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Historical Tours in and about Boston: Compliments of American Oil Company
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Boston (Mass.) -- Guidebooks; Boston (Mass.) -- Tours
Located on the corner of Opera Place, which was formerly called St.
Stephen’s, for years it has been used for the Metropolitan Opera
singers, as well as local opera. Leaving the Opera House, we again turn
right on Huntington Avenue and proceed to the
Museum of Fine Arts
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts occupies the unique position of being one
of the few museums in the world created and supported solely by private
citizens. The Museum is well equipped with guides who are commissioned
to explain to the visitors any part of the collection about which one
wishes to know. In this little book, we cannot begin to describe the
contents of the Museum of Fine Arts, but we hope you will discover its
beauties for yourself.
[Illustration: BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS]
After leaving the Museum of Fine Arts, we turn first to the left on
Huntington Avenue, retracing our steps towards the Boston Opera House
and then turn left on Forsythe Way to the Fenway, turning left again and
walking to the south end of the Fenway where we find the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Here is a marble palace, once the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Lowell
Gardner, filled with rare treasures from all over the world. Catalogues
may be purchased at the door for a small sum which will enable you to go
through this beautiful museum which is open to the public on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., the charge of
admission being twenty-five cents. On Sundays, the Museum is open from 1
to 4 p. m., admission free. It is closed on all national holidays and
during the month of August.
Retracing our steps to Huntington Avenue and going to Ruggles Street, we
find ourselves surrounded by colleges and schools. At our left on the
corner of Ruggles Street and Huntington Avenue we find the Wentworth
Institute. On our right we see Simmons College for Women, south of
which, on the corner of Longwood Avenue, we find the Harvard Medical
School. To the west of Simmons College, we see Emmanuel College.
If you board a Huntington Avenue car going east you can transfer at Park
Street, and you will arrive back at your hotel regardless of what part
of the city it is in.
[Illustration: OLD TOWN HOUSE—MARBLEHEAD]
A DAY’S AUTO TRIP ON THE
_NORTH SHORE_
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