Charles Street
The tour gathers on Boston Common at the intersection of Beacon and Charles Streets. Please meet your guide at 1 Charles Street (02108), inside Boston Common and across the street from Starbucks Coffee.
Charles Street
The tour gathers on Boston Common at the intersection of Beacon and Charles Streets. Please meet your guide at 1 Charles Street (02108), inside Boston Common and across the street from Starbucks Coffee.
Boston Common
(Pass by)
Oldest public land in the Americas and Boston's communal grazing pasture (1634)
Acorn Street
Narrow cobblestone alleyways wind throughout historic Beacon Hill
Louisburg Square
(Pass by)
Elegant neighborhood square from elite world of 19th-century "Boston Brahmins"
Phillips School
Built as a whites-only school in 1824, but among the first schools to integrate in Boston by 1855
John J Smith House
Home of leading abolitionist, state legislator, and former barber
Charles Street
(Pass by)
Primary thoroughfare of Beacon Hill, lined with local shops and restaurants
Charles Street Meeting House
Historic meeting house (1807) and site of contentious debate over racial integration
John Coburn House
(Pass by)
Home of African-American community activist and abolitionist
Lewis and Harriet Hayden House
Underground Railroad safe house owned by the Haydens, staunch abolitionists who were formerly enslaved
Otis House
1796 residence of Harrison Gray Otis, Boston mayor and nephew of revolutionary James Otis, Jr.
Old West Church
(Pass by)
Historic 1806 church designed by noted architect Asher Benjamin
Hancock St
(Pass by)
Home of outspoken abolitionist and U.S. Senator beaten unconscious in the Capitol over the issue of slavery in 1856.
Smith Court Residences
(Pass by)
Homes of several African-American abolitionists, including historian William Cooper Nell
Abiel Smith School
(Pass by)
Founded in 1835 as segregated school for Boston's African-American children
African Meeting House
Cultural center of Boston's African-American community and oldest extant black church building in the U.S. (1806)
5 Pinckney St
Oldest extant house in Beacon Hill (1787) was home to African-American Revolutionary War veteran
Massachusetts State House
(Pass by)
Massachusetts state capitol and "Hub of the Solar System" (1798)
Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial
Our tour concludes beside the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial opposite 24 Beacon Street.
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