Best of Downtown & Financial District

The full route

1. 1
   King’s Chapel Burying GroundStart · Building / Landmark

   Boston’s oldest burying ground (1630) — John Winthrop lies here, alongside Mary Chilton, the first woman ashore from the Mayflower..

2. 2
   Old City Hall1 min walk walk · Building / Landmark

   French Second Empire wedding cake (1865) on School Street — the site of the first Boston Latin schoolhouse, marked by Franklin’s statue and a sidewalk mosaic..

3. 3
   Old Corner Bookstore1 min walk walk · Building / Landmark

   The 1718 brick survivor where Ticknor & Fields published Hawthorne, Longfellow, Thoreau and the Atlantic — the closest thing American literature has to a birthplace storefront..

4. 4
   Custom House Tower5 min walk walk · Building / Landmark

   Boston’s first skyscraper — a 496-foot campanile (1915) stacked by the federal government on a 1847 Greek Revival base, flouting the city’s height limit because Washington didn’t have to ask..

5. 5
   Boston Opera House12 min walk walk · Building / Landmark

   A 1928 movie cathedral restored to gilded glory in 2004 — now home of the Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker and the big touring productions..