Isabella Stewart Gardner

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"Whom was Mrs. Jack?" Uncle Hector asked me.
"Mrs. Jack", I said, "Was the nickname of Isabella Stewart Gardner, an unusual and lovely woman?"
After her husband's death, Mrs. Gardner assembled a priceless collection of paintings, statues, and other work of art.
I said, " We can see these next June at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusettes."
My teacher told we students, Mrs. Gardner opened her museum to the public on January 1, 1903."
Ms. Gavriel said, "The art treasures and the building are unique Hector."
Mrs. Gardner loved Italian art. Fenway court her museum look like a Venetian palace. Because of a statement in her will nothing in museum can be changed or move
"I have heard many stories about Isabella Stewart Gardner,"

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