Another must-see museum is the Sandwich Glass Museum, which offers hands-on glass-blowing demonstrations to illustrate the technique and centuries-old glass-making history in Boston and Sandwich.

Essex Village is the postcard-perfect center with its Main Street and harbor views. This is where you’ll find the highest concentration of historic homes, shops, and restaurants, all within easy ...

For water views without crowds, locals head to Bushy Hill Nature Center, where trails lead to quiet Connecticut River ...

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

To the right off the main hallway is the 180-square-foot dining room with large windows on two exterior walls and a hardwood ...

The Boston suburb, with a population of 62,822 ... And the best place to live in America? Colonial Village, a neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, earned the top spot, according to Niche.com.

This decade-long construction project, like the Big Dig, isn’t just about transportation. It would open up roughly 100 acres ...

Beacon Hill, lined in Federal-era rowhouses, gas lanterns and brick sidewalks, commands some of the city’s highest prices ...

NORWELL — Two of the town's oldest homes continue to be privately owned while remaining tangible links to early Colonial ...

THREE’S A CROWD — Tom O’Brien, a prominent Boston-based developer ... with reputations as trailblazers and disrupters, from colonial spiritual leader Anne Hutchinson to astronaut and ...

Thomas N. O’Brien, one of Boston’s most prominent real estate developers, is expected to announce next week that he will challenge Mayor Michelle Wu in this fall’s mayoral election ...