Winter Street (Boston)
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| caption = Winter Street, Boston, {{circa|1860s}} (photo by John B. Heywood)
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Winter Street in Boston, Massachusetts, is located between Tremont Street and Washington Street, near the Common. It is currently a pedestrian zone.{{cite web |author=City of Boston |title=Street Book |url=http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/streetbook/ }} Prior to 1708, it was called Blott's Lane and then Bannister's Lane..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.Thomas Wait Tucker. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vF5AAAAAYAAJ Bannisters Lane, 1708-1899]: being sundry remarks, some historical and all new and interesting, on Bannisters Lane now named Winter Street and the district immediately thereabout. Boston: Shepard, Norwell & Co., 1899 It was also known at times as "Winer Street". {{cite web |title=Burgiss's Map (1728) |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3764b.ct003495/ }}, reprinted by Shurtleff, Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, 3d Edition, 1891, at p.92
See also
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- M.M. Ballou, publisher
- Deloss Barnum, photographer
- Central Church{{cite journal |journal=Gleasons Pictorial |location=Boston, Mass. |url=https://archive.org/stream/gleasonspictoria0506glea#page/n33/mode/1up |title=Central Church |date=1853 |volume=5}}
- Walter Lofthouse Dean, 3 Winter Street, painter"Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Volumes 1–3", by Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Draper & Folsom, publishers
- Fadettes of Boston
- Gilchrist's store
- A.N. Hardy, photographer
- Josiah Leavitt
- New England Emigrant Aid Company
- Polyanthos
- Henry and John Christian Rauschner, portraitists
- Schoenhof & Moeller
- S.R. Urbino, foreign books
References
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Image gallery
File:1743 BostonCommon map WilliamPrice.png|Detail of 1743 map of Boston, showing Winter St. and vicinity
File:1767 Grayham WinterSt BostonNewsLetter 10April.png|Ann Grayham, importer & retailer, 1767
File:1768 Greenleaf WinterSt BostonEveningPost June6.png|"Very neat green and blue umbrilloes, to be sold exceeding low, by Oliver Greenleaf," 1768 (Boston Evening-Post)
File:CentralCongregational WinterSt Boston HomansSketches1851.jpg|Central Congregational Church, {{circa|1851}}
File:The Atlantic Monthly, published November 1857.jpg|Atlantic Monthly, no.1, 1857; published by Phillips, Sampson & Co., 13 Winter St.
File:Lyon Parasols WinterSt BostonDirectory 1861.png|Joseph Lyon's "umbrellas, parasols, canes, etc.," 1861
File:1870 Crape Lace WinterSt Boston.png|New England Crape and Lace Refinishing Co., {{circa|1870}}
File:2010 WinterSt Boston.jpg|Winter Street, Boston, March 2010
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