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Fenway/Kenmore, Boston — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston anchors Fenway/Kenmore, a Boston neighborhood also holding the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and New Fenway Park.
About Fenway/Kenmore
Where to stay in Fenway/Kenmore
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Fenway/Kenmore sits among Boston's cultural institutions, walkable to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Hotels gather within this culture-heavy stretch of Boston. Visitors who base themselves in this neighborhood trade a quiet residential feel for immediate reach to galleries, ballgames at New Fenway Park, and the wider city beyond.
It suits you if you want museums and Fenway on foot rather than a downtown hotel core.
About Fenway/Kenmore
What are the main landmarks in Fenway/Kenmore?
Fenway/Kenmore carries an unusually dense roll of landmarks for one Boston neighborhood. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston leads. Nearby stand the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Mary Baker Eddy Library, and The First Church of Christ, Scientist, a cluster of art and faith that gives the neighborhood its landmark character.
The Warren Anatomical Museum, the Frederick Ayer Mansion, and the Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help round out a heritage of art, faith, and learning.
What is the history of Fenway/Kenmore?
Fenway/Kenmore took its shape as Boston expanded into a quarter of houses and institutions. Its houses came before its museums. The Frederick Ayer Mansion, the Louis Prang House, and the William Murphy House survive from that earlier residential age, standing as the neighborhood filled in around them.
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum later fixed its identity as a place of art rather than commerce.
Where is Fenway/Kenmore?
Fenway/Kenmore is one of Boston's neighborhoods, in Massachusetts, in the United States, built up around the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Updated July 2026