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Main Menu > Boston > Also Nearby Brookline This Excursion Comes From ... National Geographic Guide to America's Historic Places For more National Geographic travel guides—from Europe to Antarctica and everywhere in between—visit National Geographic Books >> (3 miles [4.8 kilometers] W via Beacon St. and Harvard Ave.) This upscale residential community encompasses the John F. Kennedy National Historic Site (83 Beals St. +1 617 566 7937. Early May–mid-Oct. Wed.-Sun.; Adm. fee), a comfortable but unspectacular frame house where budding financier Joseph P. Kennedy moved his young family in 1914. Three years later his second son, John, was born here. Rooms are furnished as they were in JFK’s early boyhood. Also in Brookline, the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (99 Warren St. +1 617 566 1689. Fri.-Sun.) honors America’s greatest landscape architect. Olmsted lived and worked here from 1883 to 1903, the last 20 years of his life. Exhibits include his offices, working drawings, and plans and photographs of his famous commissions. More Recommendations for Boston