Tours of the Month

Explore the new Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway on this 2-hour special walking tour offered by Boston By Foot. The Greenway is Boston's new centerpiece of the Big Dig's urban restoration. From North Station to Chinatown, the Greenway is breathing new life into the downtown neighborhoods once blighted by an elevated highway.

Visit one of Boston's hidden neighborhoods; a miniature, garden-filled area that has maintained its residential charm amidst the surrounding city.

Developed in the 1820s and 1830s by craftsman who worked on the more elegant homes of Beacon Hill. Later inhabited by the actors and musicians of the Theatre District, learn of the deadly Cocoanut Grove fire, the Prohibition-era Speakeasies, and how to raise a street.

In 1775, when George Washington arrived in Massachusetts, he made his headquarters in the abandoned mansions of wealthy loyalists along Brattle Street in Cambridge. Walk through one of America's finest neighborhoods and see elegant examples of early New England architecture.

Brattle Street residents also included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Declaration signer Elbridge Gerry, cartoonist Al Capp, presidents of Harvard University, and the inventors of Fig Newtons, baking powder and Polaroid cameras.

See two of Brookline's most delightful neighborhoods. Longwood and Cottage Farm provide a quiet, bucolic setting apart from its urban borders. This walking tour showcases a remarkable collection of romantic English country style cottages and picturesque churches.

Art Deco is said to be one of the few architectural styles recognizable by most Americans. Boston can claim examples of Art Deco rivaling New York's finest. Walk through Boston's financial district to see examples of Art Deco in government, business, theater, religious, and retail buildings.

Explore a wonderful area of Dorchester, a town even older than Boston. Ashmont Hill was the site of several Colonial estates eventually giving way to lovely Victorian homes in this 19th century garden suburb.

See one of the finest Gothic Revival churches ever built in the United States and the neighborhood Mayor John Honey Fitz Fitzgerald and daughter Rose Kennedy once called home.