Charles Hammond Gibson Jr.

Charles Hammond Gibson Jr. (1874 – November 17, 1954) was an American author from a wealthy Bostonian family who created the Gibson House Museum to preserve his family mansion as a Victorian time-box.

Biography Charles Hammond Gibson was born in 1874 the son of Charles Hammond Gibson Sr (1836–1916), and Rosamond Warren (1846–1934). He had two sisters, Mary Ethel (1873–1938, married Freeman Allen) and Rosamond (1878–1953, married Charles Gibson Winslow).

After school, he travelled to Europe and became the secretary of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, assisting him in the preparation of the Jackson–Harmsworth Polar Exposition of 1894. Gibson was also famous for his rose gardens that he created at Forty Steps, the family's summer home in Nahant, Massachusetts. Gibson died on November 17, 1954, and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Between 1847 and 1849 Edward Clarke Cabot designed what is now the Gibson House Museum for Catherine Hammond Gibson and her son Charles Hammond Gibson. Three generations of the Gibson family lived there before Charles Hammond Gibson Jr. ensured the house would be preserved "as is" a time-box of the Victorian era. It opened 3 years after his death.

Legacy The Wounded Eros - Remembering Charles Hammond Gibson. Jr. (1874-1954) is a short movie by Todd Gernes.