Tremont Row (1830s-1920s) in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the capital city, state capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financ ...
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, was a short street that flourished in the 19th and early-20th centuries. It was located near the intersection of
Court
A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to Adjudication, adjudicate legal disputes between Party (law), parties and carry out the administration of justice in Civil law (common law), civil, C ...
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Tremont, and Cambridge streets, in today's
Government Center area. It existed until the 1920s, when it became known as
Scollay Square
300px, Scollay Square, Boston, 19th century (after September 1880)
350px, Scollay Square, Decoration Day, 19th century (after September 1880)
Scollay Square (c. 1838–1962) was a vibrant city square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It was na ...
. In 1859 the ''Barre Gazette'' newspaper described Tremont Row as "the great Dry Goods Street of Boston."
Tenants
Anthony Feola Photographer
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Thomas Gold Appleton
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Austin and Stone's Dime Museum Austin and Stone's Dime Museum (ca.1880s-1900s) of Boston, Massachusetts, was an entertainment emporium in Scollay Square (no.4 Tremont Row), established by William Austin and Frank Stone. It featured a freak show as well as dancing girls for enter ...
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Thomas Ball, sculptor
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Hammatt Billings, architect
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Boston Artists' Association The Boston Artists' Association (1841–1851) was established in Boston, Massachusetts by Washington Allston, Henry Sargent, and other painters, sculptors, and architects, in order to organize exhibitions, a school, a workspace for members, and to p ...
* Comstock & Ross
[American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1]
* Cutting & Turner, photographers
* John J.P. Davis, daguerreotype artist
* Dobson & Schumann, photographers
* R.A. Dobson, photographer
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John Doggett & Co.
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Thomas Edwards (artist)
Thomas Edwards (1795–1869) was an artist in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in portraits. Born in London and trained at the Royal Academy,Boston Daily Advertiser, Oct. 17, 1820 he worked in Boston in the 1820s-1850s, and in Wo ...
* Marguerite F. Foley, "cameo cutter"
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E.J. Foss, photographer
* Miss Addie M. Gendron, photographer
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Frederick Gleason
Frederick Gleason (c.1817 – November 6, 1896) was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-nineteenth century. He is best known for establishing the popular illustrated weekly '' Gleason's Pictorial'', at the time an innovation in A ...
, publisher
* Mr. Gray, portrait artist
* Harris & Stanwood, silver
* Haven, Pierce & Co., shoes
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Josiah Johnson Hawes, photographer
* Heard & Mosele
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John B. Heywood (photographer), John B. Heywood
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Albert Gallatin Hoit
Albert Gallatin Hoit (December 13, 1809 – December 18, 1856) was an American painter who lived in Boston, Massachusetts. He painted portraits of William Henry Harrison, Daniel Webster and Brenton Halliburton.
Biography
Hoit was born in ...
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Charles Hubbard (artist)
Charles Hubbard (1801–1875) was an artist in Boston, Massachusetts in the 19th century. He kept a studio on Tremont Row and was affiliated with the Boston Artists' Association. He served as state senator from 1851-1852.
Biography
Hubbard tra ...
* William Hudson Jr., artist
* F.A. Jones & Co. "Great Silk and Shawl House"
* Joseph Leonard, auctioneer; Leonard & Cunningham
* Leonard & Pierce
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G.H. Loomis, photographer
* Mayer's Confectionary
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Mechanic Apprentices Library Association
* Naismith Photographer
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New England Art Union
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William H. Oakes
W. H. Oakes (died 1890) was a music publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He published compositions by Daniel Auber, Henry Russell and others.
History
Although details of his life remain scarce, ample evidence exists to show th ...
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Alfred Ordway
Alfred T. Ordway (March 9, 1821 – November 17, 1897) was an American landscape and portrait painter, and one of the founding fathers of the Boston Art Club.
Early years
Alfred was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to mother Currier, and father Th ...
* Pavilion Hotel
* George P. Reed, publisher
* Scollay Theatre
* Sharp & Michelin lithographer
* Southworth & Hawes
Southworth & Hawes was an early photographic firm in Boston, 1843–1863. Its partners, Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901), have been hailed as the first great American masters of photography, whose work ...
, photographers
* I.A. Wetherbee
* Merrill G. Wheelock
Merrill Greene Wheelock (1822–1866) was an artist and architect in Boston, Massachusetts in the 19th century. He served in the Massachusetts infantry in the American Civil War.
Biography
Wheelock exhibited at the Boston Art Club (1857) an ...
* Moses Wight
Moses Wight (1827–1895) was an artist in Boston, Massachusetts and Paris in the 19th century. He painted portraits of Edward Everett, Louis Agassiz, Charles Sumner, Alexander von Humboldt, and other notables.
Biography
Wight "began the prac ...
, artist
new york dental parlors
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
* Scollay Square
300px, Scollay Square, Boston, 19th century (after September 1880)
350px, Scollay Square, Decoration Day, 19th century (after September 1880)
Scollay Square (c. 1838–1962) was a vibrant city square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It was na ...
References
Further reading
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External links
* Bostonian Society. Photos:
** J.J. Hawes
57-1/2 Tremont Row at Scollay Square, c. 1865
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24-28 Tremont Row at Scollay Square, c. 1880-95
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3-7 Tremont Row, c. 1908-1912
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Tremont Row, 1912
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Tremont Row, Scollay Square, c. 1960
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Theatre Comique at 14 Tremont Row, 1916
* Library of Congress:
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Sheet music published by Oakes & Swan, 8-1/2 Tremont Row, ca1840
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Sheet music lithographed by Sharp & Michelin, 17 Tremont Row, ca1840
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Sheet music published by Geo. P. Reed, 17 Tremont Row c1843
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