Historic places to visit in Boston, Massachusetts

62 National Register places in Boston with full, sourced guides, 8 of them confirmed open to visitors. Listing does not mean a place is open to the public; access is shown only where a source confirms it.

Boston AthenaeumLandmark
Boston AthenaeumBoston, MA · Building
Faneuil HallLandmark
Faneuil HallBoston, MA · Building
Old North ChurchLandmark
Old North ChurchBoston, MA · Building
Old State HouseLandmark
Old State HouseBoston, MA · Building
Boston Naval ShipyardLandmark
Boston Naval ShipyardBoston, MA · District
Boston Public LibraryLandmark
Boston Public LibraryBoston, MA · Building
Bunker Hill MonumentLandmark
Bunker Hill MonumentBoston, MA · Structure
Ether Dome, Massachusetts General HospitalLandmark
Ether Dome, Massachusetts General HospitalBoston, MA · Building
Fenway StudiosLandmark
Fenway StudiosBoston, MA · Building
  1. Old North Church Open to visitors
    Old North Church (officially Christ Church in the City of Boston) is an Episcopal church on Salem Street in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  2. Faneuil Hall Open to visitors
    Faneuil Hall (, , or ) is a historic building in Downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  3. Old State House Open to visitors
    The Old State House (originally the Second Town-House; also the Court House, Province House, or Old Provincial State House) is a historic building at 206 Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  4. Old South Meeting House Open to visitors
    The Old South Meeting House is a museum and historic church building at 310 Washington Street, on the corner with Milk Street, in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  5. Boston Athenaeum Open to visitors
    The Boston Athenæum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States.
  6. Revere, Paul, House Open to visitors
    The Paul Revere House is a historic house museum at 19 North Square in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  7. Boston Naval Shipyard Open to visitors
    Boston Navy Yard (also known as Charlestown Navy Yard and Boston Naval Shipyard) is a former shipyard in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston in Massachusetts, United States.
  8. Bunker Hill Monument Open to visitors
    The Bunker Hill Monument is a war memorial on Breed's Hill in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  9. Boston Public Library Access information not verified
    The Central Library (also the Copley Square Library) is the main location of the Boston Public Library (BPL), occupying a full city block on Copley Square in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  10. Quincy Market Access information not verified
    Quincy Market (originally Faneuil Hall Market) is a historic marketplace complex in Downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  11. Fenway Studios Access information not verified
    The Fenway Studios are artists' studios located at 30 Ipswich Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
  12. Sears, David, House Access information not verified
    The three-story house was built in several stages between 1816 and 1875.
  13. Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital Access information not verified
    The Ether Dome is a surgical operating amphitheater in the Bulfinch Building at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  14. Brook Farm Access information not verified
    Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s.
  15. King's Chapel Access information not verified
    King's Chapel is an independent Unitarian congregation in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  16. U.S.S. CONSTITUTION Access information not verified
    USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy.
  17. Pierce-Hichborn House Access information not verified
    Built c. 1711, it is adjacent to the Paul Revere House and is operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere Memorial Association.
  18. Symphony Hall Access information not verified
    Symphony Hall is a concert hall that is home to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  19. Boston Young Men's Christian Union Access information not verified
    The Boston Young Men's Christian Union is a historic building at 48 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts and a liberal Protestant youth association.
  20. Old Corner Bookstore Access information not verified
    The Old Corner Bookstore is a historic commercial building at the northwest corner of Washington and School streets in the Downtown Boston section of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  21. South Station Headhouse Access information not verified
    South Station is a railroad terminal located at Dewey Square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.
  22. Fort Warren Access information not verified
    Fort Warren is a historic fort on the 28-acre (110,000 m2) Georges Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor.
  23. Boston Common Access information not verified
    The Boston Common is a public park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.
  24. Boston Light Access information not verified
    Boston Light is a lighthouse located on Little Brewster Island in outer Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.
  25. USS CASSIN YOUNG (destroyer) Access information not verified
    USS Cassin Young (DD-793) is a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy named for Captain Cassin Young (1894–1942), who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and killed in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942.
  26. LUNA (tugboat) Access information not verified
    Luna is a historic tugboat normally berthed in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.
  27. Wirth, Jacob, Buildings Access information not verified
    The Jacob Wirth Restaurant was a historic German-American restaurant and bar in Boston, Massachusetts, at 31-39 Stuart Street.
  28. Back Bay Historic District Access information not verified
    Back Bay is an officially recognized historic neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin.
  29. Loring-Greenough House Access information not verified
    The Loring–Greenough House is the last surviving 18th century residence in Sumner Hill, a historic section of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston.
  30. First Baptist Church Access information not verified
    The First Baptist Church (or "Brattle Square Church") is a historic American Baptist Churches USA congregation, established in 1665.
  31. West Street District Access information not verified
    The West Street District is a historic district on West Street in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the city's "ladder districts" that runs between Tremont Street and Washington Street in the Downtown Crossing commercial/retail area.
  32. Beach-Knapp District Access information not verified
    The Beach-Knapp District encompasses a collection of six 19th-century buildings in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
  33. Youth's Companion Building Access information not verified
    The Youth's Companion Building is a historic building at 209 Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts.
  34. Fenway Park Access information not verified
    Fenway Park is a ballpark in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, close to Kenmore Square.
  35. Long Island Head Light Access information not verified
    Long Island Head Light is an historic lighthouse on Long Island in Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts.
  36. Blackstone Block Historic District Access information not verified
    The Blackstone Block Historic District encompasses what was once a waterfront business area in Boston, Massachusetts.
  37. Town Hill District Access information not verified
    The Town Hill District is a historic district bounded roughly by Rutherford Avenue and Main and Warren Streets in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
  38. Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District Access information not verified
    The Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District is a historic district encompassing the Chestnut Hill Reservoir and the surrounding water works facilities which were historically used to provide fresh water to Boston, Massachusetts, and surrounding towns.
  39. United State Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Building Access information not verified
    The John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse, formerly the United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Building, is a historic building at 5 Post Office Square in Boston, Massachusetts.
  40. Highland Spring Brewery Bottling and Storage Buildings Access information not verified
    The Highland Spring Brewery Bottling and Storage Buildings, including the Oliver Ditson Company Building, are located at 154-166 Terrace St. in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
  41. Second Brazer Building Access information not verified
    The Second Brazer Building is an office building at 25-29 State Street in Boston, Massachusetts, with a locally significant early Beaux Arts design.
  42. Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex Access information not verified
    The Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex is a historic sewage treatment facility at 435 Mount Vernon Street on Columbia Point in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts which was built in the 1880s.
  43. Dill Building Access information not verified
    The Dill Building is an historic building at 11–25 Stuart Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
  44. Sears' Crescent and Sears' Block Access information not verified
    Sears' Crescent and Sears' Block are a pair of adjacent historic buildings located along Cornhill in Boston, Massachusetts.
  45. Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England Access information not verified
    The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England is a historic Greek Orthodox church in Boston, Massachusetts that was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England in 1988.
  46. New Riding Club Access information not verified
    The New Riding Club is an historic building at 52 Hemenway Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
  47. Charlestown Heights Access information not verified
    Charlestown Heights, later known as Ensign John J. Doherty Park, is an urban park in Charlestown, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
  48. St. Mary's Episcopal Church Access information not verified
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  49. Eliot Burying Ground Access information not verified
    Eliot Burying Ground (or ""Eustis Street Burying Ground" or "First Burying Ground in Roxbury") is a historic seventeenth-century graveyard at Eustis and Washington Streets in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
  50. Old Harbor Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston Access information not verified
    The Old Harbor Reservation Parkways are three historic roads in South Boston.
  51. Roxbury Highlands Historic District Access information not verified
    Fort Hill is a 0.4 square mile neighborhood and historic district of Roxbury, in Boston, Massachusetts.
  52. Boston Consumptives Hospital Access information not verified
    The Boston Sanatorium (originally named the Boston Consumptives Hospital) is a historic tuberculosis hospital in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
  53. Egleston Substation Access information not verified
    The Egleston Substation is a historic electrical substation building located at 3025 Washington Street in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, just north of Egleston Square.
  54. Pierce House Access information not verified
    Built c. 1683, It documents period building practices, and the tastes and housing needs of one family, the Pierces, over more than three centuries.
  55. VFW Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston Access information not verified
    The Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway (referred to locally as the VFW Parkway) is a historic parkway in Boston, Massachusetts.
  56. Douglass, Frederick, Square Historic District Access information not verified
    The Frederick Douglass Square Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Hammond Street, Cabot Street, Windsor Street, and Westminster Street, in the Lower Roxbury area of Boston, Massachusetts.
  57. Eagle Hill Historic District Access information not verified
    The Eagle Hill Historic District is a residential historic district roughly bounded by Meridian, Princeton, and White Streets meeting in Prescott Square in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  58. Brighton Center Historic District Access information not verified
    The Brighton Center Historic District encompasses the civic center of the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
  59. Mission Hill Triangle Historic District Access information not verified
    Mission Hill is a 3⁄4 square mile (2 square km), primarily residential neighborhood of Boston, bordered by Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Fenway-Kenmore and the town of Brookline.
  60. Hibernian Hall Access information not verified
    The Hibernian Hall is a historic building at 182-186 Dudley Street in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
  61. Pilgrim Congregational Church Access information not verified
    Pilgrim Congregational Church is a historic church building at 540-544 Columbia Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
  62. Hoxie, Timothy, House Access information not verified
    The Timothy Hoxie House is a historic house in Boston, Massachusetts.

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