Founded in 1807 as a literary society, the Boston Athenæum published America's first literary magazine and acquired an extensive library of books and works of art. It moved to...

Established in 1800 at the point where the Mystic and Charles Rivers converge, this was once the country's premier naval dockyard. Its most famous occupant is the USS...

Designed in 1761 by the country's first trained architect, Peter Harrison, Christ Church was a hotbed of rebel activity during the Revolutionary War. The walls are still...

Built for the city by the wealthy merchant Peter Faneuil in 1742, the hall was later remodelled by ubiquitous Boston architect Charles Bulfinch. It had a dual function as a...

The Italian Renaissance-style townhouse, designed by local architect Edward Clarke Cabot and completed in 1860, was one of the first to be built in Back Bay. Although the...

The modest former home of the country's 35th president has been restored to its appearance at the time of his birth in 1917. It includes the earliest of presidential artefacts:...

George Washington made this pretty, 28-room mansion his Continental Army headquarters from 1775 to 1776, before following the war front further south. In 1837 it became a...

Designed by Bulfinch and completed in 1798, this magnificent structure replaced the old legislative building across Boston Common, which had been the headquarters of the...

Second only to Faneuil Hall as a centre of dissent during Boston's Revolutionary era, the Old South Meeting House (1729) combines the simple design of a Puritan meeting house...

Incongruously but elegantly set in the midst of modern skyscrapers and congested traffic, this former legislative house is the oldest surviving public building in Boston. It...

Built in 1809, the Park Street Church was known as 'Brimstone Corner' during the war of 1812 - not for its fiery sermons about hellfire and damnation, but because gunpowder was...

Built in 1680 - making it the oldest surviving structure in downtown Boston - the Paul Revere House was constructed on the site of the parsonage that was home to Puritan...

Built in the mid 1820s, when Boston's population was rapidly outgrowing the smaller marketplace in Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market was originally right on the harbour (the...

This Georgian mansion, the only remaining house in America that was built by a royal colonial governor, is a National Historic Landmark. It went up between 1747 and 1751, and...