Group Pass and Personalized Tour Columbus Chapel and Boal Mansion Museum
Item Number: 122
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $120
Online Close: Dec 12, 2012 10:00 PM EST
Bid History: 0 bids
Description
The museum offers a free group tour for up to twelve people scheduled at a mutually convenient time.
Special Instructions
The Boal Estate has been the Boal family home for eight generations and over 200 years and tells the story of America as seen through one family. It has the original furnishings.
The fourth generation, Colonel Theodore Davis Boal, called Terry, went to Europe in the 1890's and married Mathilde, a descendent of Christopher Columbus, who inherited the Columbus Chapel and brought it to Boalsburg in 1909.
The tour consists of:
The museum was featured on page C-20 of the October 6 Wall Street Journal. A copy of that article is on the museum website at
The fourth generation, Colonel Theodore Davis Boal, called Terry, went to Europe in the 1890's and married Mathilde, a descendent of Christopher Columbus, who inherited the Columbus Chapel and brought it to Boalsburg in 1909.
The tour consists of:
- the Boal Mansion, home of eight generations of the Boal family for over 200 years with the original furnishings
- the Columbus Chapel, a centuries-old chapel of the Columbus family imported from Spain in 1909 containing the Admiral's Desk of Christopher Columbus, fine European art and two pieces of the True Cross of Jesus.
- three exhibit rooms with tools, centuries-old weapons and an 1850 stage coach.
The museum was featured on page C-20 of the October 6 Wall Street Journal. A copy of that article is on the museum website at
Attached photo is from the annual Columbus Day Ball fundraiser.
Donated by
The Boal Museum