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Article: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Showcases Americana.
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- National Mortgage News
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- October 3, 2007
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The Gardner Museum is a unique piece of Americana that follows into this country's best tradition of democratizing art and culture. At the same time it is an art lover's treasure in its own right. Situated in a Boston townhouse, it resembles old European buildings with closed gardens and arched windows. It reminds visitors of museums like the Cloisters in New York with its quadrangles enclosed by a roofed passageway, characteristic of medieval cloisters in southern France.
The museum's founder, Isabella Stewart Gardner, was a collector and philanthropist. She also was a pioneer in making world art accessible to her less fortunate fellow Americans. Isabella Stewart ...