Arnold Arboretum
North America’s oldest public arboretum (1872) — 281 acres designed with Olmsted, owned by Harvard, free to all, and home to 16,000 catalogued plants including century-old bonsai.
A single canonical record that surfaces on 3 of the network’s properties — the same place, understood through 3 different civic lenses.
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Now, then, future
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1636: The oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, John Harvard.
The next version of this object is whatever story you follow from here.
How it feels right now
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Routes with a point of view
Chosen moves from here
Human recommendations
What this meant before
- Established
- 1872
- Address
- 125 Arborway, Boston
- Graph connections
- 3
In the graph 3 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Arnold Arboretum in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Arnold Arboretum is linked, through the graph, to Harvard University — university, 4.6 mi away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
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Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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