Walking tours of Boston
316 places in Boston, Massachusetts are on the National Register of Historic Places. Neoclassical is the style recorded most often on these buildings.
3 themed routes run through those listings. Of the routes below, one follows a single style and two follow one kind of building. A subject becomes a route only where the register holds enough of it close enough together to walk.
Every listing in Boston → · 316 in all
The routes
- StyleFederal houses in Boston13 stops · 1.7 miles · stops last changed Oct 16, 2026Federal architecture is a restrained classical manner with flat wall surfaces, fanlights over the door and delicate ornament around openings and mantels. The Boston examples on this route went up between 1795 and 1816.
- Building typeHouses and mansions in Boston15 stops · 1.7 miles · stops last changed Oct 16, 2026The route links houses built between 1713 and 1909. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk.
- Building typeChurches and temples in Boston10 stops · 2.0 miles · stops last changed Oct 16, 2026The route links churches built between 1749 and 1877. Congregations still use many of them and access depends on the hours they keep.
Every route holds at least ten stops and stays under two and a half miles. Routes are computed from the coordinates in the National Park Service National Register spatial data or, where it has no point, Wikidata, and the distances are straight lines between stops. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed October 17, 2026.
Local history books for Boston
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Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Massachusetts
Titles come from Open Library's catalog, matched by subject heading or by title.