Court Street (est. July 4, 1788) is located in the

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. Prior to 1788, it was called Prison Lane (1634–1708) and then Queen Street (1708–1788). In the 19th century it extended beyond its current length, to Bowdoin Square. In the 1960s most of Court Street was demolished to make way for the construction of Government Center. The remaining street extends a few blocks, near the Old State House on

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Tenants of Court Street

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;Former tenants * ''

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'' * Annin & Smith, 19th-century engravers * ''

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Boston Gaol (Massachusetts) The Boston Gaol (1635–1822) was a jail in the center of Boston, Massachusetts, located off Court Street, in the block bounded by School, Washington and Tremont Streets. It was rebuilt several times on the same site, before finally moving to the ...

, 1635–1822 * Concert Hall (Boston, Massachusetts) * S.H. Gregory & Co., wallpaper, 1840s–1870s * Elias Howe Company * ''

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Charles H. Keith Charles H. Keith was an American sheet music, music publisher in Boston, Massachusetts in the 19th century. His business was located on Court Street (Boston, Massachusetts), Court Street from the 1840s to the 1850s. Among the songs published by hi ...

, music & umbrellas, 1840s–1850s *

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, publishers * ''

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* S.S. Pierce, grocer, 19th century * Henry Prentiss, music & umbrellas, 1830s–1850s *

New-England Museum (Boston) The New England Museum (1818 – c. 1838) in Boston, Massachusetts, was established at 76 Court Street by Ethan A. Greenwood, Peter B. Bazin, John Dwight and Samuel Jackson. It featured displays of fine art, natural history specimens, wax fi ...

* N.S. Simpkins' bookshop, 1820s *

William Tudor William Tudor (March 28, 1750 – July 8, 1819) was a wealthy lawyer and leading citizen of Boston, Massachusetts. His eldest son William Tudor (1779–1830) became a leading literary figure in Boston. Another son, Frederic Tudor, founded the ...

* Young's Hotel (Boston)

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File:1814 CourtSt area Boston map Hales.png, Detail of 1814 map of Boston, showing Court St. extending to Bowdoin Square File:CourtHouse CourtSt Bowen PictureOfBoston 1838.jpg, Court House, c. 1838 (engraving by

Abel Bowen __NOTOC__ Abel Bowen (1790-1850) was an engraver, publisher, and author in early 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Bowen was born in New York in 1790. Arriving in Boston in 1812, he worked as a printer for the Columbian Museum, at t ...

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Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion ''Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion'' was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851–1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. The publication name was changed to ''Ballou's ...

) File:Interior view of the Oriental Tea Co's store by Getchell cropped.jpg, Oriental Tea Co., 85, 87, 89 Court St. (photo by William H. Getchell) File:MadameWalsh millinery CourtSt Boston.png, Madame Walsh, millinery, Court St., 19th century File:Scollay's building, Court St., Boston, Mass, by Soule, John P., 1827-1904.jpg, Scollay's building, Court St., 19th century (stereograph by John P. Soule) File:CourtSt Boston BPL 08 02 003371.jpg, c. 1880s

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