The development vision created for the Ledge Site by MHNHS’s community planning process included two significant public spaces - a pedestrian plaza and a passive park.

NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER -- ONE BRIGHAM CIRCLE

At the heart of the One Brigham Circle development is a 10,000 sf pedestrian plaza adjacent to Brigham Circle. This is Mission Hill’s neighborhood center - a place for neighbors to meet, gather, and socialize.  The plaza is One Brigham Circle's entrance and is ringed by retail stores with outdoor eating areas, decorative paving patterns, seating, and landscaping.  The plaza is also used for special community sponsored events, celebrations, and gatherings.

PASSIVE PARK -- PUDDINGSTONE PARK

The upper portion of the Ledge Site has been transformed into a new 5.5 acre passive park, named Puddingstone Park after the stone quarried from the site.  The Park includes walking paths, lawn, meadows, and benches.  The Park also includes a dog run for unleashed dogs, one of the first in the City of Boston. 

Puddingstone Park is Boston’s newest park envisioned by the residents of Mission Hill offering an unique experience for the enjoyment of all.

     The Puddingstone Park Experience:

As you approach the Park from St.Alphonsus Street you’re greeted with a landscaped lawn area that includes a bed of annuals, rhododendron, and Spring flowering white fringe trees. You enter the Park under a grand steel archway supported by massive puddingstone piers constructed from stone from this site. Walking the paths you see boulders of puddingstone surrounded by wild flowers. A gentle path takes you to the top of the park with a lawn area and benches offering you the opportunity to sit and enjoy the dramatic views of Boston’s skyline. Continuing your walk down a winding path you experience the stone walls of the original 1843 stone quarry with fields of poppies on sloping meadows. Your final destination is the retail shops at One Brigham Circle and the grand stair down to Mission Hill’s new neighborhood center connecting you to Brigham Circle and the City of Boston. This is the Puddingstone Park experience.

Puddingstone Park was constructed by the One Brigham Circle commercial development project.  Funding for the Park was provided by the Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust and One Brigham Cirlce LLC. The Park is owned by Friends of Puddingstone Park, Inc., a nonprofit corporation.

If you have any questions concerning Puddingstone Park please contact Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services at 617-566-6565.

PUDDINGSTONE PARK HOURS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS    

        Park Hours
            May 1st to July 31st
            6:00 AM to 9:00 PM

            August 1st to September 30th
            6:00 AM to 8:00 PM

            October 1st to April 30th
            Dawn to Dusk

            Park Rules and Regulations:

•   The Park will be closed whenever ice or snow is present
  

•   No Admittance when Park is closed
  
•   All Dogs must be leashed – please use Puddingstone      
                Dog Park for off leash dog walking
  
•   Please clean up after your dog
  
•   Please use the trash receptacles
  
•   Please walk your bicycle in the Park
  
•   The following are not permitted in the Park:
                Alcohol, open fires or barbeques
                Skate boarding, roller blades and ball playing
                Motorized vehicles or scooters
                Vendors

•   Please call 911 for emergency service
  

•   Take responsibility for your safety and belongings
  
•   Use of Park is at your own risk
    Thank you for your cooperation Friends of Puddingstone Park, Inc.