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). He attended private schools in Boston; then St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and finally the School of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but never graduated. 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.