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• Comment: Is there enough content about her to justify a separate article? It is currently a redirect to Peabody Mason Concerts where you could add the minimal details there are about her. Theroadislong (talk) 16:39, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Fanny Mason and Fanny P. Mason should link here

Fanny Peabody Mason (November 18, 1864-1948) was an heiress who became a patron of music who lived in Boston and Walpole, Massachusetts.^[1] She established a series of free public concerts known as the Peabody Mason Concerts.^[2]

George and Fanny Peabody (1840-1895) were her grandparents.^[3][4] William Powell Mason Jr. was her father (son of William Powell Mason and Hannah Rogers Mason) and Fanny Peabody Mason her mother.^[5]

She lived at her family home at 211 Commonwealth. She associated with French artist Alice Thevin (1862-1937)
after her after her father’s death.^[6] The Fanny Peabody Mason Music Building at Harvard University was finished in 1914.^[7][8]

Her only sibling, a brother, drowned while away at school in 1881. The family owned Boggy Meadows farm in Walpole and she bought a historic property there in 1901. She attended private schools and studied piano. She was a descendant of U.S. senator Jonathon Mason.^[9]