Eliot st
JAMAICA PLAIN, UNITED STATES

Monument Square, Jamaica Plain

Explore the heart of JP on a tour that includes a National Historic District. 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. Learn about the monument that commemorates fallen Civil War soldiers from West Roxbury and about Pauline Agassiz Shaw who established the class that became the model for free, public kindergarten education. We will visit a house dating to 1716 that once served as a tavern, the Eliot School dating back to 1689, the home of the first woman to graduate from MIT and the First Church Burial Ground. 

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12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States
Monument Square, Jamaica Plain
  1. Introduction
  2. Loring Greenough House
  3. The Monument
  4. Dudley Stone
  5. Still Sculpture
  6. Pauline Agassiz Shaw Kindergarten plaque
  7. Brewer Street Houses
  8. 1 Dane Street/Greek Revival Glory
  9. 32 Eliot Street/Ellen Swallow Richards
  10. The Eliot School
  11. First Church Burying Ground
  12. Footlight Club (Eliot Hall)
  13. First Church in Jamaica Plain
  14. Conclusion