Complete information about visiting the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site is now on National Park Planner!
The John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site preserves the Kennedy Family’s Beals Street house in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is here that the 35th president of the United States was born in 1917 and lived until he was three years old. The house is open for Ranger- and self-guided tours from mid-May though the end of October on Wednesdays through Sundays. Visitors can also take a 1.6-mile walking tour of the Brookline neighborhood to see the house on Abbottsford Road that the Kennedys moved into after the Beals Street house became too small, as well as the school and church that John attended as a young boy. Park Rangers also lead a daily tour to the Abbottsford house, and only to the house, so you must walk the rest of the neighborhood tour on your own. (The Abbottsford house in now privately owned and not open to the public.)
KENNEDY’S BEALS STREET HOUSE TOUR
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Last updated on March 31, 2026
