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. It existed until the 1920s, when it became known as Scollay Square. In 1859 the Barre Gazette newspaper described Tremont Row as "the great Dry Goods Street of Boston."
Tenants
Anthony Feola Photographer
- Thomas Gold Appleton
- Austin and Stone's Dime Museum
- Thomas Ball, sculptor
- Hammatt Billings, architect
- Boston Artists' Association
- Comstock & Ross
- Cutting & Turner, photographers
- John J.P. Davis, daguerreotype artist
- Dobson & Schumann, photographers
- R.A. Dobson, photographer
- John Doggett & Co.
- Thomas Edwards (artist)
- Marguerite F. Foley, "cameo cutter"
- E.J. Foss, photographer
- Miss Addie M. Gendron, photographer
- Frederick Gleason, publisher
- Mr. Gray, portrait artist
- Harris & Stanwood, silver
- Haven, Pierce & Co., shoes
- Josiah Johnson Hawes, photographer
- Heard & Moseley
- John B. Heywood
- Albert Gallatin Hoit
- Charles Hubbard (artist)
- William Hudson Jr., artist
- F.A. Jones & Co. "Great Silk and Shawl House"
- Joseph Leonard, auctioneer; Leonard & Cunningham
- Leonard & Pierce
- G.H. Loomis, photographer
- Mayer's Confectionary
- Mechanic Apprentices Library Association
- Naismith Photographer
- New England Art Union
- William H. Oakes
- Alfred Ordway
- Pavilion Hotel
- George P. Reed, publisher
- Scollay Theatre
- Sharp & Michelin lithographers
- Southworth & Hawes, photographers
- I.A. Wetherbee
- Merrill G. Wheelock
- Moses Wight, artist
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Images
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Detail of map of Boston in 1838, showing Tremont Row.
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Advertisement for Tuttle & Oakes boots and shoes, 1848
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Advertisement for Southworth & Hawes, daguerreotypists, 1848
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Brattle Street, looking up towards Tremont Row, c. 1860s (Bostonian Society)
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Advertisement for J.S. Hunt & Co. detective office, 1868
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Theatre Comique, Tremont Row, Boston, c. 1916
See also
References
- 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
- ^ 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
- "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
- Bostonian Society. Photos:
- Library of Congress:
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