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Download Our Visitor Guide City of Presidents Massachusetts VISITOR GUIDE DiscoverQuincy.com WELCOME TO QUINCY Just minutes from downtown Boston via the MBTA, boat or car, the City of Quincy is truly the birthplace of our great American story. Founding fathers John and John Quincy Adams, John Hancock and many others called Quincy home, and they shaped their ideas—ideas that would eventually Thomas P. Koch, Mayor change the world—right here. The Adams National Historical Park and the United First Parish Church, where the 2nd and 6th United States Presidents and their First Ladies rest, are national historic treasures virtually unmatched in their authenticity. But Quincy City Hall our history is just part of the story. With twenty-seven miles of coastline and 1305 Hancock Street beaches, acres of beautiful protected parks, the most interesting and diverse Quincy, MA 02169 dining scene outside of Boston, rock climbing and hiking at the Blue Hills 617-376-1000 Reservation, world-class golf courses and so much more; there’s much to love QuincyMa.gov when you Discover Quincy! Welcome to Quincy! Sincerely, Thomas P. Koch, Mayor Cover Photo: View of Quincy City Hall during the Grand Opening of the Hancock Adams Common. Visitor Guide Photography: Lisa Aimola, Liz Feitelberg and Discover Quincy VISITOR RESOURCES The Visitor Guide is produced by Discover Quincy in partnership with the City of Quincy, Quincy Chamber of Commerce, Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism. For additional copies of this guide, advertising and information, please contact Discover Quincy. Discover Quincy Greater Boston Convention Adams National Historical Park 617-639-1117 | 800-581-4014 & Visitors Bureau Visitor Center [email protected] 888-SEE-BOSTON (888-733-2678) 1250 Hancock Street, DiscoverQuincy.com BostonUSA.com Quincy, MA 02169 617-773-1175 | nps.gov/adam EMERGENCY INFORMATION POLICE, FIRE, AMBULANCE Dial 911 Massachusetts Office QUINCY POLICE NON-EMERGENCY 617-479-1212 of Travel & Tourism The Quincy Chamber of Commerce 800-227-MASS (6277) STEWARD SATELLITE EMERGENCY 617-471-1700 MassVacation.com FACILITY – QUINCY [email protected] 114 Whitwell Street, Quincy Center TheQuincyChamber.com 617-376-5533 Funded, in part, by the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism 3 ATTRACTIONS Heart of Quincy Tour FREE TOURS DAILY | SEASONAL Church of the Presidents Quincy City Hall Hancock Cemetery Hancock Adams Common Experience Quincy’s National Treasures! ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK Visitor Center | 1250 Hancock Street 617-770-1175 | nps.gov/adam A walk through Quincy Center takes you on a voyage Historic Houses and Visitor Center open mid-May to mid-November, 9am-5pm daily. through time from the earliest colonial days, to the Visitor Center stays open off season, Tuesday through Friday, 10am-4pm. era of the Adams, Quincy, and Hancock families, and Begin your Adams experience at the park Visitor Center and view the new park movie, to Quincy’s decades as the national center of granite Enduring Legacy: Four Generations of the Adams Family. Access to the three historic houses and quarrying and building. Adams and Hancock Streets Stone Library is by conducted tour only and available on a first-come, first-served basis. in Quincy Center are part of one of the oldest roads A trolley transports you on your full park tour, and returns you to the Visitor Center in about in America. A path cut by Native Americans untold 2 ½ hours. Free validated parking is offered in the adjacent Presidents Place Parking Garage centuries ago, it became, in earliest colonial times, the accessed via Saville Avenue. road from Boston to Plymouth and remained in John Adams’ time the main road south of Boston. Enjoy the Hancock Adams Common, opened in the fall of 2018, now connects Quincy City Hall, First Church of Presidents and Hancock Cemetery with handsome granite elements, heroic bronze statues of John Hancock and John Adams, and is complimented by comtemplative and robust water features. JOHN ADAMS & JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PEACE FIELD – THE SUMMER WHITE BIRTHPLACES HOUSE 133 Franklin Street 135 Adams Street John Adams was born in the salt box house The residence of four generations of the located only 75 feet away from the birthplace Adams family from 1788 to 1927, it was of his son John Quincy Adams. Young John home to Presidents John Adams and John and his bride Abigail started their family, the Quincy Adams; First Ladies Abigail and future President launched his career in law Louisa Catherine Adams. Stroll the grounds FREE TOURS DAILY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10am-4pm and politics, and it was here that he, Samuel which include an 18th-century style formal Begin your tour inside City Hall. Tours do not operate on holidays. Adams and James Bowdoin wrote the Mas- garden, historic orchard, Stone Library sachusetts Constitution. This document, still (1870) and Carriage House (1873). Quincy City Hall PARKING OPTIONS in use today, greatly influenced the develop- 1305 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA 02169 ROSS LOT or ment of the United States Constitution. QuincyMA.gov 617-376-1990 PRESIDENTS’ PLACE GARAGE The Church of Presidents has it’s own visitation program in place and accepts donations. 4 5 ATTRACTIONS ATTRACTIONS HANCOCK ADAMS COMMON ADAMS CRYPT UNITED FIRST PARISH CHURCH QUINCY HISTORY MUSEUM 1305 Hancock Street 1306 Hancock Street | 617-773-0062 | ufpc.org 8 Adams Street | 617-773-1144 | QuincyHistory.org THOMAS CRANE PUBLIC LIBRARY 40 Washington Street | 617-376-1301 Open April 19-Nov. 11. M-F: 11-4, Sat/Sun: 12-4. Open Mon-Fri, 9 am – 4 pm. Saturdays, ThomasCraneLibrary.org Opened in the fall of 2018, Hancock Adams mid-April–October, noon – 3 pm. Known as the “Church of the Presidents,” Common now connects Quincy City Hall, this historic church was built from Quincy The Adams Academy, built of Quincy Built in 1881 by noted architect Henry Hobson the “Church of Presidents” and Hancock granite in 1828 with funds provided by John granite, is an early and important example Richardson, who also designed Boston’s famed Cemetery with handsome granite elements, Adams. Tours of the church include a visit of Gothic revival architecture in America. Trinity Church, the Thomas Crane Public heroic bronze statues of John Hancock to the Adams Family Crypt, the final resting Endowed by John Adams as a preparatory Library’s original building is a masterpiece of and John Adams, and is complimented by place of Presidents John Adams and John school for boys, it was built on the site where 19th century Romanesque architecture. Its or- comtemplative and robust water features. Quincy Adams, and First Ladies Abigail and the legendary patriot John Hancock was nate woodwork and LaFarge stained glass win- Louisa Catherine Adams and the Presidential born. Now home to the Quincy Historical dows are truly works of art. Since the library Pew of John Quincy Adams. Society whose museum showcases the city’s opened in 1882, several additions have been history from Native American times up constructed, including a multimillion-dollar through the early 21st century. addition in 2001 that combines the architec- tural spirit of the original Richardson building with the technological capabilities of a 21st century library. CITY HALL HANCOCK CEMETERY 1305 Hancock Street 1307 Hancock Street Built in 1844, old City Hall is one of the Scan this code to get connected to a Google walking tour map of the Hancock Cemetery. oldest functioning seats of government in DOROTHY QUINCY HOMESTEAD JOSIAH QUINCY HOUSE the country. Its academic Greek Revival From 1630 to 1854, Quincy’s most illustri- 34 Butler Road | 617-742-3190 | Open limited Sat. 20 Muirhead Street | 617-994-5930 architecture has been described as one of nscda.org HistoricNewEngland.org ous residents and civic leaders were buried Open 1st & 3rd Sat., Jun-Oct the outstanding examples of mid-century here; Henry Adams, the first Adams to live The earliest surviving home of the Quincy classical American design. Unusual in both in Quincy and ancestor of John Adams; family, this house was built in 1686 by This country estate overlooking Quincy Bay its monumentality and in the severity of Colonel John Quincy, for whom the city is Edmund Quincy and greatly expanded and transports visitors to the Revolutionary War its granite detail, these features may be named; patriot Josiah Quincy, Veterans of remodeled in 1706 displaying the evolution era and tells the story of a woman’s work to attributed to its architect Solomon Willard, the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the of colonial architecture. The childhood home preserve her family’s history more than a hun- who was instrumental in the development Civil War. The memorials offer a chronicle of Dorothy Quincy, who became Mrs. John dred years later. Revolutionary leader Josiah of the granite industry in Quincy. Historic of gravestone art from colonial winged skulls Hancock, the house welcomed Benjamin Quincy built the house in 1770. Quincy and preservation work has recently been and cherubim, to Federalist classical motifs, Franklin as a guest and had frequent visits his family played key roles in the social and completed and visitors are welcome to tour to Quincy’s 19th century role as the national from young lawyer John Adams. political life of Massachusetts for generations, the Great Hall and historic exhibit. center for granite quarrying and carving. producing three mayors of Boston and a president of Harvard. 6 7 ATTRACTIONS ATTRACTIONS SOUTHER TIDE MILL U.S. NAVAL SHIPBUILDING MUSEUM HOUGHS NECK MARITIME CENTER WOLLASTON BEACH 622 Southern Artery 137 Bay View Ave Quincy Shores Reservation SoutherTideMill.com QUINCY BUILT U.S.S SALEM 551 South Street, Pier 3 | 617-479-7900 Quincy Shore Drive | WollastonBeach.org uss-salem.org | Open seasonal weekends One of only five remaining grist mills in the This public boat ramp and landing is well Quincy’s largest beach offers 2.5 miles of United States, historic preservation work Quincy’s proud shipbuilding history comes positioned for the recreational boater for clean sand, swimming, lifeguards, free is currently underway.
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