Back in Time

My friend Juli and I went to a really awesome Victorian house museum. It was beautiful! The house is officially called The Gibson House. The Gibson family had this house built in the 1850s. It was in a new area of Boston, the Back Bay, which for a bit was where all the city's raw waste sat for a bit. But it got filled in and homes for the rich were built there. And even though it used to be a big toilet, the rich wanted to move there so they could be close to their friends and family.

The house itself really shows how people at that time lived. There is the public part of the house

the fancy dining room with all the pretty china

the living room, where the party would go after dinner

I liked all the baubles hanging off the chandelier, all the lights were originally gas lights

This was a study...or library...

And then there's the private side of the house, the part that I actually liked the most. We entered at the main floor, with all the glitz and glamor, but it really felt like a home and I could see people living there when we went downstairs and saw the kitchen. There was a dumbwaiter! Too bad it didn't work. I want a house with a food elevator...that'd be so cool.

A pretty stove used to feed the family

Cool bell system used to alert the servants of the family's needs. It reminded me of Disney's Cinderella, when the sisters keep calling her, "Cindereeeellllla!!"

This was Mrs. Gibson's bedroom. I liked how light the room was, and I loved the furniture, made to look like bamboo. All things Asia were really popular back then.

Me in the mirror

Oh, and I saved the best for last. A fancy Victorian dog palace and a video of me attempting to get the view of us going up the gorgeous staircase...I get good shots of the wallpaper, which was fancy and gold and made in China...or Japan...

the photo is really dark cuz flash photography wasn't allowed around the old fabrics...and I tried to lighten it up...but you get the idea...