Horticultural Hall (Boston, 1845)
Horticultural Hall (1845-1860s) of Boston, Massachusetts, stood at no.40 School Street.[1][2] The Massachusetts Horticultural Society erected the building and used it as headquarters until 1860.[3] Made of granite, it measured "86 feet in length and 33 feet in width ... [with] a large hall for exhibitions, a library and business room, and convenient compartments for the sale of seeds, fruits, plants and flowers."[4] Among the tenants: Journal of Agriculture;[5] Azell Bowditch's seed store;[6] and Morris Brothers, Pell & Trowbridge minstrels.[7][8]
Events
[edit]- 1840s
- Benjamin Champney exhibit[9]
- Exhibit of John Skirving's "Panorama of Fremont's Overland Journey to Oregon and California"[9][10]
- 1850s
- "Living specimens ... of mankind" from Iximaya, Central America[9]
- Harmoneons performance[9]
- American Pomological Society meeting
- 1854: Boston's first Women's Rights Convention[11]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Boston Directory. 1852
- ^ Horticultural Hall stood on the former site of the Boston Latin School (1812-1844). cf. Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1903
- ^ The society sold the property to hotelier Harvey D. Parker in 1860. cf. History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society., Boston: The Society, 1880, OL 24162582M
- ^ Hayward, John (1847), A gazetteer of Massachusetts, Boston: J. Hayward, OCLC 9917283, OL 24617659M
- ^ American Agriculturalist, July 1851
- ^ Journal of Agriculture, 1851
- ^ Proceedings of the Bostonian Society at the annual meeting, January 9, 1900
- ^ The building was "also known as Pell, Huntley and Morris Brothers Opera House January 1858; School Street Opera House, 1860; The Boudoir, 1861." cf. King, Donald C. (2005), The theatres of Boston, Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co., ISBN 0-7864-1910-5, OL 3392044M, 0786419105
- ^ a b c d American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
- ^ Peter E. Palmquist, Thomas R. Kailbourn. Pioneer photographers of the far west: a biographical dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford University Press, 2000
- ^ Robinson, Harriet (1883). Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Roberts Brothers. p. 36.
External links
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- Boston Athenaeum. Lithographs:
- Horticultural Hall. Boston : Published by Henry Prentiss; Printed by J.H. Bufford & Co.'s Lith., 1845.
- Horticultural Hall. Boston : Lane and Scott's Lithography, ca.1840s
