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  • Thursday, April 24, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Masquerade

    The Gibson House Museum invites you to Masquerade, a Victorian Masquerade Party and Cocktail Reception to benefit the Gibson House Museum. The event takes place Thursday, April 24 at The Chilton Club, 152 Commonwealth Avenue.

    Raffle tickets are a great way to support the museum and maybe win some cool prizes.  Tickets are available on our website and at the party. You don’t need to be present to win! 

    To see our raffle items and to purchase tickets to the event, please visit our Benefit page:

    https://www.thegibsonhouse.org/museum-benefit

  • Saturday, February 22, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm – Elements of the American Wedding, 1860 – 1920

    Join Etiquetteer, Robert B. Dimmick, on February 22 at The Gibson House in Boston on an exploration of wedding customs in the United States from the Civil War to Prohibition. Aside from familiar customs like the white wedding dress and tossing the bouquet, Etiquetteer will look at fads like the floral bell, how wedding breakfasts were conducted, and the home wedding. Two of the most celebrated weddings of this period included President Cleveland’s White House wedding to Frances Folsom and Consuelo Vanderbilt’s wedding in New York to the Duke of Marlborough. Etiquetteer will also share the stories of Gibson family weddings, especially those of sisters Mary Ethel (held in Nahant) and Rosamond, held in the Music Room of the Gibson House six months after the death of her father.  Reception with light refreshments begins at 4:30 p.m.; talk begins at 5:00 p.m. Space is limited!
    Register

  • Tuesday, February 27, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Elements of the American Wedding, 1860 – 1920

    Join Etiquetteer Robert B. Dimmick for an exploration of wedding customs in the United States from the Civil War to Prohibition. Aside from familiar customs like the white wedding dress and tossing the bouquet, Etiquetteer will look at fads like the floral bell, wedding breakfast, and home wedding. Two of the most celebrated weddings of this period include President Cleveland’s White House wedding to Frances Folsom and that of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough in New York. Stories of Gibson family weddings will also be shared, especially those of sisters Mary Ethel, in Nahant, and Rosamond, held in the Gibson House Music Room six months after her father’s death. This program will be presented live from the Music Room of the Gibson House.

    Light refreshments will be served. The program takes place February 27 at 6 pm at The Gibson House, 137 Beacon Street in Boston. $15 Gibson House members, $20 nonmembers. Register HERE

  • Tuesday, January 16, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Eastern – Health & Medicine in 19th Century Boston: Medicine for Women, Medicine by Women, The Founding of Boston’s Vincent Memorial Hospital

    Join The Gibson House Museum for a three-part virtual lecture series investigating the fascinating world of 19th-century health care and its connections to the Gibson family. From hospitals run by and created for women, to medical collections and knowledge, to mental health and addiction, the Gibson family’s story is a window into how Bostonians experienced health care over the course of the century. Bonus: Each ticket comes with a 25% discount code for an “At Home with the Gibsons” tour! The first lecture will take place on January 16 from 6 – 7 pm. In 1891, Vincent Memorial Hospital was founded to care for working-class women; the early medical staff was comprised exclusively of women doctors. The Vincent Club was founded shortly thereafter, in part by the women of the Gibson family, in order to support the work of the hospital. Join Vincent Memorial Hospital Foundation historian William Baker, Jr. and the Gibson House’s Sarah Hagglund to explore this fascinating time in Boston’s medical history and the various roles women had in creating, staffing, and supporting women’s health care. $10. Register HERE

  • Tuesday, November 16, 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – A Cultivated Friendship, Online

    Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 7:00-8:15 p.m : A Cultivated Friendship: Based on letters between Edith Wharton & Louis Bromfield, created and performed by John Dennis Anderson and Karen Vuranch, will be available to watch online.
    $12/ $10 Gibson House members; via Zoom.

    What topic would bind two Pulitzer-Prize-winning authors—American expatriates in France in the 1930s—of different generations and different social circles in a close friendship? Gardening. “A Cultivated Friendship” is a performance of selected letters of Edith Wharton (Karen Vuranch) and Louis Bromfield (John Dennis Anderson), edited and published by Daniel Bratton in Yrs, Ever Affly: The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield. Wharton and Bromfield’s mutual passion for gardens created a deep friendship, further enhanced by their shared profession of writing and shared frustration at the business of writing.  This 50-minute Zoom performance will be followed by a Q&A with the actors.

    Register HERE.

  • Tuesday, December 15, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Victorian Holiday Customs Webinar

    No one celebrated Christmas quite like the Victorians. The  festivities began with Thanksgiving and extended through New Year’s Day (and sometimes Twelfth Night). The Gibson House continues to embrace many customs the Victorians popularized–like the Christmas tree–although others, like the once-traditional gift of an orange, have fallen by the wayside.

    Etiquetteer Robert B. Dimmick delves into the food, gifts, entertaining, and superstitions involved in Victorian celebrations.

    This December 15 online event on Victorian Holiday Customs at 6 pm will take place via Zoom. Please be sure to download and acquaint yourself with the platform prior to the program. Access information will be sent to those who register. Registration is required and will close 15 minutes prior to the event. Tickets: $10. Register Here!

  • Monday, June 12, 6:00 pm – A Description of the New York Central Park

    Monday, June 12, 6:00 pm – A Description of the New York Central Park

    A Description of the New York Central Park by Clarence C. Cook, issued in 1869, is recognized as the most important book about the park to appear during its early years. This work has been republished with a new Introduction by Maureen Meister that reveals the roles of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the creation of the book, which served in part to champion their vision for a major public park–a park that would become a model for the nation. For more information, see https://nyupress.org/books/9781479877461/

    Maureen will speak at The Gibson House Museum on Monday, June 12, with a reception at 6 and talk beginning at 6:30. $10 for Gibson House members, $12 for nonmembers. Please pre-register at info@thegibsonhouse.org or 617-267-6338.

    Maureen Meister is an art historian who has taught for many years at Boston-area universities including Tufts, Lesley, and Northeastern. She is the author of Arts and Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England and Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston: Harvard’s H. Langford Warren and is the editor of H. H. Richardson: The Architect, His Peers, and Their Era.

  • Wednesday, April 1, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The Nineteenth Annual Gibson House Benefit

    The Nineteenth Annual Gibson House Museum Benefit will take place Wednesday, April 1, from 6 – 8 at the Chilton Club in Boston.  This elegant and fun affair helps support the mission of preserving and sharing the Gibson House as a unique time capsule of Back Bay Life.  This year the benefit will honor author Anthony Mitchell Sammarco.  To purchase tickets on line, or for more information, visit www.thegibsonhouse.org.

  • Wednesday, December 3, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Repeal Day Anniversary Celebration

    Join friends and members of the Gibson House Museum for a benefit cocktail reception to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition (December 5, 1933). Etiquetteer Robert B. Dimmick will offer a few deft words about the manners during Prohibition. Special guest Stephanie Schorow, author of Drinking Boston: A History of the City and its Spirits, will also attend.

    Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC) will be serving Charlie’s Beacon, a cocktail specially designed in honor of the Gibson House and its founder, Charles Hammond Gibson, Jr.  Ryan and Wood Distillery of Gloucester is graciously sponsoring Repeal Day with its world-class Knockabout Gin. Period attire is encouraged.
    Sponsors will receive a personally autographed copy of Ms. Schorow’s book.  Please respond by November 28. Gibson House Museum is located at 137 Beacon Street, Boston.  Ticket price $125 for Patrons, $200 for Sponsors, and reservations are required; rsvp info@thegibsonhouse.org or 617.267.6338. Gibson martini image from www.magnoliadays.com.

  • Saturday, May 17, 12:00 pm, 1:30 pm, and 3:30 pm – Boston House Museum Alliance Tours: Servant Life in Downtown Boston

    The Boston House Museum Alliance announces its spring 2014 tour series, Servant Life in Downtown Boston.  For these special tours on Saturday, May 17 (12, 1, and 3:30 pm), Otis House, Gibson House Museum, and Nichols House Museum draw on their rich collections and stories to illuminate the history of domestic service over three centuries.  The Otis House tour focuses on the countless hours it took servants to prepare for an elegant entertainment and attend to the day-to-day operations of a large household.  The tour includes a visit to the third floor, a space not currently open to the public.  Tickets ($5 per person) are sold separately at each site.  Presented by Historic New England, The Gibson House Museum, and The Nichols House Museum.  For more information contact Melinda Huff at otishouse@historicnewengland.org or call 617-994-5920.

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