Avery Woods

Avery Woods is a six-acre piece of open space between Day Middle School and Albemarle Field. The land, together with 2.5 acres now used for the middle school, was sold by

The city’s proposal to site a football stadium at Albemarle Park spurred a group of Newtonville neighbors to take a more active role in preservation and management of the neighborhood

Avery Memorial Woods was acquired in 1959 from the Avery family through a negotiated eminent domain taking. According to the Newton Graphic, the land “was sold to the city at