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The West End Museum is dedicated to documenting the history of the West End of Boston especially the immigrant era which dates approximately from 1880 to the West Ends destruction by eminent domain in 1958.

The term Urban Villagers was a term coined by Herbert Gans for his landmark sociology book "Urban Villagers" about the West End. We are the original "Urban Villagers" a term now used by everyone to describe their city neighborhoods. We are the original Urban Village.

"The Greatest Neighbourhood This Side Of Heaven"