Katharine Gibbs founded her first business school for women in Providence, Rhode Island, and opened a Boston branch on Huntington Avenue six years later. Mrs. Gibbs, a marketing genius, simply changed the focus of her advertising to women. The school moved around Back Bay with addresses on Huntington Avenue, Berkeley Street, Marlborough Street, Commonwealth Avenue, Dartmouth Street, Arlington Street and Beacon Street before it ceased to be a residential school and moved to Newbury Street where it became Gibbs College. Gibbs College closed in 2011.
