Nichols House Museum
- Architect
- Charles Bulfinch
- Year
- 1804
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Boston, MA
- Collections
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The Nichols House Museum occupies a Federal-style house at 55 Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill, designed in 1804 by Charles Bulfinch and built by the politician Jonathan Mason. It takes its name from Rose Standish Nichols (1872–1960), the landscape gardener, suffragist, and pacifist who lived here from 1885 until her death, and who left the house to become a museum preserving her world.
the building
Period rooms. The interior is arranged in turn-of-the-century period rooms that preserve the lifestyle of Boston's American upper class as Nichols and her family lived it, rather than restoring the house to its 1804 origins.
the style
The house was built in 1804 in the Federal style and later renovated in 1830.
More on Federalsignificance
Rose Standish Nichols left the house to be used as a museum after her death in 1960; it now preserves turn-of-the-century period rooms depicting the lifestyle of Boston's American upper class.
nearby
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