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Nichols House Review
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Nichols House
- Address: 55 Mt. Vernon St., Beacon Hill, Boston, MA | Map It
- Phone: 617/227-6993
- www.nicholshousemuseum.org
- Category: Houses/Mansions
- Location: Beacon Hill and Boston Common
Fodor's Review:
The only Mt. Vernon Street home open to the public, the Nichols House was built in 1804 and attributed to Charles Bulfinch. It became the lifelong home of Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1960), Beacon Hill eccentric, philanthropist, peace advocate, and one of the first female landscape designers. Although the Victorian furnishings passed to Miss Nichols by descent, she added a number of colonial-style pieces to the mix, such as an American Empire rosewood sideboard and a bonnet-top Chippendale highboy. The result is a delightful mélange of styles. Nichols made arrangements in her will for the house to become a museum, and knowledgeable volunteers from the neighborhood have been playing host since then. To see the house, you must take a tour (included in the price of admission).
- Cost: $7
- Open: May-Oct., Tues.-Sat. noon-4; Nov.-Apr., Thurs.-Sat. noon-4. Tours on the 1/2 hr; last tour starts at 4
- Metro: Park St.
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