Brick row houses on a hill the city cut down, a Back Bay built on ground Boston made, and a red line on the sidewalk linking the buildings it refused to lose. Across the Charles, Harvard's Yard and MIT's experiments in stone, concrete and steel. Four walks at your own pace, from the Common to Kendall Square.
Articles
Boston Travel Guide: How Many Days, Getting Around, When to Go (2026)
Cultural·4 min
One Day in Boston: A Walkable Downtown Itinerary (2026)
Cultural·8 min
What to Eat in Boston: A Food Guide (2026)
Cultural·4 min
The African Meeting House: The Oldest Black Church Standing in America
Companion·10 min
The Other Olmsted: How Boston's Park System Is the Engineering Central Park Could Not Be
Companion·12 min
The Line Along the Ridge: How Beacon Hill's Two Slopes Argued Out Antebellum America
Companion·11 min
The City the College Is Inside Of: How Cambridge Out-Voted Its Universities Three Times
Companion·12 min
The Trail as an Argument: How a 1951 Newspaper Column Reorganized American Memory
Companion·13 min
How to See Boston: A City of Lines
Cultural·12 min
105 Brattle Street: Washington's Headquarters and Longfellow's House
Companion·9 min
The Substrate and the Stack: How One Boston Neighborhood Held Four Cities in a Row
Companion·12 min
The Old State House: One Building, Two Governments
Companion·7 min
St. Stephen's Church: One Building, Four Waves
Companion·8 min
Trinity Church: A Stone Church on a Buried Forest
Companion·10 min
Best Self-Guided Walking Tours in Boston (2026)
Cultural·4 min
Best History Walking Tours in Boston (2026)
Cultural·2 min
