National Register of Historic Places

Gardner, Isabella Stewart, Museum

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Listed
January 27, 1983
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
83000603

About this property

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose will called for her art collection to be permanently exhibited "for the education and enjoyment of the public forever." The museum opened in 1903. An auxiliary wing designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, adjacent to the original structure near the Back Bay Fens, was completed in 2012. In 1990, thirteen of the museum's works were stolen; the crime remains unsolved, and the works, valued at an estimated $500 million, have not been recovered.

Location

280 The Fenway
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
42.33822, -71.09923

Categories

ARTARCHITECTURESOCIAL HISTORY
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Gardner, Isabella Stewart, Museum listed on the National Register?

Gardner, Isabella Stewart, Museum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 1983.

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Gardner, Isabella Stewart, Museum is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Gardner, Isabella Stewart, Museum is recorded as the industrial era.

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