Woburn Real Estate

Woburn was a tannery city for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and leather work shaped its downtown, its rail lines and the mix of houses close to the center. The Middlesex Canal once passed through on its way from the Merrimack River to Boston. Today the city sits at the crossroads of I-93 and Route 128, which brought office parks and retail to its edges while Woburn Center kept its older street grid.

Downtown centers on Main Street and the Woburn Common, steps from the Woburn Public Library, the first library designed by H.H. Richardson and a National Historic Landmark. Horn Pond, a glacial pond less than a mile west of downtown, is ringed by conservation land with trails, fishing and paddling. North Woburn, Walnut Hill, Montvale and the West Side each have their own blend of older homes and later subdivisions.

Commuters often weigh Anderson RTC, at the city's eastern edge near I-93, against bus routes and highway access depending on which side of the city they choose. A home near Horn Pond and Woburn Center offers a different daily routine than a townhouse a few minutes from the Route 128 ramps.