Isabel Weld Perkins was born in Boston Massachusetts on March 29th, 1876 to a prominent Boston family. Isabel's grandfather, William Fletcher Weld had built a successful shipping fleet of Clipper Ships known as the Black Horse Flag fleet.
The Larz Anderson Auto Museum grew out of a Sunday tradition by wealthy socialites Larz and Isabel Anderson in their Brookline Massachusetts home. The Anderson would open the doors to their spectacular carriage house on Sunday afternoons and share the marvel of a mounting collection of antique American and European vehicles.
Larz and Isabel Anderson began their love affair with the automobile before the turn of the century. In 1899, soon after they married, they purchased an 1899 Winton Runabout, a true horseless carriage.