Beacon Hill Walking Tour

The Otis House Museum will offer walking tours of Boston’s Beacon Hill each Saturday, May through October.  Go beyond the brick sidewalks and charming gardens and learn about Beacon Hill’s development in the Federal era. The fortunes, ambitions, and struggles of Beacon Hill’s early residents, both wealthy and working class, shaped the streets, architecture, and character of the hill.

The program starts with a tour of the Otis House, the earliest intact mansion in the neighborhood, and continues on Beacon Hill’s historic streets. After visiting the house, the tour continues onto Beacon Hill where visitors discover the neighborhood as it was in the early 1800s—a thriving urban district of mansions with gracious gardens and small wooden houses crowded into back alleys.  A guide leads visitors through the tree-lined streets where the affluent resided, and also to the humbler NorthSlope, an area which was home to Boston’s working class.

What: Beacon Hill Walking Tour

When: Saturdays, May through October, 2012, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Cost: $12 per person, $6 Historic New England members

Where: Tour begins at the Otis House Museum, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114

Details: Tour size is limited.  Reservations recommended.

For More Information: (617) 994-5920 or www.HistoricNewEngland.org

Group tours available; call for availability.

 About Historic New England

Historic New England is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive regional heritage organization in the nation. We bring history to life while preserving the past for everyone interested in exploring the New England experience from the seventeenth century to today. Historic New England owns and operates thirty-six historic homes and landscapes spanning five states. We share the region’s history through vast collections, publications, programs, museum properties, archives, and family stories that document more than 400 years of life in New

England.