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.[1] It existed until the 1920s, when it became known as Scollay Square.[2] In 1859 the Barre Gazette newspaper described Tremont Row as "the great Dry Goods Street of Boston."[3]
Tenants[edit]
Anthony Feola Photographer
- Thomas Gold Appleton
- Austin and Stone's Dime Museum
- Thomas Ball, sculptor[4]
- Hammatt Billings, architect[5]
- Boston Artists' Association
- Comstock & Ross[5]
- Cutting & Turner, photographers[6]
- John J.P. Davis, daguerreotype artist[5]
- Dobson & Schumann, photographers[7]
- R.A. Dobson, photographer[8]
- John Doggett & Co.[9]
- Thomas Edwards (artist)
- Marguerite F. Foley, "cameo cutter"[10]
- E.J. Foss, photographer
- Miss Addie M. Gendron, photographer
- Frederick Gleason, publisher
- Mr. Gray, portrait artist[11]
- Harris & Stanwood, silver[12]
- Haven, Pierce & Co., shoes[5]
- Josiah Johnson Hawes, photographer
- Heard & Moseley [1]
- John B. Heywood
- Albert Gallatin Hoit
- Charles Hubbard (artist)
- William Hudson Jr., artist[13]
- F.A. Jones & Co. "Great Silk and Shawl House"[14]
- Joseph Leonard, auctioneer; Leonard & Cunningham[5]
- Leonard & Pierce[15]
- G.H. Loomis, photographer
- Mayer's Confectionary[16]
- Mechanic Apprentices Library Association
- Naismith Photographer
- New England Art Union
- William H. Oakes [2]
- Alfred Ordway
- Pavilion Hotel[17]
- George P. Reed, publisher[5] [3]
- Scollay Theatre
- Sharp & Michelin lithographers [4]
- Southworth & Hawes, photographers
- I.A. Wetherbee
- Merrill G. Wheelock
- Moses Wight, artist
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Images[edit]
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Detail of map of Boston in 1838, showing Tremont Row. -
Advertisement for Tuttle & Oakes boots and shoes, 1848 -
Advertisement for Southworth & Hawes, daguerreotypists, 1848 -
Brattle Street, looking up towards Tremont Row, c. 1860s (Bostonian Society) -
Advertisement for J.S. Hunt & Co. detective office, 1868 -
Theatre Comique, Tremont Row, Boston, c. 1916
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910
- ^ "Tremont Row now Scollay Sq.: eleventh name in its history." Boston Globe, Feb. 20, 1926
- ^ Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), May 27, 1859
- ^ "Portrait of Gov. Briggs." Daily Atlas, Feb. 3, 1844
- ^ a b c d e f American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
- ^ Farmer's Cabinet (Amherst NH), Aug. 5, 1857
- ^ The Boston Directory, 1895, page 420
- ^ The Boston Directory, 1897, page 449
- ^ Boston Directory, 1840
- ^ The Crayon, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr., 1858)
- ^ Daily Atlas, April 24, 1843
- ^ Salem Gazette, March 16, 1841
- ^ Daily Atlas, Jan. 1, 1845
- ^ Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), Nov. 18, 1853
- ^ "The paintings in Tremont Row." Daily Atlas, June 2, 1852
- ^ "Chinese Azalia." Boston Daily Atlas, April 23, 1844
- ^ "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". 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- "Tremont Row". Boston Register and Business Directory. Sampson & Murdock Co. 1914. hdl:2027/hvd.hn4fl3 – via HathiTrust.
- "Tremont Row". Boston Register and Business Directory. Sampson & Murdock. 1918 – via Google Books.
- "Tremont Row". Boston Register and Business Directory. Sampson & Murdock Co. 1921.
External links[edit]
- Bostonian Society. Photos:
- Library of Congress:
