Soon after they married, Larz and Isabel Anderson purchased an 1899 Winton Phaeton Runabout, a true horseless carriage, and through 1948, the New Englanders acquired at least 32 additional more cars and carriages. As the cars became obsolete, the couple didn’t sell them but retired the vehicles to the Carriage House. By 1927, the couple had opened it for tours of their “ancient” vehicles –– the beginning of today’s “America’s Oldest Car Collection” in the original Anderson Carriage House on the grounds of the Weld Estate, now Larz Anderson Park, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Fourteen of these original 32 vehicles remain in the collection today to enjoy. Since 1927, the Carriage House has also hosted lawn events and other automotive activities and continues to schedule 25 car shows every year.

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