Common Boston has sites all over Boston, Somerville, Brookline, and Cambridge! From innovation to historic, from landscape to sacred spaces, sites are categorized by type so you can explore their histories and plan your weekend. Click on the site’s name for more details on hours, access and activities.
Click on the map to go to a google map of the sites
For information on a few sites that request preregistration for tours click HERE
Community Spaces: Boston Public Market
Educational: Northeastern University ISEC
Community Spaces
1 BNN Media Center | 2 Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building | 3 Boston Public Market | 4 Community Boat Building | 5 Hibernian Hall | 6 YMCA of Greater Boston | 7 Y2Y Harvard Square | 8 Zumix
DHS: James Blake House
Innovation: Girard
Innovation
23 Boston Harbor Distillery | 24 District Hall | 25 Girard | 26 Grain Wood Shop | 27 Hosteling International Boston | 28 L Street Power Station | 29 Union Press | NEW Restoration Resources
Historic
12 Ayer Mansion | 13 Cambridge City Hall | 14 Cooper Frost Austin House | 15 DHS: Capt. Lemuel Clap House | 16 DHS: James Blake House | 17 DHS: William Clap House | 18 Eliot Burying Ground | 19 Eustis Street Firehouse | 20 Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site | 21 Loring-Greenough House | 22 Otis House
Libraries: Mattapan Branch
Musuems & Galleries: Ethelbert Cooper Gallery
Museums & Galleries
36 BSA Space | 37 Carpenter Center for Visual Arts | 38 Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art | 39 Ether Dome and the Bulfinch Building, MGH | 40 List Arts Center, MIT | 41 Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University | 42 Metropolitian Waterworks Museum | 43 Museum of African American History | 44 Paul S. Russell, M.D. Museum of Medical History & Innovation
Libraries
30 BPL: Central Library at Copley | 31 BPL: East Boston Branch | 32 BPL: Honan Allston Branch | 33 BPL: Hyde Park Branch |
34 BPL: Jamaica Plain Branch | 35 BPL: Mattapan Branch
Sacred Spaces: Trinity Church
Landscape: Arnold Arboretum
