston skyline, and is framed by stately homes and the campus of Boston College. Although not generally used to supply water to Boston, the reservoir was temporarily brought back online on May 1, 2010, during a failure of a connecting pipe at the end of the MetroWest Water Supply Tunnel.
* [[Bullough's Pond]] is an old mill pond transformed into a landscape feature when Newton became a suburban community in the late nineteenth century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The History of Bullough's Pond |url=https://www.bulloughspond.org/the-history-of-bulloughs-pond.html |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=Bullough's Pond Association |language=en}}</ref> It has been the subject of two books, ''Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England,'' by [[Diana Muir]], and ''Once Around Bullough's Pond: A Native American Epic,'' by Douglas Worth. It was long maintained by the city as an ice skating venue, but skating is no longer allowed. A scene from the 2008 remake of ''[[The Women (2008 film)|The Women]]'' was filmed there.
* The city of Newton has designated several roads in the city as "scenic". Along with this designation come regulations aimed at curbing tree removal and trimming along the roads, as well as stemming the removal of historic stone walls.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ci.newton.ma.us/cdbg/Planning%20Board/documents/Final%20Scenic%20Roads%20Regulations.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=January 13, 2011 |archive-date=March 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320065850/http://www.ci.newton.ma.us/cdbg/Planning%20Board/documents/Final%20Scenic%20Roads%20Regulations.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The city designated the following as scenic roads: Hobart Rd., Waban Ave., Sumner St., Chestnut St., Concord St., Dudley Rd., Fuller St., Hammond St., Valentine St., Lake Ave., Highland St., and Brookside Ave.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.newton.ma.us/Planning/Planning%20Board/documents/Pictures%20of%20Scenic%20Roads%20for%20Website.pdf |title=Newton Scenic Roads |website=www.ci.newton.ma.us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927114155/http://www.ci.newton.ma.us/Planning/Planning%20Board/documents/Pictures%20of%20Scenic%20Roads%20for%20Website.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref>
* The [[United Parish of Auburndale]], constructed in 1857, oldest wooden church building in Newton.
* [[First Baptist Church in Newton (Massachusetts)|The First Baptist Church in Newton Centre]], constructed in 1888, was designed by [[John Lyman Faxon]] in the [[Richardsonian Romanesque]] style pioneered by architect [[Henry Hobson Richardson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fbcnewton.org/history.html |title= History|website=www.fbcnewton.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226062713/http://www.fbcnewton.org/history.html |archive-date=December 26, 2014}}</ref>
* The [[WHDH-TV tower]] is one of the tallest free-standing lattice towers in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FCCInfo Structure Registration Results|url=https://www.fccinfo.com/CMDProASRLookup.php?sASR=1005862&tabSearchType=ASR+Search|access-date=June 4, 2021|website=www.fccinfo.com}}</ref>
* [[Boston College Law School]] is a 40-acre private [[Jesuits|Jesuit]] research university in [[Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts|Chestnut Hill]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home - Law School |url=https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/law.html |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Boston College |language=en}}</ref>