Winter Street (Boston)
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Winter Street, Boston, ca.1860s (photo by John B. Heywood)
Winter Street in Boston, Massachusetts is located between Tremont Street and Washington Street, near the Common. It is currently a pedestrian zone.[1] Prior to 1708, it was called Blott's Lane and then Bannister's Lane.[2][3]
[edit] See also
- Former tenants
- M.M. Ballou, publisher
- Deloss Barnum, photographer
- Central Church[4]
- Draper & Folsom, publishers
- Fadettes of Boston
- Gilchrist's store
- A.N. Hardy, photographer
- Josiah Leavitt
- New England Emigrant Aid Company
- Polyanthos (magazine)
- Henry and John Christian Rauschner, portraitists
- Schoenhof & Moeller
- S.R. Urbino, foreign books
[edit] References
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- ^ City of Boston. "Street Book".
- ^ Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910.
- ^ Thomas Wait Tucker. 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
- ^ "Central Church". Gleasons Pictorial (Boston, Mass.) 5. 1853.
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"Very neat green and blue umbrilloes, to be sold exceeding low, by Oliver Greenleaf," 1768 (Boston Evening-Post)
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Atlantic Monthly, no.1, 1857; published by Phillips, Sampson & Co., 13 Winter St.
Coordinates: 42°21′21.17″N 71°3′40.94″W / 42.3558806°N 71.0613722°W