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Category: boston social history series (4)

Boston Public Library

Becoming Back Bay

Learn why Boston's Back Bay is considered a marvel of 19th Century engineering

Walking Tours : Monthly & Quarterly
90 minutes
0.9 mile
mostly flat surfaces and little to no inclines
Gilded Age photo

Boston's Gilded Age

Learn about Boston's upper-class during the late 19th century - their favorite haunts and their social activism

Walking Tours : Monthly & Quarterly
90 minutes
1.1 miles
mostly flat surfaces and little to no inclines
Star of David stained glass in Circular Window

Jewish Beacon Hill

Learn where Boston’s Jewish West End residents worked, lived and worshipped - including The Vilna Shul

Walking Tours : Monthly & Quarterly
90 minutes
0.75 mile
likely uneven surfaces and significant inclines