New England Museum of Natural History
- Architect
- William G. Preston
- Year
- 1863
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The New England Museum of Natural History was built in 1863 to designs by architect William G. Preston in the Romanesque Revival style, serving as a civic home for the region's natural history collections in downtown Boston.
the style
Its Romanesque Revival design gave the natural history museum a masonry-heavy, round-arched civic presence typical of the style's mid-nineteenth-century American use.
More on Romanesque Revivalsignificance
The building's role as home to the New England Museum of Natural History gives it a notable place in Boston's civic and institutional history.
nearby
- Church of the Covenant
- Berkeley Building
- 500 Boylston Street
- Trinity Church
- Trinity Rectory
- Arlington Street Church