Winter Street in
Boston
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, Massachusetts, is located between
Tremont Street
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Tremont Street begins at Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Government Center in Boston's city center as a continuation of Cambridge Street, and forms the eastern edge of ...
and
Washington Street, near the
Common
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As an Irish surname, it is anglicised from Irish Gaelic surname Ó Comáin.
Places
* Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
* Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts
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. It is currently a
pedestrian zone
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. Prior to 1708, it was called Blott's Lane and then Bannister's Lane.. It was also known at times as "Winer Street".
See also
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Downtown Crossing
Downtown Crossing is a shopping district within Downtown Boston, Massachusetts, located east of Boston Common, west of the Financial District, south of Government Center, and north of Chinatown and the old Combat Zone. It features la ...
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Boston Music Hall
The Boston Music Hall was a concert hall located on Winter Street in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional entrance on Hamilton Place.
One of the oldest continuously operating theaters in the United States, it was built in 1852 and was the ...
;Former tenants
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M.M. Ballou, publisher
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Deloss Barnum, photographer
* Central Church
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Walter Lofthouse Dean, 3 Winter Street, painter
["Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Volumes 1–3", by Corcoran Gallery of Art]
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Draper & Folsom, publishers
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Fadettes of Boston
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Gilchrist's store
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A.N. Hardy, photographer
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Josiah Leavitt
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New England Emigrant Aid Company
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''Polyanthos''
* Henry and
John Christian Rauschner, portraitists
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Schoenhof & Moeller
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S.R. Urbino, foreign books
References
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,
File:The Atlantic Monthly, published November 1857.jpg, ''Atlantic Monthly
''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
It was founded in 1857 ...
'', 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.,
File:2010 WinterSt Boston.jpg, Winter Street, Boston, March 2010
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