Gibson House Museum
About Gibson House Museum
The Gibson House Museum is a historic house museum located at 137 Beacon Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It preserves the 1860 Victorian rowhouse occupied by three generations of the Gibson family. The house was one of the first to be built in Back Bay, and has an unparalleled state of preservation that includes wallpaper, textiles, furnishings, and family artifacts and collections. Both the public and service areas of the house exhibit a high degree of preservation, and are viewable on tours. The property was designated a Boston Landmark in 1992 by the Boston Landmarks Commission and a National Historic Landmark in 2001.
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01MassachusettsAdam Lenhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
02Boston, MA - front facadeDaderot · Public domain
03WTB Gibson House MuseumCryptic C62 · CC BY-SA 3.0
04Gibson House Marker 29JanAdam Lenhardt Cg-realms at en.wikipedia · Public domain
05Boston, MAElisa.rolle · CC BY-SA 4.0
06Atlas of the city of Boston - city proper - plateNorman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL · CC BY 2.0
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Nearby museums
Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within a mile of Gibson House Museum; the closest, Museum of the First Corps of Cadets, is about a mile away.
