Tremont Row

Detail of map of Boston in 1895, showing Tremont Row

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

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 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 Alfred Ordway Pavilion Hotel[17] George P. Reed, publisher[5] Scollay Theatre Sharp & Michelin lithographers Southworth & Hawes, photographers I.A. Wetherbee Merrill G. Wheelock Moses Wight, artist

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, ca.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, ca.1916

References

1. Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910
2. "Tremont Row now Scollay Sq.: eleventh name in its history." Boston Globe, Feb. 20, 1926
3. Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), May 27, 1859
4. "Portrait of Gov. Briggs." Daily Atlas, Feb. 3, 1844
5. American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
6. Farmer's Cabinet (Amherst NH), Aug. 5, 1857
7. The Boston Directory, 1895, page 420
8. The Boston Directory, 1897, page 449
9. Boston Directory, 1840
10. The Crayon, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr., 1858)
11. Daily Atlas, April 24, 1843
12. Salem Gazette, March 16, 1841
13. Daily Atlas, Jan. 1, 1845
14. Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), Nov. 18, 1853
15. "The paintings in Tremont Row." Daily Atlas, June 2, 1852
16. "Chinese Azalia." Boston Daily Atlas, April 23, 1844
17. "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.

External links

• Bostonian Society. Photos:
  • J.J. Hawes. 57-1/2 Tremont Row at Scollay Square, ca. 1865
  • 24-28 Tremont Row at Scollay Square, ca. 1880-95
  • 3-7 Tremont Row, ca. 1908-1912
  • Tremont Row, 1912
  • Tremont Row, Scollay Square, ca. 1960
  • Theatre Comique at 14 Tremont Row, 1916
• Library of Congress:
  • Sheet music published by Oakes & Swan, 8-1/2 Tremont Row, ca1840
  • Sheet music lithographed by Sharp & Michelin, 17 Tremont Row, ca1840
  • Sheet music published by Geo. P. Reed, 17 Tremont Row c1843

See also

• Scollay Square

Coordinates: 42°21′37.32″N 71°3′39.32″W / 42.3603667°N 71.0609222°W