Historical Tours in and about Boston / Compliments of American Oil Company

by American Oil Company

From the Conservatory of Music, we cross Huntington Avenue once more and continue about one block south, reaching the

Boston Opera House

Located on the corner of Opera Place, which was formerly called St. Stephen’s, for years it has been used for the Metropolitan Opera singers, as well as local opera. Leaving the Opera House, we again turn right on Huntington Avenue and proceed to the

Museum of Fine Arts

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts occupies the unique position of being one of the few museums in the world created and supported solely by private citizens. The Museum is well equipped with guides who are commissioned to explain to the visitors any part of the collection about which one wishes to know. In this little book, we cannot begin to describe the contents of the Museum of Fine Arts, but we hope you will discover its beauties for yourself.

BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

After leaving the Museum of Fine Arts, we turn first to the left on Huntington Avenue, retracing our steps towards the Boston Opera House and then turn left on Forsythe Way to the Fenway, turning left again and walking to the south end of the Fenway where we find the

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.