Start at the visitor's center and decide which tour package you wish to take. All tours are given by Park Service guides. The oldest part of the house includes a southwestern parlor called the Paneled Room, a hallway and a dining room. On the southeast corner of the first floor is the Long Hall and Long Room, added in 1800 during John's presidency to provide extra space to entertain guests.The Long Room is furnished with Louis XV pieces collected on John and John Quincy's diplomatic missions to Europe.
Proceed along the north side of the house through the butler's pantry, to the northwest service wing with its kitchen and laundry. The kitchen includes a twentieth-century gas stove, nineteenth-century wood-burning stove and an eighteenth-century oven. Go up the back stairs past the bedroom for visiting maids and museum room, Brooks' bedroom and on to the house's master bedroom, known as the President's room, located over the Paneled Room.
Continue east past a guest room and on to the study, where John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The room is furnished with terrestrial and celestial globes and a desk used by both John and John Quincy.
Go outside and explore the grounds, which include the Stone Library, built by Charles Francis Adams, the carriage house and stables, woodshed, greenhouse and gardens, which include a rosebush planted in 1788.
