William Gibbons Preston was an American architect who practiced during the last third of the nineteenth century and in the first decade of the twentieth. Educated at Harvard University and the École d
"Bungalow at Monument Beach, Massachusetts" (1879) from the March 27, 1880 edition of American Architect and Building News
Images of the exterior and main hall of the Rogers Building, 1864, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (The Walker Building is in the background in the upper view.)
Charles M. Russell house, 1890
The Boston Society of Natural History in Boston, Massachusetts, was an organization dedicated to the study and promotion of natural history. It published a scholarly journal and established a museum.
William G. Preston
…Rogers Building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1864, demolished 1939) 491 Boylston Street, Boston MA., with his father Jonathan Preston New England Museum of Natural History (1865, with Jonathan Preston, extant) 234 Berkeley Street, Boston – after a fifteen-month restoration in 2013 now RH Boston. Charles Edward Cook house…
New England Museum of Natural History, corner of Boylston and Berkeley Streets, Back Bay, Boston, 19th century
Building of the Provident Inst. for Savings, Tremont St., Boston, built in 1833. Offices on the third floor were occupied by the Boston Society of Natural History, 1833–1847.
Natural History Museum, corner of Boylston Street and Berkeley Street, Back Bay, Boston, c. 1864
Former museum building, 234 Berkeley Street, Boston, 2009