Kennedy Birthplace, 83 Beals Street
The president's mother furnished this house from memory, and a firebomb left evidence that disagreed.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
With no photographs of these rooms, the woman who had lived in them rebuilt them from memory. Rose Kennedy left number eighty-three in 1920. She bought it back forty-six years later, after her son's assassination, to restore it to the way it looked on May the twenty-ninth, 1917, the day he was born. She had a decorator, Robert Luddington, old family belongings, antiques, and what she could recall.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
83 Beals Street, Brookline. Seen from the street only for now: the National Park Service site is seasonally closed through late May 2027. Free 30-minute tours by appointment on Wednesdays and Fridays, booked at least two weeks ahead. It is a residential street.
Photos
Sources
- National Park Service, A history of 83 Beals Street
- National Park Service, FAQ
- National Park Service, Hours
- National Park Service, Guided tours
- National Park Service Historic Resource Study, John F. Kennedy's Birthplace: A Presidential Home in History and Memory
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