Virtual Tours

Take a virtual tour from anywhere in the world! The online resources on this page are also great places to learn more after your in-person tour, to explore young Jack’s community on your own, and to use in classrooms.

Audio Tours

Find Mrs. Kennedy's audio tour and sites related to Jack's boyhood in Brookline in the NPS App! The free NPS App is available for iOS and Android mobile devices in the App Store and Google Play.

Several virtual tours are hosted by STQRY. These tours are best viewed using a smartphone but can also be accessed from a computer or tablet. STQRY tour options include:

• "Young Jack Kennedy": a tour designed for youth, narrated from the perspective of the boy who later became president
• a house tour from the President's mother, Rose Kennedy
• a house tour by a Park Ranger
• house tours in Spanish, German, Japanese, and French
• a tour of the Brookline neighborhood where the President grew up

 

There on the stove you see the bean pot. We always ate Boston baked beans on Saturday night. Warmed over for Sunday morning breakfast they were perfectly delicious with brown bread. Everyone had their special recipe for Boston baked beans and piccalilli which was usually served with them.

—Mrs. Rose Kennedy, audio tour of John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

Image credit: NPS Photo / Joel Veak

 

Video Tours

Watch virtual tours with rangers about John F. Kennedy's early life and family history in Massachusetts. Check out the site’s Operating Hours & Seasons for information on the seasonal offerings of these tours in person.

 

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  Growing up Kennedy: John F. Kennedy's Brookline

  What was it like to grow up as a Kennedy in Brookline? Ranger Jason takes you through the Kennedy's Brookline neighborhood.

  Duration:

  27 minutes, 17 seconds

 

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  The Enduring Qualities: An Exploration of the Origins of the Fitzgerald and Kennedy Families in Boston

  Ranger Jon visit sites of identity, faith, and community in downtown Boston and the North End and consider questions of transition, permanence, and belonging: How did the Irish and Irish American experience inform their sense of selves? What role did religion and the power of American democracy have in shaping their character? How did the Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds view the communities that made up the city of Boston? How were they shaped by their communities and how was the city transformed by them?

  Duration:

  55 minutes, 49 seconds