Cornhill, Boston

This article is about the Boston street named in 1829. For the Cornhill section of Washington Street, see Washington Street (Boston).
Cornhill, Boston, 1962

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. As of 1969, Cornhill exists as 144 feet along the edge of City Hall Plaza.[3]

See also

Previous tenants of Cornhill

Images

  1. ^ Boston Directory. 1861

References

  1. ↑ Edward Hartwell Savage (1886), Boston events, Boston: Mutual News Co.
  2. ↑ From 1708 to 1824, a portion of Washington Street was known as "Cornhill;" cf. Boston (Mass.). Street laying-out Dept. (1910), A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston (2 ed.), Boston: City of Boston Printing Dept.
  3. ↑ "Public way. Open from Franklin Ave to approximately 144 feet easterly." cf. "Street Book". City of Boston. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  4. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places". U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  5. 1 2 Susan Southworth; Michael Southworth (2008), AIA guide to Boston (3 ed.), Guilford, Conn: Globe Pequot, OCLC 175057014
  6. ↑ Boston Directory. 1832
  7. ↑ Boston Directory. 1857
  8. ↑ American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no. 5153

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Coordinates: 42°21′34.58″N 71°3′27.81″W / 42.3596056°N 71.0577250°W / 42.3596056; -71.0577250

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