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Boston Garden
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Location Boston, Massachusetts
Opened November 17, 1928
Closed September 28, 1995
Demolished March 1998
Other Names Boston Madison Square Garden
Tenants Boston Bruins (1928-1995)
Boston Celtics (1946-1995)
New England Whalers (1973-1974)

Boston Garden was an arena in Boston, Massachusetts. Designed by boxing promoter Tex Rickard, who also built the third iteration of New York's Madison Square Garden, it opened on November 17, 1928 as "Boston Madison Square Garden" (later shortened to just "Boston Garden") and outlived its original namesake by 30 years. It was above North Station, a train station which was originally a hub for the Boston and Maine Railroad and is now a hub for MBTA Commuter Rail and Amtrak trains.

The Garden hosted home games for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as rock concerts, amateur sports, boxing and professional wrestling matches, circuses, and ice shows. Boston Garden was demolished in 1998, three years after the completion of its new successor arena, TD Garden.

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1948-49 Boston Celtics National Basketball Association
1949-50 Boston Celtics National Basketball Association
1980-81 Boston Celtics National Basketball Association

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