Nichols House Museum

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The Nichols House Museum is a museum at 55 Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts. The house, built in 1804 in the Federal style, was designed by Charles Bulfinch and built by politician Jonathan Mason. It was renovated in 1830. It is named for Rose Standish Nichols (1872–1960), a landscape gardener, suffragist, pacifist, and member of the Cornish Art Colony, who lived there from 1885 to 1960. After her death she left the house to be used as a museum. The museum preserves the lifestyle of Boston’s upper class during Nichols’s lifetime, with turn-of-the-century rooms. The building is part of the Beacon Hill Historic District.