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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

http://www.isabellastewartgardner.org

"At first, she had wanted to turn the two houses she owned on Beacon Street into a museum. But her husband said, why not go to the out-skirts of town, buy a piece of land, and build a new building, with an apartment on top? And that is exactly what she did, after her husband died in 1898É. The Fenway at that time, at least this end of Olmsted new park, had no buildings at all. It was marshland that had just been filled in".

Rollin Hadley, Former Director