In 1886 Horace Cleveland planned the laid out of Blackstone Boulevard and it was constructed in 1894 to provide better access to nearby Swan Point Cemetery.

The park in the center was planned and suggested by the Olmsted Brothers.

The surrounding district features architecture by Howard K. Hilton and contains various 19th-century and 20th-century colonial revivals.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

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