Tremont Row
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Tremont Row (1830s-1920s) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a short street that flourished in the 19th and early-20th centuries. It was located near the intersection of Court, Tremont, and Cambridge streets, in today's Government Center area.Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MOpIAAAAMAAJ A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston]. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910 It existed until the 1920s, when it became known as Scollay Square."Tremont Row now Scollay Sq.: eleventh name in its history." Boston Globe, Feb. 20, 1926 In 1859 the Barre Gazette newspaper described Tremont Row as "the great Dry Goods Street of Boston."Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), May 27, 1859
Tenants
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Anthony Feola Photographer
- Thomas Gold Appleton
- Austin and Stone's Dime Museum
- Thomas Ball, sculptor"Portrait of Gov. Briggs." Daily Atlas, Feb. 3, 1844
- Hammatt Billings, architect
- Boston Artists' Association
- Comstock & RossAmerican Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
- Cutting & Turner, photographersFarmer's Cabinet (Amherst NH), Aug. 5, 1857
- John J.P. Davis, daguerreotype artist
- Dobson & Schumann, photographersThe Boston Directory, 1895, page 420
- R.A. Dobson, photographerThe Boston Directory, 1897, page 449
- John Doggett & Co.Boston Directory, 1840
- Thomas Edwards (artist)
- Marguerite F. Foley, "cameo cutter"The Crayon, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr., 1858)
- E.J. Foss, photographer
- Miss Addie M. Gendron, photographer
- Frederick Gleason, publisher
- Mr. Gray, portrait artistDaily Atlas, April 24, 1843
- Harris & Stanwood, silverSalem Gazette, March 16, 1841
- Haven, Pierce & Co., shoes
- Josiah Johnson Hawes, photographer
- Heard & Moseley [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98501210/]
- John B. Heywood
- Albert Gallatin Hoit
- Charles Hubbard (artist)
- William Hudson Jr., artistDaily Atlas, Jan. 1, 1845
- F.A. Jones & Co. "Great Silk and Shawl House"Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), Nov. 18, 1853
- Joseph Leonard, auctioneer; Leonard & Cunningham
- Leonard & Pierce"The paintings in Tremont Row." Daily Atlas, June 2, 1852
- G.H. Loomis, photographer
- Mayer's Confectionary"Chinese Azalia." Boston Daily Atlas, April 23, 1844
- Mechanic Apprentices Library Association
- Naismith Photographer
- New England Art Union
- William H. Oakes [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001701509/]
- Alfred Ordway
- Pavilion Hotel{{cite web |url= http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/english/poebostonexhibit/poeslife/43.html |title= The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston, an exhibition at the Boston Public Library, December 17, 2009 - March 31, 2010 |date= 2009 |access-date=2 April 2012}}
- George P. Reed, publisher [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001701551/]
- Scollay Theatre
- Sharp & Michelin lithographers [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001701514/]
- Southworth & Hawes, photographers
- I.A. Wetherbee
- Merrill G. Wheelock
- Moses Wight, artist
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Images
Image:1838 TremontRow TemontSt map Tallis Boston BPLM8774.png|Detail of map of Boston in 1838, showing Tremont Row.
Image:1848 Tuttle 31 Tremont Row BostonDirectory.png|Advertisement for Tuttle & Oakes boots and shoes, 1848
Image:1848 Southworth Hawes BostonDirectory.png|Advertisement for Southworth & Hawes, daguerreotypists, 1848
Image:BrattleSt ca1860 TremontRow BostonianSociety.png|Brattle Street, looking up towards Tremont Row, c. 1860s (Bostonian Society)
Image:1868 Hunt advert 3 Tremont Row Boston.png|Advertisement for J.S. Hunt & Co. detective office, 1868
Image:1916 TheatreComique TremontRow Boston.png|Theatre Comique, Tremont Row, Boston, c. 1916
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |title=Boston Register and Business Directory |publisher=Sampson & Murdock Co. |year=1914 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn4fl3?urlappend=%3Bseq=433 |chapter=Tremont Row |hdl=2027/hvd.hn4fl3?urlappend=%3Bseq=433 |via=HathiTrust }}
- {{cite book |title=Boston Register and Business Directory |publisher=Sampson & Murdock |year=1918 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3fACAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA734 |chapter=Tremont Row |via=Google Books }}
- {{cite book |title=Boston Register and Business Directory |publisher=Sampson & Murdock Co. |year=1921 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=oH4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA487 |chapter=Tremont Row }}
External links
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- Bostonian Society. Photos:
- J.J. Hawes. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120425162922/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/001104.jpg 57-1/2 Tremont Row at Scollay Square, c. 1865]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202649/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/001125.jpg 24-28 Tremont Row at Scollay Square, c. 1880-95]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200855/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/004294.jpg 3-7 Tremont Row, c. 1908-1912]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191731/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/003895.jpg Tremont Row, 1912]
- [https://archive.today/20130414130553/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/001577.jpg Tremont Row, Scollay Square, c. 1960]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190659/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/001101.jpg Theatre Comique at 14 Tremont Row, 1916]
- Library of Congress:
- [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b07398 Sheet music published by Oakes & Swan, 8-1/2 Tremont Row, ca1840]
- [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b08874 Sheet music lithographed by Sharp & Michelin, 17 Tremont Row, ca1840]
- [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a41359 Sheet music published by Geo. P. Reed, 17 Tremont Row c1843]
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