Today on my way home from campus, I walked down a small quiet street I went past this house. Apparently I live about 500 meters from the birthplace of America’s 35th President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The house is like most houses in the neighborhood a three-story wooden house with a front porch. It looks like all other houses on the street but has an American flag in the front yard and a sign revealing who lived there.

The parents Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald moved into the house in 1914, three years before John F. Kennedy was born in 1917. The family lived in the house until 1920 where they moved just two blocks away. In 1927 they left Boston to move to New York.