Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . rr^ n ?1 1 ^ -ifTi : dU 1 \:M-- m- i^r i \i tij Ssl F^ N ^, 11 >, i :f*^ BROMFIELD HOUSE, ABOUT 18G0. IN OLD BOSTON 333 days it was kept by Laban Adams, father ofOliver Optic Adams. Near by, on HaywardPlace, long famous as the resort of Bohemiandiners-out, was another noted inn called theWhite Horse. In the nineteenth century, however, theunique claim to a picturesque cognomen andsign-board belonged to the Indian Queen onBromfield Street. This was a noted stage tavernand it was kept - till 1
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . rr^ n ?1 1 ^ -ifTi : dU 1 \:M-- m- i^r i \i tij Ssl F^ N ^, 11 >, i :f*^ BROMFIELD HOUSE, ABOUT 18G0. IN OLD BOSTON 333 days it was kept by Laban Adams, father ofOliver Optic Adams. Near by, on HaywardPlace, long famous as the resort of Bohemiandiners-out, was another noted inn called theWhite Horse. In the nineteenth century, however, theunique claim to a picturesque cognomen andsign-board belonged to the Indian Queen onBromfield Street. This was a noted stage tavernand it was kept - till 181G — by Isaac Traskand afterwards by his widow Nabby. Then itbegan to be called the Bromfield House. Oneof its landlords was Simeon Boyden, father ofDwight Boyden, the first landlord of theTremont House, and of Frederic Boyden, oneof the early landlords of the Astor House, NewYork. Subsequently the Bromfield House waskept by Preston Shepard (1823) who was, inturn, followed as a landlord by the Crocketts,father and son. Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells has written charm-ingly ^ of the entertainment w
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