Tag: Isabella Stewart Gardner

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum photographed back in the olden time when it was called Fenway Court and Mrs. Gardner lived up stairs. Mostly images of her apartment up on the third floor it looks like. Images from Digital Commonwealth.

Boston Fenway Court courtyard with numerous potted palms. 1903 image. American. Thomas E. Marr, photographer. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library. In the public domain. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:668303438
Mrs. Gardner’s parlor ? Boston Fenway Court. 1903 image. American. Thomas E. Marr and Son, photographers. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library. In the public domain. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:66830331g
Dining room. Boston Fenway Court. 1916 image. American. Thomas E. Marr and Son, photographers. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library. In the public domain. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:668303331
Tapestry room with a real tiger skin draped over the sofa and a leopard? one on the floor. Boston Fenway Court. 1915 image. American. Thomas E. Marr and Son, photographers. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library. In the public domain. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:w0895102k

Chinese Cloister. Boston Fenway Court. 1915 image. American. Thomas E. Marr and Son, photographers. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library. In the public domain. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:9c680b499
Chinese room. Boston Fenway Court. 1903 image. American. Thomas E. Marr and Son, photographers. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library. In the public domain. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:668303730
Little Salon. Boston Fenway Court. 1915 image. American. Thomas E. Marr and Son, photographers. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library. In the public domain. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:668304337
Boston Fenway Court. Stone steps in court. 1903 image. American. Thomas E. Marr and Son, photographers. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library. In the public domain. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:66830371f