The Nichols House Museum

The Nichols House Museum is open to the public as an historic house museum reflecting the domestic life of a typical family of Beacon Hill at the turn of the last century. The museum is part of the historical legacy of one of the most famous neighborhoods of America. Located at the heart of Beacon Hill, the Nichols House Museum receives visitors from many foreign countries and from all over the United States.

The House is furnished with priceless possessions accumulated over several generations and includes fine European and American wooden furniture from the 17th-19th centuries, ancestral portraits, Flemish tapestries, oriental rugs, European and Asian art, and works by America’s foremost sculptor of the 19th century, Augustus Saint Gaudens.