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Belmont features a nice town centre along a brief but lovely section of Leonard Street. Historic structures and beautiful replicas with brick and clapboard facades surround the street.
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Pleasant Street Historic District
Pleasant Street, which ran parallel to Leonard Street and served as the primary thoroughfare between West Cambridge and Watertown in the 17th century, was bordered with sizable property parcels owned by the first Belmont families.
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This 90-acre Mass Audubon property, which is made up of meadows, ponds, vernal pools, and sizable stands of deciduous and evergreen forest, is arguably the highlight of the several natural areas in and surrounding Belmont.
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A beautiful Italianate estate, constructed in 1853 by William Flagg Homer, the uncle of the renowned painter Winslow Homer, is perched on a rise near the intersection of Pleasant Street and Concord Avenue (1836-1910).
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This DCR-run public recreation area occupies a sizable portion of western Belmont.
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Belmont has a lot of natural space, and one of the best things about it is that a lot of it is connected by a trail that connects around 20 different properties here and in adjacent Waltham.
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The playground and spray deck at Beaver Brook Reservation, which were initially built in the 1980s, have become local landmarks.
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The Mount Auburn Cemetery, a landmark in landscape architecture, changed the landscape of burial grounds forever when it opened in nearby Watertown in 1831.
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