Indeed, Gardner, who created a museum, and Drexel, who founded a university, could in turn be considered the face and conscience of the Gilded Age. These two American women remain compelling ...

After Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband died in 1898, the art enthusiast carried out their plan to buy land in Boston's Fenway area and open a museum to display her impressive collection of ...

Today, however, she is remembered as the founder of the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Fenway Court. Mrs. Jack lived in the height of society on the water side of Beacon Street which was ...