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The National Archives at Boston


Serves Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Renovation Update:
This location will soon be undergoing a major renovation.

For more information on the status of this project please visit our National Archives Boston Renovation Information Page and FAQs.

Address

The National Archives at Boston.

See how the area looked before NARA at Boston was built

Frederick C. Murphy Federal Center
380 Trapelo Road
Waltham, Massachusetts
02452-6399

Phone: (781) 663-0130
Fax: (781) 663-0154
E-mail: waltham.archives@nara.gov

Facility Information

Hours

Archives
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
(Note: No original records are pulled before 8 A.M. or after 4 P.M.)

We are open on the following Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.:

2010

August 7, 2010
September 11, 2010

We are scheduled to renovate this October and some of our services may temporarily be unavailable. Please call (781) 663-0130 with any questions.

October 2, 2010
November 6, 2010
December 4, 2010

Records Center/Court Records
Monday - Friday, 8:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.

Closed Sundays and Federal holidays

Directions

Driving Directions to the National Archives in Boston.

By car from Boston

Take Massachusetts Turnpike west to Route 128/I-95, Exit 15. Take Route 128/I-95 north to Trapelo Road, Exit 28A - Belmont. Follow Trapelo Road for 2.8 miles. The facility is on the right. For an alternate route, take Storrow Drive, Boston, to Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, to Belmont Street, Watertown. Continue on Belmont Street to Trapelo Road. The facility is on the left.

By car from west of Boston

Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to Route 128/I-95. Go north on Route 128/I-95 to Trapelo Road, Exit 28A - Belmont. Follow Trapelo Road for 2.8 miles. The facility is on the right.

By public transportation

From the Park Street station, take the MBTA bus to Harvard Square. From Harvard Square, take the MBTA bus to Waverly Square in Belmont (bus runs every 15 minutes). Walk or take a taxi 1.5 miles west on Trapelo Road to the facility.

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Document of the Month

  • The National Archives at Boston holds 35,000 cubic feet of historic records. Here's one for your enjoyment.

    First day of school 1975. There are 1792 police in Boston’s schools.
    One of our most powerful Constitutional cases is Morgan v. Hennigan, United States District Court Civil Action Case File No. 72-911-G, the Boston Schools desegregation case. It occupies 54 cubic feet of storage in the National Archives at Boston, and it details all sides of the arguments, the court’s opinion, evidence of the school climate and facilities, and the struggle to find the best way to free Boston’s schools of the effects of segregative intent.
    Report of Police Personnel Assigned to Operation Safety: 09/08/1975 - 09/08/1975; RG 21 Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2004; National Archives at Boston.

    See more of the case: ARC ID 4713948 and ARC ID 4713867.

    Read more about it: Teach the Constitution Sept 17th! It’s the law!

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The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
Telephone: 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272