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词条 Cornhill, Boston
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{{about|the Boston street named in 1829|the Cornhill section of Washington Street|Washington Street (Boston)}}Cornhill was a street in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th and 20th centuries, located on the site of the current City Hall Plaza in Government Center. It was named in 1829; previously it was known as Market Street (1807-1828).[1][2] In its time, it comprised a busy part of the city near Brattle Street, Court Street and Scollay Square. In the 19th century, it was the home of many bookstores and publishing companies.[3] As of 1969, Cornhill exists as 144 feet along the edge of City Hall Plaza.[4]

See also

  • City Hall Plaza
  • Sears' Crescent building (built 1816) 100 City Hall Plaza; formerly 38-68 Cornhill)[5][5]
  • Sears' Block (built 1848) corner Court + Washington St., formerly 70-72 Cornhill[6][5]
Previous tenants of Cornhill
  • Annin & Smith, 19th-century engravers[7]
  • Iver Johnson Sporting Goods Company, Located in the Iver Johnson Building, corner of Washington Street and Cornhill
  • Daniel Clement Colesworthy, bookseller, c. 1850s[8]
  • Frost & Adams, art supplies
  • The Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper), published by Isaac Knapp, Cornhill, c. 1837[9]
  • Bela Marsh, 19th century publisher
  • F.T. Somerby, painter

Images

References

1. ^{{Citation |publisher = Mutual News Co. |publication-place = Boston |title = Boston events |url = https://archive.org/stream/bostonevents00savagoog |author = Edward Hartwell Savage |publication-date = 1886 }}
2. ^From 1708 to 1824, a portion of Washington Street was known as "Cornhill;" cf. {{Citation |publisher = City of Boston Printing Dept. |publication-place = Boston |title = A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/OL16574538M/A_record_of_the_streets_alleys_places_etc._in_the_city_of_Boston. |author = Boston (Mass.). Street laying-out Dept. |edition = 2 |publication-date = 1910 }}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Cornhill – Once Boston’s Literary Center, Today Replaced by Government Center|url=https://forgottennewengland.com/2012/06/04/cornhill-once-bostons-literary-center-today-replaced-by-government-center/|website=Forgotten New England|accessdate=10 May 2016}}
4. ^"Public way. Open from Franklin Ave to approximately 144 feet easterly." cf. {{cite web |url=http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/streetbook/ |title=Street Book |publisher=City of Boston |accessdate=2010-06-17 }}
5. ^1 {{Citation |publisher = Globe Pequot |publication-place = Guilford, Conn |title = AIA guide to Boston |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22549621M/AIA_guide_to_Boston |author1 = Susan Southworth |author2=Michael Southworth |publication-date = 2008 |edition=3 |oclc = 175057014 }}
6. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov |title=National Register of Historic Places |publisher=U.S. Dept. of the Interior |accessdate=2010-06-17 }}
7. ^Boston Directory. 1832
8. ^Boston Directory. 1857
9. ^American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no. 5153
10. ^Boston Directory. 1861

Further reading

  • "Old Boston Booksellers: the Three Burnham Brothers and their Antecedents." New York Times, July 21, 1893. (Mentions Samuel B. Drake and Burnham Brothers, booksellers).

External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100509223522/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/ Bostonian Society] has materials related to the street.
  • [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mit-libraries/3421565500/ G.Kepes]. Photo of Scollay Square From Pemberton Square Looking Across to Cornhill Street, 1957.
  • Flickr. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinobrien/75743661/ Sears Crescent], 1999
  • Flickr. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/saintseminole/2559617530/ Sears Crescent], 2008
  • Flickr. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/27677258@N00/3705180337/ Photo], 2009
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