. Boston, a guide book . the old house. At the end of School Street the ancient building long known as the**01d Corner Bookstore lingers a weathered old relic of the past inone of the busiest quarters, although the booksellers finally left it in1903. It dates from 1712. It had been a book stand since 1828. Itsinterest lies particularly in its literary associations, for in what is regardednow as the golden age of Boston literary activity — about the middleand third quarter of the nineteenth century — it was the chief literarylounge and calling place of the city. This was especially the characte
. Boston, a guide book . the old house. At the end of School Street the ancient building long known as the**01d Corner Bookstore lingers a weathered old relic of the past inone of the busiest quarters, although the booksellers finally left it in1903. It dates from 1712. It had been a book stand since 1828. Itsinterest lies particularly in its literary associations, for in what is regardednow as the golden age of Boston literary activity — about the middleand third quarter of the nineteenth century — it was the chief literarylounge and calling place of the city. This was especially the character-istic of the Old Corner during the long years of its occupancy byTicknor & Fields and their immediate successors. The Curtained Corner of James T. Fields in the back part of the old book-shop has been much discoursed upon. George William Curtis in the EasyChair called it the exchange of wit, the Rialto of current good things, the hubof the hub. It was a very remarkable group of men, — indeed it was the first. Old Corner Bookstore so OLD SOUTH MEETINGHOUSE group of really great American authors which familiarly frequented the corneras guests of Fields. Previous to this building there was here the Hutchinson Homestead,where lived that colonial dame, Anne Hutchinson^ strong of mind andkeen of wit, one of John Cottons old Boston-in-England parishioners, who became the central figurein the violent antinomian controversy which tore theColony in 1637-1638, and who was finally banishedfor heresy. In her little home here she instituted theweekly gathering of women to discuss the Sundaysermon after the fashion of the men, and so she iscredited with having set up the first womans club inAmerica. The Old South Buildhig opposite, the monumentalbusiness structure of stone and steel spreadingbetween Spring Lane and around the Old SouthMeetinghouse to Milk Street, covers near its south-east end the site of Winthrops second mansion(where he died), which was afterward and until theRevolu
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