Otis House Museum

The Otis House Museum, located on Beacon Hill in Boston, is a historic house museum that was built in 1796. It was designed by the renowned architect Charles Bulfinch for Harrison Gray Otis, a prominent lawyer, U.S. Congressman, and mayor of Boston. The house is the last surviving mansion in Bowdoin Square and reflects the classical proportions and delicate detail of the Federal style.

The museum offers tours that provide insights into the life of the Otis family during the Federal era and the later history of the house, which also served as a clinic and a middle-class boarding house. The restoration of the house, including its brilliantly colored wallpapers, carpeting, and high-style furnishings, is based on meticulous historical and scientific research.