NEWTON 

Gorgeous Newton, famed as the Garden City of Massachusetts, is scenically set within the Boston Basin, just six miles west of Boston, bounded on three sides by the Charles River. It’s a lovely and diverse community comprised of 14 villages, each with its own unique character. The delightful villages of Newton include Auburndale, Chestnut Hill, Four Corners, Newton Centre, Newton Corner, Newton Highlands, Newton Lower Falls, Newton Upper Falls, Newtonville, Nonantum, Oak Hill, Thomsonville and Waban. 

Newton is a vibrant community and a super desirable place to live because of its attractive family neighborhoods and close proximity to Boston, various highway and public transportation options. A coveted place to call home, property values are high, there’s a well-run municipal government and a school system that has been nationally recognized for its excellence.  

Newton has well maintained parks, bicycle and fitness trails, golf courses, a public pool and lake. You’ll enjoy farmer’s markets in summer, a new, state-of-the-art, award-winning Library, the Jackson Homestead Museum and a myriad of art and cultural activities. Newton has a Symphony Orchestra, resident theatre groups and Arts in the Parks Programs.  

While Newton is town of ravishing, vintage homes in a wide variety of architectural styles, it is also an innovative community and one of the first cities to administer a mandatory curbside recycling program. There’s no finer place to call home and that the reason Newton has been named one of the most livable cities in the nation by the US Conference of Mayors. Call the movers because you dream house is waiting! 

LOCATION 

Newton is located six miles west of Boston, within the Boston Basin, a tiny structure of the Appalachian Mountain Range. Just south of the I-90 and east of the I-95, Newton is bounded on three sides by the Charles River and comprised of 14 villages, each with a unique character. 

It is located in eastern Massachusetts, bordered by Needham on the southwest, Wellesley and Weston on the west, Waltham and Watertown on the north, Brookline and Boston on the east, and Boston on the southeast. Newton is 70 miles from the beaches of Cape Cod, 210 miles from New York City and 440 miles from Washington, DC.  

TRANSPORTATION/AIRPORTS 

As part of the Greater Boston, New England’s largest metro area, Newton enjoys all the advantages of highly integrated and well-maintained system of highways, roads and bridges. Newton is located just south to the I-90 and east of the I-95, two of the Commonwealth’s most important transportation arteries that makes it convenient to get where you’re going, near or far. 

Newton also offers easy access to MBTA trains and buses that make getting anywhere in the Greater Boston Area a breeze. The “T” Greenline, also known as the "Riverside" branch has a number of stops in Newton’s villages including a stop in Chestnut Hill and many bus routes also serve the town. There are MBTA express buses that connect Newton to Boston and commuter rail trains connect to the villages of West Newton, Newtonville, and Auburndale as well as service east to Boston and west to Framingham, Natick and Worcester. 

The "T" is the easiest way to get around offering more than 60 miles of track snaking throughout the city and beyond. Hop the Red Line to Harvard Square, take the Green Line to the North End or catch the Orange Line to Jamaica Plain, any place you want to go is just a train ride away. 

Boston’s Logan International Airport offers nonstop and connecting service to destinations around the world with service provided by all the major carriers. You even have the option of taking an MBTA train into downtown and the neighborhoods by catching a ride on the free Massport shuttle bus to the Blue Line's Airport subway stop. 

Amtrak provides frequent train service, including high-speed Acela Express service, to New York and points all around the Northeast Corridor. Amtrak has three Boston stations including Route 128, Back Bay and South Station. Various bus and van companies offer service to and from Boston including Greyhound with eight of its own depots in the area while other lines arrive and depart from Boston’s South Station. 

BRIEF HISTORY 

Newton’s villages developed at different times and for different reasons. Some developed at crossroads, some at mill sites, some because of the railroads although five of the villages predate the commuter era and were well-established communities with bustling commercial centers before the first railroad tracks were laid. But all, in varying degrees, benefited from the arrival of regular passenger rail service.  

The area that is now Newton was part of a tract of land taken from Watertown and given to Cambridge in 1633. Soon after, a handful of families settled near the Newton-Brighton line and the first cart ways set the pattern for what would become the main highways. Where they met, just a short distance south of the Watertown Bridge, a small community took root.  

Newton also has a unique place in American history as a documented stop on the Underground Railway, the walking trail to Canada organized by people opposed to slavery. The Jackson Homestead, now the site of The Newton Museum and built in 1809, was home to William Jackson, a politician, businessman and committed abolitionist.  

Newton was incorporated as a city in 1873 and with the creation of The Circuit Railroad the future of the city's ties to Boston was complete. As 1900 arrived, in spite of the ups and downs of the economy, Newton began a period of almost uninterrupted suburban development. 

Today’s Newton is coveted bedroom community yet still a city of diverse cultures and unique villages. Newton has protected its historic character and charming village ambiance in the shadow of nearby Boston with all its big city attraction.  

ABOUT EDUCATION 

Newton’s acclaimed public school system is one of the best in the Commonwealth with 22 schools in the district serving over 11,000 students. There is one preschool, 15 elementary schools, 4 middle schools and two high schools as well as community education programs. Pupil-to-teacher ratios are 23 to 1 in elementary schools; 14.5 to 1 in middle schools and 16 to 1 in high school and pupil expenditures exceed state requirements. There are three private high schools and three private preschools in Newton with approximately 17% of Newton’s school age children enrolled in private schools. 

The choices for higher education in Newton and its surrounding areas are almost limitless. Colleges and universities within Newton itself include the Andover Newton Theological School, Lasell College, Mount Ida College and Hebrew College in Newton Centre and Boston College in Chestnut Hill. 

There are a number of colleges and universities in Brookline including Newbury College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Hebrew College and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.
Additionally, there are more than fifty colleges and universities in the Greater Boston Area including some the finest institutions of higher learning in the world. Most famously home of Harvard University, arguably the top university in the US, the area is also the site of MIT, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis, Radcliff, Tufts, Wellesley and the New England Conservatory of Music to name just a few. With more than 300,000 students, the Boston area is rife with intellectual stimulation and opportunity, whether you’re just graduating high school, a mid life professional looking for a new career or a senior interested in broadening horizons. 

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