Forget the nursing homes, and leave the bingo boards at home. Elderly people don’t want them.

Beacon Hill, the city's oldest historic district, gets a lot of attention for its picture-book charm: narrow streets lined by pre-revolutionary homes, red-brick sidewalks and thousands of lamps ...

There are 2,800 gas lights in the City of Boston. Beacon Hill has most of them, with well over a thousand of the lampposts topped with the burning flames on its own.

BOSTON — Residents of the city's Beacon Hill neighborhood consider themselves a breed apart. ... Beacon Hill Village, scheduled to begin its membership drive this month, ...

Beacon Hill resident Roger Cox, 81, a retired engineer and sales executive, said he and his wife, Susan, 79, joined Beacon Hill Village not just for its services, but to make friends.

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Peer out the top floor of 34 Fayette St. — through the tall dormer windows of the building’s mansard roof — and you might think you were in Beacon Hill.Across the leafy Bay Village street is ...

2006-02-15 04:00:00 PDT Boston-- Alone in his row house on Beacon Hill, with four precipitous flights of stairs and icy cobblestones outside the front door, John Sears, 75, still managed to look ...

When Keeta Gilmore moved from Oklahoma into this five-level row house at 22 Garden St. on Beacon Hill some 14 years ago, she was literally settling into a piece of American history. Built just 50 ...

Beacon Hill is arguably Boston's most beautiful neighborhood. Located north of Boston Common, Beacon Hill is awash with quaint, cobblestone-lined alleyways, corners dotted with gas street lamps ...

For years, Carl Richardson has shuffled gingerly across the uneven sidewalks and poorly cut curbs of Beacon Hill, guided by a dog and the hope that a loose brick or an unexpected slope doesn’t ...

Seniors in Boston's Beacon Hill enjoy each other's company at a social organized by a nonprofit they created to help them remain in their homes longer into retirement. Photo by Gilberto Nobrega ...