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.
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  • Email: info@thegibsonhouse.org
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: historic house in Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Gibson House”
  • Address: 137 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Boston Public Garden and First Church in Boston.

Park
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The Public Garden, also known as , is a large park in the of , , adjacent to . It is a part of the system of parks and is bounded by and Boston Common to the east, Beacon Street and to the north, Arlington Street and to the west, and Boylston Street to the south.

Place of worship
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is a Unitarian Universalist Church founded in 1630 by John Winthrop's original Puritan settlement in Boston, Massachusetts. The current building, located in the neighborhood, was designed by Paul Rudolph in a modernist style after a fire in 1968. is situated 430 feet southwest of Gibson House Museum.

Bridge
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The is a wheelchair accessible footbridge named after Arthur Fiedler. It crosses Storrow Drive in the and neighborhoods of , , United States. is situated 480 feet north of Gibson House Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Back Bay-Beacon Hill and Back Bay.

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Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of 's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.

Suburb
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Historical heavyweights, and Beacon Hill are some of 's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.

Suburb
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Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and are some of 's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.

Gibson House Museum

Latitude
42.35474° or 42° 21′ 17″ north
Longitude
-71.07412° or 71° 4′ 27″ west
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
Operator
Gibson Society, Inc.
Open location code
87JC9W3G+V9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 367780089
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
4937732
Wiki­data ID
Q5559351
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