Isabella Stewart Gardner

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Nine unbelievable Boston facts

Christmas ban Everyone knows that Boston has a bedtime, but did you know that Boston also banned Christmas? That's right — the Pilgrims banned Christmas for over two decades in the 17th century, punishing those who celebrated the holiday.

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Toasting what was and what is yet to come at Gardner Museum

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?" Isabella Stewart Gardner welcomed guests to her 15th-century-inspired Venetian styled palace for the first time on New Year's Eve 1903. Sipping champagne and eating donuts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra played while friends roamed the galleries of

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A legacy of longing, a gift of beauty

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, also known as Fenway Court, is a calling card of sorts. It reminds residents and guests from around the world of its former owner's vivacious presence in more courteous times. The exuberant Isabella began collecting the works now housed in the museum on

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With Boston heist suspects dead, FBI focuses on finding art

Written by Rodrique Ngowi and William J. Kole BOSTON (AP) — With the two men suspected of robbing a museum of $500 million worth of artwork in 1990 now dead, investigators say they are focused on one thing — finding the missing masterpieces.

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FBI: Suspects in 1990 art heist from Boston’s Gardner Museum are dead

Written by Rodrique Ngowi and William J. Kole BOSTON (AP) — With the two men suspected of robbing a museum of $500 million worth of artwork in 1990 now dead, investigators say they are focused on one thing – finding the missing masterpieces.