On May 29, 1917, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy gave birth to her second son, future president John F. Kennedy, in an upstairs bedroom of her family home at 83 Beals Street, Brookline, MA.
After John F. Kennedy’s 1960 election as president, his birthplace house became a site of commemoration. This wayside panel discusses the house as a site of memory and memorial.
The Kennedy's dining table is set with the fine china and silver that Rose Kennedy received as a wedding present. Joe Jr. and John have places set with silver dishes at the children's table by the window.
The smaller front bedroom at the Kennedys' home is exhibited as a guest bedroom, as it was used in 1917. Later it was used for children as the Kennedy family grew.
The living room was probably the first room that you would have been brought to when visiting the family. Although the clues may be subtle, the room is furnished with signs of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy’s wealth, education, and culture.
This is the bedroom of Rose and Joseph Kennedy in their Brookline home In this room, John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in the bed closest to the window.
St. Aidan's was Brookline's third Catholic Parish. During the Kennedy family's residence in Brookline, St. Aidan's was an integral part of their daily life.
St. Mary’s of the Assumption Church was the first Catholic Church in Brookline. Today, the Church holds JFK’s Baptismal font, which the Catholic Archdiocese moved from St. Aidan’s Church.
