Join the Chinese Historical Society of New England (CHSNE) on our Chinatown History Tours, a 90-minute walking tour exploring the history of Chinatown and tracking the changes the community has undergone over the decades.

This event will be a 90-minute outdoor walking tour and will cover a lot of ground. Please dress appropriately and wear comfortable shoes. CHSNE reserves the right to cancel and refund the tour in the case of extreme weather conditions.

The Chestnut Hill Reservoir was designed to be much more than a place to hold Boston's water supply. Take a walk beside it with landscape historian and Brighton-Allston Historical Society board member Jennifer Wilton and look for clues to its past landscape from original pictures and plans and the pieces that still survive.

Please note: this walk will occur rain or shine.

Come see this rarely opened landmark. You can climb the tower for fantastic views of the entire City and hear about its history.

In May of 1875, the citizens of Boston were shocked when a shipwreck off the coast of Cornwall, England, took the life of one of their youngest and most beloved surgeons, Dr. Susan Dimock.

In this illustrated lecture, author and photographer Susan Wilson shares images and tales from Susan Dimock’s life and final days, intertwining stories from her own 2018 research trip to the Isles of Scilly, where the disaster occurred, with new discoveries about Dr. Dimock and the heartbreaking shipwreck of 1875.

Following the lecture, guests are invited to walk with Susan Wilson to Dr. Dimock’s gravesite at Forest Hills.

Many of the 19th century’s preeminent architects, including William Preston, Gridley Fox Bryant, and Van Brunt and Howe, designed Forest Hills Cemetery’s main gate, stone bridge, and 19th century buildings along with monuments and mausoleums for wealthy clients.

Forest Hills’ founder, Henry A.S. Dearborn, was a civic leader with expertise in law and politics, as well as in landscape design and horticulture. The first president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Dearborn, along with others, helped shape the rural garden cemetery movement in America.

This walking tour lasts up to 90 minutes, with frequent stops over varied terrain. Meet at the Visitor’s Circle just inside the main gate. Please wear comfortable walking shoes and bring water.

Join us for a walking tour co-hosted by the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation and Brighton Main Streets, led by the Brighton-Allston Historical Society, on a beautiful Saturday morning! The tour is free and will last about one and half hours.

If rain is in the forecast, the makeup date is June 1, 2019.

Cambridge Street in Brighton and Allston has a long history dating back to the early 1800s as the connection between Boston and Cambridge.

Join us as Brighton Allston Historical Society board member John Broderick delves into this history, looking at topics such as the cattle industry, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the B & A rail yards, the Beacon Trotting Park, and much more.

For Boston's first 200 years, "a flown sheate, a faire winde, and a boune voyage" were wishes at the heart of the City's life and economy. Travel under sail was commonplace and central to the culture, across classes.

Join us for 10 memorable stories spanning that era, drawn from first-person accounts by Bostonians capturing the experience in letters, diaries, and memoirs. Pirates, storms, sea battles, wanderlust, exotic lands, romance, and Revolutionary politics all come alive.

More than good stories, though, these accounts walk through the dramatic development of the Town Cove and Boston's changing relationship with sea travel. In a broad stroke, they illustrate the influence of our port on the growth of the nation.

Art Deco is said to be one of the few architectural styles that most Americans can recognize and name, and its enduring popularity bears this out. Though Boston is less well-known for its Art Deco architecture than New York and Miami, it can claim examples of Art Deco design that would rival New York's finest.

Boston's greatest concentration of Art Deco is in the City's Financial District, an area substantially leveled by fire in 1872 and ripe for a second cycle of redevelopment 50 years later. Discover the downtown you often see, but rarely notice.