Boston African American National Historic Site
46 Joy Street
Boston, MA 02114-4025

Phone: 617-742-5415

The site contains 15 pre-Civil War African American history structures, linked by the 1.6-mile Black Heritage Trail. The meeting house is the oldest standing African American church in the U.S. Augustus Saint-Gaudens' memorial to Robert Gould Shaw, the white officer who first led African American troops during the Civil War, stands on the trail.

Boston National Historical Park
Charlestown Navy Yard
Visitor Center
Boston, MA 02129-4543

Phone: 617-242-5601

The events and ideas associated with the American Revolution and the founding and growth of the United States provide the common thread linking the sites that compose this park, among them Bunker Hill, Old North Church, Paul Revere House, Faneuil Hall, Old State House, and a portion of the Charlestown Navy Yard, including USS Constitution.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
99 Warren Street
Brookline, MA 02445-5930

Phone: 617-566-1689

This was the first large scale landscape architecture office in the United States, founded by Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. and continued by his sons. The site includes the Olmsted Archives and the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation.

Longfellow National Historic Site
105 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138-3407

Phone: 617-876-4491

The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House, George Washington's headquarters during the siege of Boston (1775-1776) was later home to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and family (1837-1950). Here Longfellow hosted writers, artists, and statesmen who helped kindle the "American Renaissance." There are decorative and fine arts, a library, and a research archive.