The mile-long parkway runs through the Winthrop Beach Reservation, and is administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).

Both the parkway and reservation were designed in the mid-1890s by Charles Eliot for the Metropolitan Parks Commission, a predecessor to the DCR.

Land was acquired for the parkway in 1899, and construction was largely completed in 1900.

[2] The parkway was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

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