Sunday, June 11, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Otis House, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Mass. Although many people associate Beacon Hill with stately townhouses owned by wealthy Bostonians, there’s another side to the Hill. Explore the narrow streets and alleyways of the North Slope of Beacon Hill with Boston By Foot and Historic New England. Learn Read More…
Wednesday, May 10, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Otis House, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Mass. Join Lorna Condon, senior curator of Library and Archives, for an introduction to Historic New England’s outstanding ephemera collections. Examine and delight in advertisements, tickets, programs, menus, invitations, rewards of merit, greeting cards, broadsides, invoices, and trade catalogues, among other items, Read More…
Wednesday, May 3, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Otis House, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Mass. Otis House not only tells the story of one house over time on Beacon Hill, it also showcases some of Historic New England’s best Boston-made furniture. Join Senior Curator of Collections Nancy Carlisle as she offers an in-depth look at some Read More…
Saturday, April 1, 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. Otis House, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Mass. The Boston House Museum Alliance presents its spring 2017 tour series, Business as Usual: Families and Work at Boston’s Historic Houses. For these special tours, Otis House, Gibson House, Paul Revere House, Prescott House, and Nichols House draw on their rich Read More…
Saturday, March 25, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Otis House, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Mass. Hear the stories of Otis House as experienced by the women who lived there. Otis House has been home to many remarkable women, from a wealthy politician’s wife and mother in the late eighteenth century, to an entrepreneur and holistic physician Read More…
Sunday, May 14, 10:00 a.m. – noon Otis House, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Mass. This Mother’s Day, take a stroll around Beacon Hill and discover the women who shaped the neighborhood’s history over the centuries, including Julia Ward Howe, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and many others. Hear stories of a wide range of Read More…