Come experience the history and preservation efforts of Charlestown using a combination of a new Mobile Neighborhood Walking Tour App and real-time narrators.  Special events are planned at each location as well as lunch and games at the end of the tour.

Kick-off is 10:30 a.m. The tour is from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Hot Dogs and Burgers are from 1 - 2 p.m. 

Rain date for this tour is May 20th at 10:30AM

During the tour, you'll visit the oldest community theater company in the United States and an elegant 18th-century mansion that served as one of the country’s first military hospitals. You'll learn about the monument that commemorates fallen Civil War soldiers from West Roxbury, and about Pauline Agassiz Shaw who established a project in Jamaica Plain that became the model for continuous free kindergarten education.

We will also visit a house dating to 1716 that once served as a tavern, the Eliot School dating back to 1689, the home of the first woman to graduate from MIT, and the First Church Burial Ground.

Please note: the tour will be canceled in the case of heavy rain.

Originally marshland bisected by a narrow strip of land called The Neck (now Washington Street), the South End consists of historic residential blocks, parks, and main thoroughfares with commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings. The marsh was filled, and in 1850 real estate speculators started building fashionable, single-family rowhouses. Restrictions on building size and materials meant residential structures in long uniform rows, resulting in remarkable visual unity throughout the area. After the Financial Panic of 1873, the most wealthy Bostonians moved to the brand new Back Bay. For further historical background please see South End Landmark District Study Report.

The conversation will focus on climate change and how it may affect Boston's built environment, and specifically historic structures.

This event will be free and open to the public and registration is not required. We encourage those who are interested in these topics to join the conversation and help us protect Boston's historic treasures!

This walk will be led by Dr. Rory Browne, Franklin Park Zoo historian and member of Zoo New England’s Board of Directors. During the tour, Dr. Browne will highlight the history of several notable zoo landmarks, including the bird’s world exhibit and flight cage, the promenade, folly tower, and the statues that greet visitors at the zoo’s giraffe entrance.

Founded in 1912, Franklin Park Zoo is a 72-acre site nestled in Boston’s historic Franklin Park, long considered the "crown jewel" of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace Park System. Designers and early proponents wanted to make the best use of the natural landscape, and saw the zoo as an educational and recreational institution – just like today!

This walking tour is free with paid Franklin Park Zoo admission. Space is limited and pre-registration is required.

What do a 17th-century Japanese Temple Bell, a bridge made of Roxbury puddingstone, and a tree once thought extinct have in common? They all reside in the Back Bay Fens. Learn about these and other treasures on a guided walking tour of the Back Bay Fens that is sure to bring out the history detective in you!

Meet us at the Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway. This event is free and open to the public. Bring a refillable water bottle and wear comfortable walking shoes.

Debra has volunteered to lead public programs and bird watching trips, banded migratory birds, and participated in bird counts, primarily for Massachusetts Audubon Society’s (MAS) Joppa Flats sanctuary in Newburyport. Her birding places range from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island to the La Milpa Field Station in Belize, where she conducted bird banding training sessions for researchers and naturalists, and to Cuba, where she participated in a Cuban Bird Survey. This January, Listernick co-led a MAS trip along the Rio Grande Valley from El Paso to Albuquerque.

These programs look at the rich history of the African American community on Beacon Hill in the 19th century, with a focus on the abolition movement, the Underground Railroad, and the early struggles for equal rights in Boston.

Grove Hall buildings illustrate a variety of architectural styles, from Queen Anne and the Colonial Revival of the late 1800s through Craftsman and Art Deco of the 20th century.

The tour leader is architectural historian Ed Gordon. This free Artweek Boston event is sponsored by Grove Hall Main Streets.

This tour of Boston's Historic Beacon Hill District will highlight the architectural prowess of renowned architect Charles Bulfinch. The tour will be led by the Boston Landmarks Commission's Director of Design Review Joseph Cornish.

Reservations are required! Email Mr. Cornish.