Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . range-TreeTavern, which designated the northerly end of Treamount Streetin 1732, and beginning of Hanover Street in 1708. It contip-ued a tavern until 1785, when it was advertised to be name was from the sign of an orange-tree, and the inn wasnoted for the best weU of water in the town, — never dry norknown to freeze. Here was the first hackney-coach stand wehave an account of, set up by Jonathan Wardwell, keeper ofthe Orange-Tree, in 1712. He was succeeded by JNIrs. Ward-well, who kept the house in 1724. Concert Hall, of which a consi
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . range-TreeTavern, which designated the northerly end of Treamount Streetin 1732, and beginning of Hanover Street in 1708. It contip-ued a tavern until 1785, when it was advertised to be name was from the sign of an orange-tree, and the inn wasnoted for the best weU of water in the town, — never dry norknown to freeze. Here was the first hackney-coach stand wehave an account of, set up by Jonathan Wardwell, keeper ofthe Orange-Tree, in 1712. He was succeeded by JNIrs. Ward-well, who kept the house in 1724. Concert Hall, of which a considerable moiety is now in thestreet, was on the southerly corner, and was also a tavern, kejjt,in 1792, by James Vila. The site was first known as HouchinsCorner, from a tanner of that name who occupied it. Thebuilding was of brick, though it underwent various alterationsuntil torn down in 1869, to make Avay for the widening ofHanover Street. Concert Hall was owned by the family ofDeblois until 1679. Before the Eevolution it was a resort of the. FROM THE OKANGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK. 71 Friends of Liberty, and as early as 1755, after the installationof Jeremy Gridley as Grand Master of the Masons in NorthAmerica, it was used by the Grand Lodge for occasions ofmeeting or festivity, and continued to be so used until thepresent century. Here have met Gridley, the Warrens, Revere,Tomlinson, Oxnard, Webb, and others. Here Captain Prestonwas dallying on the evening of the fatal 5th of March, 1770,when he was summoned in hot haste to begin the first act ofthe great conflict of the American Eevolution. The Americanprisoners captured at Bunker Hill are said to have been triedby a military court in Concert Hall. In 1768 the obnoxiousCommissioners of Customs ventured to return from the Castle,wliile the town was under the control of the newly arrivedBritish troops, and had an office here, with a sentinel at thedoor. And here came Samuel Adams and James Otis to re-monstrate with them. Acc
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