{"id":28728,"date":"2025-08-31T19:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28728"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:36:10","slug":"is-boston-college-actually-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/08\/31\/is-boston-college-actually-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Boston College actually in Boston?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW083125-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW083125-1.jpg\" alt=\"Is Boston College actually in Boston?\" class=\"wp-image-28727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW083125-1.jpg 313w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW083125-1-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Is Boston College actually in Boston?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When BC was founded in 1863 all of it was in Boston (hence the name), then it moved to its present location (&#8220;the heights&#8221;), where part of the campus is in Newton&#8217;s Chestnut Hill neighborhood. (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-history-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/bc-history-collection<\/a>). Fun fact: the city line goes right through the southeast corner of ONeill Library. You can also find an old but still accurate city line street sign if you know where to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When BC was founded in 1863 all of it was in Boston (hence the name), then it moved to its present location (&#8220;the heights&#8221;), where part of the campus is in Newton&#8217;s Chestnut Hill neighborhood. (bit.ly\/bc-history-collection). Fun fact: the city line goes right through the southeast corner of ONeill Library. You can also find an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/08\/31\/is-boston-college-actually-in-boston\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Boston College actually in Boston?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28744,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions\/28744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}