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Boston South End condos for sale – Spring 2021

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One of Boston’s most beautiful neighborhoods, and one of its most culturally diverse, the South End has a rich array of condos for sale . Bordered by the Back Bay, Chinatown, and Roxbury, the primary commercial area runs along Tremont Street, Columbus Avenue, and Harrison Avenue. Most of the residential cross streets are named after the towns (Dedham, Newton, Canton, Dover, etc.) that were served by the former Boston and Providence Railroad, which originally bordered the South End.

Developed in the mid-19th century to relieve overcrowding in downtown Boston and Beacon Hill, the neighborhood, originally a narrow strip of land surrounded by salt marshes connecting Boston to Roxbury, was created with landfill from nearby Needham. Prominent architect Charles Bulfinch (the Massachusetts State House, the Boston Common, and much of the US Capitol), designed the new neighborhood.

Today, Bulfinch’s imprint can still be found. Tree-lined streets are graced by connected brick bow-front townhouses surrounded by iron gates and built around a series of shaded pocket parks, many with elegant fountains. In 1973, the South End was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as “the largest urban Victorian neighborhood in the country.”

The area has long had cycles of boom and bust. By the 1880s many of its wealthy founding families had been replaced by waves of immigrants from Ireland, Lebanon, and Greece, and tenements and settlement houses were built to accommodate them. During the 1940s, the South End became home to a vibrant African American middle class. At the same time, it began to attract gay men and women drawn by the many single-sex rooming houses that provided them with social cover.

By the early 1960s the area had become synonymous with crime and poverty. But it underwent another gentrification beginning in the late 1970s, led primarily by gay men.

Today, the South End is one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods, both economically and racially. Still home to a large gay community, it also has a sizable Hispanic population. Seven-figure townhouses abut several large subsidized housing projects. And it has become a popular place to work for artists.

Pricey restaurants like chef Barbara Lynch’s Butcher Shop, B&G Oysters, and Aquitaine Bar à Vin Bistrot draw locals as well as those from surrounding suburbs. But there are still plenty of place to grab good, cheap food and lots of trendy boutiques and performing arts venues. This link is a sampling of South End condos for sale