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.
OLD TOWN HOUSE—MARBLEHEAD
A DAY’S AUTO TRIP ON THE
NORTH SHORE
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Starting in front of the Hotel Statler, Providence Street side, get into your car and follow the island around to the left turning right at Arlington Street and again right at Boylston Street. The Boston Public Gardens will be on your left and after crossing Charles Street the Boston Common will be on the left. At the second stop light turn left at Tremont Street. Continue along Tremont Street, still passing the Common on the left, until we come to the Old Park Street Church, spoken of in one of our earlier chapters, the Granary Cemetery, the Parker House (made famous by Parker House rolls), opposite which is King’s Chapel and King’s Chapel burying ground. You come out at Scollay Square; cross in a straight line to Cornhill Street. Follow through to Washington Street, crossing Washington Street in a straight line for Faneuil Hall, commonly known as “The Cradle of Liberty.” Here turn left, turning right almost immediately, following the Sumner Tunnel sign on to North Street. Continue on North Street to the AMOCO Service Station, turning left and into the Tunnel which you go through to East Boston.
Leaving the Tunnel, turn right on Porter Street and go to Chelsea Street where you turn left following along to Bennington Street turning right on Bennington Street, proceed to Swift Street. Turn left and then right on to the Boulevard for Revere. The buildings seen over the top of the Mexican Petroleum tanks are the U. S. Marine Hospital buildings. Going along the Boulevard a short distance, you come to the