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  • Weighting the Wait, Open Theatre Project |

    St. Johns Episcopal 1 Roanoke Avenue, Jamaica Plain, MA

    Weighting the Wait, Open Theatre Project | World Premiere Devised Theatre | St. John's Episcopal Church, 1 Roanoke Ave, Jamaica Plain (Bell Tower Entrance) | May 22-30, 2026 | 8 performances only | Pay What You Can | Tickets: theopentheatre.com

  • Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour: Hyde Square

    Brendan Behan Pub 378 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

    Learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New England Conservatory of Music…

  • Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour: Stony Brook

    MBTA Stony Brook Station Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

    Explore a fascinating industrial area at the geographic heart of Boston that includes 19th-century tannery and brewery buildings, the homes of early German settlers, and today’s Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams. In the 1970s, a coalition of community groups joined together to block construction of the Southwest Expressway through Jamaica Plain and other Boston neighborhoods. Today, the Southwest Corridor Park that runs through the Stony Brook neighborhood stands as a testament to…

  • Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour: Green Street

    First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain 633 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

    Laid out in 1836, the street played a key role in Jamaica Plain’s development, functioning as a residential, commercial, and transportation conduit in the lives of the district’s residents. Although Green Street was subdivided as early as 1851 for stores, factories and houses, it was not extensively developed until the late 1870s with construction continuing until the early 1900s. The Bowditch School was completed in 1892, and early in the 20th century the United States…

  • Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour: Woodbourne

    Bethel AME Church 38 Walk Hill Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

    This neighborhood developed from 19th-century summer estates into a model suburban enclave. It contains examples representative of New England architecture with designs by local architects and builders. It also contains an unusual garden city model housing development by the Boston Dwelling House Company which was founded in 1912. Leaves from Bethel AME church steps, corner of Walk Hill and Wachusett Sts. Click here to see photographs for the Woodbourne tour.

  • Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour: Jamaica Pond

    Once a district that only included the houses of Boston’s elite, the Pond later was put to industrial use as tons of ice were harvested there each winter. Learn about the movers and shakers such as Francis Parkman and James Michael Curley who made their homes on the Pond’s shores. Discover how the Pond was transformed from private estates and warehouses into the parkland we know today. Leaves from the Bandstand, Pond St. and Jamaicaway.…

  • Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour: Monument Square

    Loring Greenough House 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

    Explore the heart of JP on a tour that includes a National Historic District. You will view architecture that spans three centuries, the oldest community theater company in the United States, and an elegant eighteenth-century mansion that once served as the country's first military hospital. Additionally, the tour includes a house that once served as a tavern, the Eliot School, the home of the first woman to graduate from MIT, and the First Church Burial…

  • Jamaica Plain Historical Society: Sumner Hill

    Loring Greenough House 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

    Developed as a suburb by General William Hyslop Sumner in the mid-nineteenth century, this National Historic District includes one of the finest collections of Victorian houses in the area. The tour includes the ancestral home of the Dole Pineapple Company founder as well as the homes of progressives who were active as abolitionists and women suffragists. Leaves from Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St.  Click here to see photographs for the Sumner Hill tour.

  • Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour: Hyde Square

    Brendan Behan Pub 378 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

    Learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New England Conservatory of Music…

  • Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour:

    MBTA Stony Brook Station Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

    Explore a fascinating industrial area at the geographic heart of Boston that includes 19th-century tannery and brewery buildings, the homes of early German settlers, and today’s Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams. In the 1970s, a coalition of community groups joined together to block construction of the Southwest Expressway through Jamaica Plain and other Boston neighborhoods. Today, the Southwest Corridor Park that runs through the Stony Brook neighborhood stands as a testament to…

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