Architectural Tours at Shirley Place with Executive Director, Suzy Buchanan.

Architectural tours of Shirley Place are special subject discussions of the style, history, materials and typically unseen features of the house the William Shirley built here in Roxbury in 1747.

In this specialized 90-minute tour we’ll explore the building’s unsolved mysteries, discuss the layers of meaning behind the Palladian idiom Shirley strove for as well, and sift through the layers of old and new fabric in the house.