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Columbia Point is a remote neighborhood at the edge of a peninsula in Dorchester. While it is within two miles and three subway stops from downtown Boston, it feels cut off from Boston and even the rest of Dorchester. The waterfront neighborhood overlooks Boston Harbor, and is ringed by the scenic Harborwalk, which runs 47 miles along the coast.
Unlike most other neighborhoods of the city, Columbia Point is dominated by large institutional and public housing uses, including the U.Mass Boston campus, Boston College High School, and the Harbor Point mixed-income housing complex. The neighborhood also contains the I.M. Pei-designed John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate, and the Commonwealth Museum/Massachusetts Archives – with one of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence and one of the few surviving copies of the Bill of Rights. In 2011, the city produced a Columbia Point Master Plan to guide the development of the neighborhood into a livelier, mixed-use area.
The most historic building in the neighborhood is a sewage pumphouse. Boston is a delightfully quirky city. It's beloved landmarks include a gas station sign (the Citgo sign in Fenway-Kenmore, a potentially-explosive liquefied natural gas tank at Commercial Point, and a former sewage pumping station here at Columbia Point.
Built on landfill. Columbia Point is one of many neighborhoods of the city created or expanded using landfill. The peninsula was originally just 14 acres but has been enlarged to 350 acres. Parts of the peninsula – including the site of the Harbor Point apartments – were previously used as a trash dump, which was covered with fill to convert it to buildable land. Columbia Park and Morrissey Boulevard were also created using landfill. One challenge of infilled land at the waterfront is that basements of larger buildings may require pumping during high tides to keep hydrostatic pressure from damaging foundations.

Parking is only for residents from 10am to 6pm.