Organization

Literary Landmarks Walking Tour

Presented by Boston By Foot at Borders Book Store - School Street

June 3, 2009 - Ongoing

During the nineteenth century, Boston was the most important literary center in the United States and was home to many of America's greatest writers. Our literary tour highlights the homes and haunts of such great Victorians as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James and Henry Wadsworth...

The Adams Family in Boston Walking Tour

Presented by Boston By Foot

February 18, 2013

Join John and Abigail Adams and three generations of their descendants on a walk from the Old State House across Beacon Hill and into the Back Bay. Hear how the Adams Family experienced Boston from the eve of the Revolution to the turn of the twentieth century.

3-5 p.m.  Meet in front of 12 State street, near the Old State House

Centers of Medicine: Longwood Medical Area

Presented by Boston By Foot

September 30, 2012

The Longwood Medical Area is a world-renowned community of hospitals, academic institutions, and biomedical research centers including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. This city within a city was the birthplace of landmark medical contributions such...

Bostonians Behaving Badly | A Boston By Foot Walking Tour

Presented by Boston By Foot

September 12, 2012

Get in touch with your inner rebel and experience a most riotous tour through four centuries of protests, social violence and at times downright bad behavior. Known for the protests of the Stamp Act and Boston Tea Party, rebellions and uprisings took place throughout Boston's history. There's no city more riotous than Boston.

We'll...

Walking Tour of Davis Square

Presented by Boston By Foot at Somerville Theatre

July 29, 2012

From streetcar suburb to urban decay to one of the "hippest places to live" in the United States, Somerville's Davis Square has seen it all. An ideal balance of old and new, Davis Square’s business and coffeeshops that cater to students and young professionals are co-mingled with working-class diners and repair shops from the...

The North Slope of Beacon Hill

Presented by Boston By Foot at Massachusetts Statehouse

May 27, 2012

The story of Beacon Hill's North Slope has long been eclipsed by the famous architects and well- known history of the South Slope. Come discover the story unique to the Hill's "other" side—one of an integrated working-class community, a 19th-century free black community, resident activists and reformers, the 20th-century arrival...