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Boston By Foot
In Washington's Footsteps
This walk follows the first President on his six-day visit to Boston as part of his post-inaugural tour of New England in October 1789. In 1789, Boston was on the cusp of transformation, its economy rebounding from the war years, with its advances in industry, technology, and commerce on display for ...
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Jewish Beacon Hill
Explore the lives of Jewish residents of Beacon Hill's North Slope
Journey to Beacon Hill’s North Slope at the turn of the 20th century. Explore the lives of its Jewish residents during a period of cultural and architectural change. Uncover how Boston’s Jewish immigrants created an active community that blended customs from Eastern Europe and changes to the new ...
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Leather District
Explore Boston’s Leather District, nestled between South Station and Chinatown
Join us to explore the rich past, present and future of Boston’s Leather District, nestled between South Station and Chinatown. Once part of South Cove and largely built after Boston’s Great Fire of 1872, this commercial district reigned as the hub of New England’s leather and shoe industries at ...
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Notable Women of Beacon Hill
Explore notable women who lived in worked in Beacon Hill
Explore beautiful, historic Beacon Hill with your guide and be introduced to a variety of notable women who lived and worked in this neighborhood. Discover where Elizabeth Palmer Peabody founded the U.S. kindergarten movement, and where the first African American woman doctor, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler ...
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Reinventing Boston
Discover how Boston’s urban landscape has changed as you uncover the clues left behind.
Explore Boston on this guided walking tour to reveal the cycles of invention and reinvention that have shaped the city's built environment and forged a dynamic contemporary city. As we trace some of Boston’s earliest streets, we’ll also consider clues that were once above our heads and that ...
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Road to the Vote
BOSTONIANS FIGHT FOR CHANGE SERIES
The Road to the Vote for national woman suffrage was a long and arduous one. Along the way, countless suffragists, in Boston, and across the nation, organized, wrote, fundraised, marched, picketed, boycotted, and went on hunger strikes to call attention to their cause. Generations of women fought in ...
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Rowes Wharf: Sensationally Good City Making
Learn about the modern Rowes Wharf and how colonial wharves transformed the city
When the modern Rowes Wharf was conceived in 1982, it was a design competition with a bold vision of a new Boston. Learn why this building was such a breakthrough, and how it remains at the center of 21st-century Boston. Our hour-long, accessible, quarter-mile tour will lead you through memories of colonial ...
Sam Adams' Boston: Toast to a Patriot
Explore the life and influence of patriot, Samuel Adams, then raise a glass at the Taproom after!
Explore the life and influence of patriot Samuel Adams. The Man of the Revolution, Samuel Adams was also a man of contradictions. On this tour, visit historic colonial sites as you learn about Samuel Adams' early business failures, his genius in the run-up to Revolution, his descent into obscurity ...
Slavery and Abolition in Massachusetts
New for 2024! Explore Massachusetts's complex and long history of slavery
Explore the events and some of the lesser-known people that were a part of Massachusetts’ complex and long history of slavery, from the arrival of European colonists on the Shawmut Peninsula to the passage of the 13th Amendment. Securing full citizenship rights for African Americans in Boston and the ...
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Theater District
Experience the colorful history of theatre in Boston!
Join us for a unique 2 hour Theater History program that includes both Boston By Foot's guided Theater District tour followed by a guided tour of the interior of the Historic Boch Center Wang Theatre & Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame. Presented in collaboration with The Boch Center Wang Theatre. ...
Toward a More Perfect Union
Boston is often called the cradle of liberty—but what does that legacy mean today? This tour invites you to explore the powerful ideas that took root here—due process, separation of powers, and freedom of speech—and to examine how they were shaped by protest, oppression, and the determination to ...
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Art Deco in Boston's Financial District
Art Deco is said to be one of the few architectural styles that most Americans can recognize and name, and its enduring popularity bears this out. Though Boston is less well-known for its Art Deco architecture than New York and Miami, it can claim examples of Art Deco design that would rival New York's ...
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Boston's Gilded Age
Explore the social clubs and cultural institutions of Boston's Brahmins.
During the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, Boston's Back Bay was alive with social clubs and thriving cultural institutions. On this tour we will explore the favorite haunts of Boston's upper-class, often known as "Boston Brahmins." Though "Brahmins" had a reputation ...
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Change and Response: Boston's Architecture
Track Boston’s architectural development on this short, engaging guided tour
This tour tracks Boston’s development in chronological order on a walk that’s just a half-mile long. Along the way, we’ll be paying special attention to what Robert Campbell, the Boston Globe’s long time architectural critic, calls the encoded information that is present when we look closely ...
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Beacon Hill with a BOO!
For more than 30 years, this tour has been part of any great Halloween celebration in Boston
Join Boston By Foot for our most popular event of the year! For more than 30 years, this tour has been part of any great Halloween celebration in Boston. There is no better place than Beacon Hill to walk to the dark side on All Hallow’s Eve. On the Boo! tour, you will hear stories that shed a new light ...
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Gift Card for BBF Membership
Invite your friends and loved ones to be part of our community of lifelong learners!
In addition to being part of our vibrant community, BBF members enjoy unlimited free admission to almost all of our public walking tours, and discounted admission to our two annual celebration tours: Footloose on the Freedom Trail and Beacon Hill with a BOO! Members also receive free admission to our ...
Gift Card for Tour Attendance
Give them an experience they’ll remember!
Thank you for supporting Boston By Foot! Gift Cards may be purchased in any dollar amount, and may be redeemed to attend our tours in any of the following ways: Public Walking Tour Admission Admission price varies slightly depending on tour selection, but the majority are priced at $17 for Adults and ...
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Community Pass Program
The best way for your organization to join us on tour!
Boston By Foot’s Community Pass Program is the best way for institutions to purchase discounted tickets for their patrons, guests, students and supporters. The program is ideal for: Libraries Universities Community Education Organizations Fraternal and Service Organizations Other civic or affinity ...
Bay Village
Visit one of Boston's hidden neighborhoods with residential charm amidst the surrounding city
Duration, Distance, Terrain 1.5 hours 1 mile at a moderate pace, stopping at various sites along the tour About Visit one of Boston's hidden neighborhoods, an area that has maintained its residential charm amidst the surrounding city. This tour begins behind the Park Plaza Hotel, at Statler Park, ...
Eliot Burying Ground
Explore extraordinary gravestones, tombs, and funerary art reflecting three centuries of change
The Eliot Burying Ground has stood at the crossroads of Roxbury's history for nearly four centuries. From early Puritan settlers and Indigenous history to Roxbury's role in the American Revolution—when the burying ground became part of a military redoubt during the Siege of Boston—this ...
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