The Beacon Hill Times covers news & goings on for the neighborhood of Beacon Hill. The paper is published weekly and comes out on Tuesdays. It's distributed for free via doorstep delivery & on newsstands. The paper is published by the Callery Press, which also owns The Back Bay Sun.

Full service hair salon specializing in cuts and color. Reasonable prices for a downtown salon. Friendly staff and offers manicures and pedicures as well.

Museum President Jim Campano calls the West End “the greatest neighborhood this side of heaven.” The museum catalogues the West End’s history from the 1880s to the 1950s, ending with a failed urban renewal project displacing thousands of poor immigrants. The museum features photographs and paintings of the old neighborhood, a video about the area’s development and informational plaques. Campano said the museum serves as a place where the remaining West Enders could gather and reminisce about a piece of Boston’s urban history. The city and developers profited off the ruined lives of displaces residents, he said.

The Otis House is the perfect example of Boston Brahmin living in the days after the Revolution. This house, now a preserved museum, was one of the first homes completed by celebrated Boston architect, Charles Bullfinch. Bullfinch was also responsible for several other federal style mansions in Beacon Hill as well as the Massachusetts State House. The Otis House is also Historic New England's headquarters and has a variety of historical information on this period in time. A Boston jewel sure to be enjoyed by a Boston history buff!

The Beacon Hill Civic Association was created in 1922 by a concerned group of Beacon Hill neighbors striving to keep Beacon Hill looking and functioning as perfect as a postcard. And that dedication continues today as the BHCA is an all volunteer organization that care about making sure that Beacon Hill stays safe, historic, and beautiful for the past, present, and future residents to come. The BHCA is also a fund raising organization and spearheads many neighborhood activites and events. The main focus of the BHCA is to fight for it's residents and to keep Beacon Hill the best neighborhood in Boston!

Beacon Hill Nursery School has been educating toddlers on the Hill for the past 53 years with great facilities, teachers, and staff. Accepts students from 2 years of age- kindergarten. One of the oldest, poshest, and most widely respected nursery schools for your tot in the city.

Harvard Gardens is many things. For one, it is a local Beacon Hill haunt. During the day, a place where nearby MGH folk enjoy lunch. On the weekends, there is a brunch crowd. Dinner is served here featuring upscale comfort food and American favorites such a delectable pastas and delicate salads. However, the real Harvard Gardens is mostly known for it's great bar scene appreciated mostly by Beacon Hillers. Crammed into the long and narrow bar you will find a plethora of preppily clad 20 and 30 somethings looking for fun and someone fun. The bar is crowded, but the drinks are not that expensive. There is something here for everyone, just remember that unless you get there really early thursday - saturday- it is standing room only! Homemade desserts like a Guinness float or a sinful "chocolate lovers" platter for two are worth a visit alone. With its location across t he street from MGH, the bar enjoys one of the highest ratios of doctors and nurses of any establishment in the city.

Allow yourself to be captivated with the Liberty Hotel (pardon the pun). This stately hotel was once the infamous Charles Street Jail that was a Boston institution for the criminally challenged from 1851-1990. With an amazing multi-million dollar renovation and utilizing the architecture of the original jail, you will now find the Liberty Hotel full of fashionable bars aptly named Clink and Alibi as well as Scampo, the new project of world renowned chef Lydia Shire. The lobby is gorgeous and decadent, and the rooms sumptuous, what more could you ask for from the Liberty? Free yourself from the other hotel chains and check out the new competition in town.

The BHP is an institution. Named "Boston's best dive bar" several years in a row, this is a must go to hole in the wall. During the day, the bar boasts an eclectic group of city folk that love to drink and hang out in a dark and musty bar. But at night, you will find the BHP crowded with recent college grads to mid-late 20 somethings looking for cheap drinks (they are here to be found) and a good time. Most crowded on the weekends post 10:30, the BHP, although dirty and crowded, gets into you and leave you coming back for more! Beers: $2-4 and mixed drinks $3-$5. CASH ONLY! Yes, they use plastic pints and cups, the floor can be sticky, and the bathrooms are highly questionable (Guys, there isn't a stall so hold your number two if you gotta go) but its one of the best dive bars in Boston and if you're looking for the snobby "Seen and Be Seen" place, the BHP isn't it. Its a true Boston bar with one goal in mind: gettin' drunk and having a story to tell later on.