History
Huntington Avenue began in Art Square (now Copley Square) and wended its way toward Brookline. It was originally called Western Avenue. By 1883 the square that been named for the adjacent (and later relocated) Museum of Fine Arts was renamed Copley Square. The avenue originally began at the intersection of Claredon and Boylston Street and ran diagonally across the square past Trinity Church. In the 1960s this stretch was eliminated as part of a redesign of the square and now the avenue originates from the intersection of Darmouth Street and St. James Avenue.
The street was named for Ralph Huntington (1784–1866). Huntington was one of the men who moved to have the Back Bay filled in. He donated money to many of the institutions in the Back Bay and later the Fenway.
Huntington Avenue, near Northeastern University, was the site of the old Boston Red Sox stadium and site of the first World Series game in 1903. A statue of Cy Young stands on the current day Northeastern campus to commemorate the location of the pitcher's mound of the Huntington Avenue Grounds ballpark.
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