Nichols House Museum

The Nichols House Museum is a museum at 55 Mount Vernon Street on in Boston, Massachusetts. The house in which it is located was designed by the architect Charles Bulfinch, and built by Jonathan Mason, the politician, in 1804.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: building in Massachusetts, United States
  • Address: MA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Massachusetts State House and African Meeting House.

Government building
The , also known as the Massachusetts Statehouse or the New State House, is the state capitol and seat of government for the , located in the neighborhood of . is situated 620 feet east of Nichols House Museum.

Historic building
Photo: Swampyank, Public domain.
The , also known variously as First African Baptist Church, First Independent Baptist Church and the Belknap Street Church, was built in 1806 and is now the oldest black church edifice still standing in the . is situated 550 feet north of Nichols House Museum.

Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a teaching hospital located in the neighborhood of , Massachusetts. It is the original and largest clinical education and research facility of /Harvard University, and houses the world's largest hospital-based research program with an annual research budget of more than $1.2 billion in 2021. is situated 1,700 feet northwest of Nichols House Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beacon Hill and Downtown Boston.

Suburb
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.

Downtown is really the heart of the city. Boston City Hall is here, and many powerful companies and agencies are headquartered in the area. Since urban planning was done here before the advent of the automobile, this area of town has secured a decidedly European flavor.

Suburb
The is a neighborhood of , , United States, bounded generally by Cambridge Street to the south, the to the west and northwest, North Washington Street on the north and northeast, and New Sudbury Street on the east.

Nichols House Museum

Latitude
42.35851° or 42° 21′ 31″ north
Longitude
-71.06599° or 71° 3′ 58″ west
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
Open location code
87JC9W5M+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 367781411
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
4945350
Wiki­data ID
Q7026564
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In Other Languages

“Nichols House Museum” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: 尼古斯故居博物館
  • Chinese: 尼古斯故居博物馆

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