Not every park in the United States national park system is as large as the grand canyon. This unassuming house outside of Boston is the original Kennedy compound and in this house future president Kennedy was born. The house takes less than a half hour to tour. And in another half hour for the film that they show about Kennedy and you can easily add a visit to this park to a day in Boston.

John F. Kennedy NHS preserves the birthplace of America’s 35th president. In 1967, the president’s mother returned here, where Kennedy spent his boyhood, and restored the house to her recollection of its 1917 appearance. Each year, thousands of visitors join NPS staff to share Mrs. Kennedy’s memories in a tour of the house and neighborhood that, in her words, hold “many happy memories.”