Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . starting from thefoot of the northern side of Beacon Hill and turninggradually east and south, we come across a number of theolder literary houses that, as in the South End, cannotwell be grouped by streets. No. 34 Cambridge Street. In the sixties, Harriet Prescott Spof-ford. Later home Newburyport. No. 42 Green Street, near Bowdoin Square. Harriet Beecher 20 WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT Stowe (i8ii-i8q6). From 1826 to 1832, twenty years before shewrote Uncle Toms Cabin, and some seven before he
Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . starting from thefoot of the northern side of Beacon Hill and turninggradually east and south, we come across a number of theolder literary houses that, as in the South End, cannotwell be grouped by streets. No. 34 Cambridge Street. In the sixties, Harriet Prescott Spof-ford. Later home Newburyport. No. 42 Green Street, near Bowdoin Square. Harriet Beecher 20 WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT Stowe (i8ii-i8q6). From 1826 to 1832, twenty years before shewrote Uncle Toms Cabin, and some seven before her marriage.( Dred; Oldtown Folks; The Pearl of Orrs Island; etc.) No. 2 Lynde Street. Harrison Gray 0^3(1765-1848). Promi-ent lawyer and mayor of Boston. Built in 1705. the house is nowheadquarters of The Society for the Preservation of New EnglandAntiquities, a rapidly growing museum open to the public. [ The building formerly occupied by the Old Comer Bookstore (corner Washington and School streets) is a landmark almost ashistorical as it is literary. Il is the oldest brick building in OLD CORNER BOOKSTORE BUILDINGCORNER OF .SCHOOL AND WASHINGTON STREETS lUiilt in 1712, it stands on the site where Anne Hutchinson (r^Qi-i()43) held her famous meetings, for the liberalism of whi* h she wasdriven from the Colony. So long had this building been put to ilsft)rmer use that its title has been for years a familiar Boston by-word. Beginning with 1S28, the front was used as a bt)()kshop byCarter & Hendee. They were succeeded by the following book-firms: .\llen & Ticknor, William D. Ticknor. W. D. Ticknor & Co.,Ticknor & Fields, F. P. Dutton & Co., .\. Williams & ClV^Cupples,Cpham & Co., and Damrell & Upham. From this famous cornerdeveloped the present firm of Houghton Mifflin Co. (see Park Street), WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT ,,. 21 and the now extinct firm of Roberts Bros. Early in the last centufly,however, it was the home and shop of Dr. Samuel Clarke, the fatherof James Fre
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