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The Gryphon House is a Boston bed and breakfast offering eight finely appointed suites. It is conveniently located between Boston University and Boston's Back Bay, renowned for its exceptional architecture, exciting shops, fine art galleries, and expanses of greenery. This makes an ideal location for an urban bed and breakfast.
French wallpaper by Zuber dominates the entrance, lobby and second floor hallway. This particular motif was originally designed in 1848 by three different artists. It's called "El Dorado" and depicts four continents, Africa, Asia, America, and Europe. It was block-printed using 1554 carved-wood blocks and came in 24 panels. The Zuber Wallpaper Company is over 200 years old, and this beautiful wallpaper can still be special ordered even today. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum featured "El Dorado" in an exhibit in late summer 1997.
Area Attractions... - Boston Harbor Island
- The Prudential Center
- Faneuil Hall Marketplace
- Newbury Street
- CambridgeSide Galleria
- Numerous Golf Courses
- Professional Sports
- Museum of Fine Arts
- Boston Public Library
- Computer Museum
- The New England Aquarium
- Museum of Science
- Peabody Museum
- Boston Garden/Fleet Center
- Harvard University
- M.I.T.
- Boston University
- Emerson College - Boston
- Emmanuel College
- Tufts University
- Boston College
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The Gryphon House is considered by the Landmarks Commission to be an example of Richardson Romanesque, a style popularized by Boston architect H.H. Richardson whose best-known landmark is the Trinity Church in Copley Square. Our house was designed by the architect Samuel D. Kelley, and built by the firm of Chadwick, Stillings in 1895. It was originally a single-family home, but was converted to accommodate three families and a doctor's office in 1950. In 1968 it changed once more to five apartment units, one of which was occupied by Thomas and Ruth McDonald, the owners of the property. It was purchased from their estate by Hatfield and Morway Builders in December 1996, and became The Gryphon House.