Boston Garden

About Boston Garden

Boston Garden was an NBA and NHL arena in Boston, Massachusetts. It opened in 1928 and closed in 1998. It was designed by Tex Rickard. Its last recorded capacity was 14,448. Tenants included Boston Bruins (NHL, 1929–1995), Boston Celtics (NBA, 1947–1995) and New England Whalers (NHL, 1973). In all, 3 teams from 2 leagues have called it home. On our ranked lists it ranks 30th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams and 232nd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

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• 30th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams
• 232nd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 40th shortest-lived of 46 basketball arenas with known opening and closing years
• 2nd longest single tenancy (48 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 32nd shortest-lived of 40 hockey arenas with known opening and closing years
• 2nd longest single tenancy (66 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 37th shortest-lived of 43 NBA arenas with known opening and closing years
• 27th shortest-lived of 34 NHL arenas with known opening and closing years
• 11th shortest-lived of 13 WHA arenas with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

The site today

• TD Garden (opened 1995) now stands on or beside the site.
• The site is now occupied by The Hub on Causeway.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

Later venues are matched by the recorded coordinates in our own venue records.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

A season split between two home venues counts in full at each.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats: What stands on the site today.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 16 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, concert layout, Capacity, basketball layout, Capacity, hockey layout.