Fiona G.
7/26/2019
The guided tour of Otis House really worked for me; when I took it I felt as if I'd been transported back to the time when this was the Otis family's Boston home. Our tour group was comprised...
Otis House
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141 Cambridge St
Boston, MA 02114
Historic house museum, open seasonally from April-November. One of 37 properties owned and operated by Historic New England. Otis House is the last surviving mansion in Bowdoin Square in Boston’s West End neighborhood. Charles Bulfinch designed the house for Harrison Gray Otis, a lawyer who was instrumental in developing nearby Beacon Hill, served in Congress, and was a mayor of Boston. It is the first of three houses Bulfinch designed for Otis and his wife, Sally Foster Otis. The house reflects the classical proportions and delicate detail of the Federal style. Take a tour of Otis House to learn about the family’s life in the Federal era and the later history of the house, when it served as a clinic and a middle-class boarding house. The restoration of Otis House and its brilliantly colored wallpapers, carpeting, and high-style furnishings is based on meticulous historical and scientific research. Otis House is a National Historic Landmark.
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Linda P.
6/4/2017
We happened upon this site after a walk up Beacon Hill. The tour was full but we were allowed to go into the archives room where they had an interesting display of "ephemera" about Boston. The...
Jason K.
6/9/2010
My wife and I had the Boston Go card and the Otis house was on the card so we took a trip to Beacon Hill and entered the house of the third mayor of Boston. My wife and I love to take historical...
R V.
3/6/2010
Certainly not the best house museum around, but surprisingly good. The Otis House was the first home acquired for preservation by the group now called Historic New England; its preservation dates...
Cassandra T.
6/4/2013
I really appreciated how much I learned on this tour. Being new to Boston, I was riding my roommate's bicycle and stumbled upon the Otis House. The tour begins with a small presentation about...
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