← The Boston 20 Top things to do · No. 03 of 20 See the Founding-Era Sites Beyond the trail’s greatest hits: the balcony where Boston first heard the Declaration, the pews where the Tea Party boiled over, downtown’s oldest house. Downtown State · Blue + Orange Year-round Everyone photographs Faneuil Hall and moves on….
The Loring-Greenough House is a Georgian-era mansion at the edge of Jamaica Plain’s Sumner Hill, set back behind a lawn at the junction of South and Centre Streets. Built in 1760 for the wealthy merchant and Loyalist Joshua Loring, the property was confiscated during the Revolution and briefly served as a hospital before passing into…
The Harrison Gray Otis House, often called Otis House, is a Federal-style mansion built in 1795-96 on Cambridge Street in Boston’s West End. Designed by architect Charles Bulfinch for the politician and real-estate developer Harrison Gray Otis, it was the first of three houses Bulfinch created for him and is now a National Historic Landmark….
The William Hickling Prescott House is a Federal-style townhouse on Beacon Street, overlooking Boston Common from the south slope of Beacon Hill. The western half of a twin double house at 54–55 Beacon Street, it was built in 1808 to a design attributed to Asher Benjamin. It takes its name from the pioneering American historian…
The Gibson House Museum is a remarkably intact Victorian row house on Beacon Street in Boston’s Back Bay. Built in 1859–1860 as one of the first homes in the newly filled Back Bay district, it was occupied by three generations of the Gibson family. The last resident, the eccentric poet Charles Hammond Gibson Jr., preserved…
The mansions and brownstones of Back Bay form one of the best-preserved collections of Victorian-era urban architecture in the United States. Built largely between the 1850s and 1880s on land reclaimed from the tidal flats of the Charles River, the neighborhood was laid out by architect Arthur Gilman on a French-inspired grid of wide, tree-lined…
The Nichols House Museum offers a rare look inside a Beacon Hill home, preserved much as it was lived in during the early 20th century. The brick townhouse at 55 Mount Vernon Street is attributed to celebrated architect Charles Bulfinch and was built around 1804 for politician Jonathan Mason. It became the lifelong home of…
Tucked into the North End’s North Square, the Paul Revere House is the oldest surviving structure in downtown Boston, built around 1680. Silversmith and Revolutionary patriot Paul Revere owned the home from 1770 to 1800, and it was from here that he set out on his famous midnight ride in April 1775. The small clapboard…
The Ebenezer Clough House is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Boston, tucked behind the Old North Church in the heart of the North End. Built around 1712-1715 by master bricklayer Ebenezer Clough, who lived there with his family, it is a rare survivor of the early Georgian brick dwellings that rose after a…
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