Horticultural Hall (Boston)

Horticultural Hall, at the corner of Huntington Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, was built in 1901. It sits across the street from Symphony Hall. Since 1992, it has been owned by the Christian Science Church. It is the current home to the The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library of the Museum of Fine Arts as well as to offices of Boston Magazine and Small Army, and to a performance space of the New England Conservatory of Music.

The building was the third "Horticultural Hall" built for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. It was designed in the English Renaissance revival style in 1901 by architects Wheelwright and Haven on land purchased by the Society. (This firm also designed the whimsical Harvard Lampoon Castle in Cambridge, Massachusetts.)

When the Hall was dedicated in 1901, thousands of members and visitors attended its ten-day opening, during which time the hall was filled with amaryllises, azaleas, Pelargonium geraniums, gloxinias, jasmine, trumpet lilies, palms, rhododendrons, wisteria, and a collection of 1,000 orchids, the finest collection gathered in America to that time.