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Gibson House
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Front of the Gibson House Museum on Beacon Street
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| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Built: | 1859-60[1] |
| NRHP Reference#: | 01001048 |
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| Added to NRHP: | August 07, 2001[2] |
| Designated NHL: | August 7, 2001[3] |
The Gibson House Museum is a historic house museum located at 137 Beacon Street in the Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. It preserves the 1860 building occupied by three generations of the Gibson family.
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The widowed Catherine Hammond Gibson purchased the newly filled in land for $3, 696 in 1859 in order to move away from Beacon Hill.[4] Edward Clarke Cabot designed the building which was finished by 1860 in the Italian Renaissance style with an exterior of brownstone and red brick.[1] She passed it on to her son Charles Hammond Gibson.
After Charles Hammond Gibson, Jr., Catherine Hammond Gibson's grandson died in 1954, the house became a museum in 1957, and in 2001 was declared a National Historic Landmark. The Gibson House's landmark status is due to its claim that it is the only Victorian era row house in Boston's Back Bay to maintain the integral relationship between the exterior architectural shell and the original interior plan, with its accompanying decorative schemes.[5] Its interior is a composite of family furnishings and pieces added to make it more complete.[6]
The museum is not well known and runs on a $100,000 yearly budget.[4]
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