Historic house filled with treasures of the China Trade era
Captain Robert Bennet Forbes, John Murray Forbes and their sisters built this home atop Milton Hill for their mother, in honor of their brother Thomas who was killed in a typhoon in China. Designed by Boston architect, Isaiah Rogers, in 1833 the Forbes House is the earliest house in Milton to have been built from an architect’s plans. It is one of only two examples of Rogers’s early domestic work which still survives today and one of only a few examples of Greek Revival domestic architecture open to the public in the New England region. The house is furnished with original furniture, art, and objects from the Forbes family and filled with a collection of American, European, and China Trade heirlooms which are arranged to suggest their former daily use.
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