Park Street Boston : Bullfirich Row The Wards Park St., C. 1815; Park Street Church (at right), More details Unknown author - Simons. Boston beheld: antique town and Publ country views. UPNE, 2008. https://books.google.com/books? File: ParkSt. ca. 18 id=eA7FjMq4JDoC Simonsl Created: circa Art work by an anonymous artist, of Park Street, Boston, QS:P, 00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480, ca.1815 About this interface I Discussion Help -- Session timeout in 8:55 Page 1 of 1 ATHENA The Boston Athenaeum Catalog Need help locating a book? Guide to Cutter Books | Guide to Library of Congress Books Search Headings Titles Patron Login Request Bookbag Help Exit Search Request: Left Anchored Title = park street Search Results: Displaying 2 of 9 entries previous next Brief Record Full Record MARC Record Title: Park Street, ca. 1858 [graphic]. Primary Material: Visual Material Publishing Details: [18--] Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; image 18.2 x 23.3 cm., mount 20.2 x 26.8 cm. 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Title: [Park Street from the State House lawn, ca. 1859] [graphic]. Linked Resources: Scanned image available here Primary Material: Visual Material Publishing Details: Boston : Josiah Johnson Hawes, [ca. 1859] Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; sheet 26.9 x 36.8 cm. Location: Prints and Photographs Dept. 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The dome and facade of the Massachusetts State House, located on Beacon Street, are visible in the background of the photograph. Awnings and wrought iron railings adorn the facades of buildings lining the northeast side of Park Street. The southwest elevation of the Park Street Church, located on the northwest corner of Park and Tremont Streets, is visible along the right side of the photograph. The Boston Common, visible along the left-side of the photograph, is separated from Park Street by a wrought iron fence. A horse- drawn wagon is visible along the northeast side of Park Street, which is lined with street lights. 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The dome and facade of the Massachusetts State House, located on Beacon Street, are visible in the background of the photograph. Buildings line the northeast side of Park Street. Wrought- iron railings adorn their southwest-facing facades. The Boston Common, visible along the left-side of the photograph, is separated from Park Street by a wrought-iron fence. A horse-drawn carriage waits curbside along the northeast side of Park Street. Street lights line both sides of Park Street. 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The dome and facade of the Massachusetts State House, which is located on Beacon Street, is visible along the center-right side of the carte-de-visite. The Boston Common, which is separated from the southwest side of Park Street by a wrought-iron fence, is included in left- half of the photograph. Street-lights line the northeast side of Park Street. Snow blankets the ground, trees and buildings included in the photograph. Two pedestrians stand on both sidewalks lining Park Street. 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Call Number: (photo) AA B64B6 St.pa.(no.1) Number of Items: 1 Status: Available previous next Save Options Select Download Format: Full Record Print/Save Enter your email address: Email Save results for later: Save To Bookbag Search Headings Titles Patron Login Request Bookbag Help Exit Need help locating a book? Guide to Cutter Books I Guide to Library of Congress Books https://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=...2 2/8/2010 A Topographical and Historical Desription of Boston. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff. Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1871. History of the Boston Common, Pp. 294-368. The Granary Burying-Ground was originally part of the Common but in 1660 the graveyard was established. In 1662 public buildings were erected on its southwest corner (now Park Street) known as the Bridewell, Almshouse, and House of Correction and Granary. Currently bounded for 297 feet on southwest rear of houses fronting Park Street. (pg. 211). Park Street was formerly known as Centry (or Sentry) street and sometimes misspelled Century. Within the old burying ground "lie many of the most notable of the worthies of Boston. No yard here has given rest to the mortal remains of more distinquished persons than this." (p. .216) The oldest tombs were built near the back part of the yard. 0 1814 MAP C O M M O N Containing The Crooked E Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822 by Annie Haven Thwing MJC Boston Marshall Jones Company MD CCCC XX SUMMER STREET, WASHINGTON AND WINTER STREETS TRINITY CHURCH STREET (Water Line) CEDAR (Southac St.) (George St ST COPPER WORKS ST. GROVE ANDERSON (Centre St.) ST. S IRVING (Buttoiph StJ ST BARTONS NORTH RUSSELL ST. ARTON'S POINT SOUTH RUSSELL ST. COMMON ROPE WALK (wittshire St) ST. JOY (Clapboard St.) (Belknap St.) ST. CHAMBERS (Shute St.) ROPE WALKS (Turner St.) ST. ST. LEVERETT HANCOCK (George St.) WEST 0 ST. ROPE WALK RIDGEWAY CHURCH ROPE WALK STATE HOUSE ST STANIFORD ST TEMPLE (Middlecott St.) ST. BOWDOIN BOWDOIN SQUARE ST. GRANARY BOWLING GRANARY GREEN BURYING GROUND SOMERSET ST. Side) SECTION IV WEST END SECTION IV THE WEST END T HIS section extends west of Sudbury and Tre- mont streets and north of Boylston Street. It is noted for the spot which the first white man, William Blackstone, selected as the site for his cottage, where it is thought that for many years he lived alone. Also for the Common, the Granary Burying Ground, Alms- house, Bridewell Workhouse and Granary, and for rope- walks and distill houses north of Beacon Street. The great natural feature was the hill, with its three peaks which for a time gave the name to the town, "Tra mount," and the peaks were called "Beacon Hill," "Cotton Hill" and "West Hill." Beacon was the center one, and the highest, one hundred and eighty-five feet above sea level, at first called "Sentry Hill." March 4, 1634-5, it was ordered that a beacon be set up on Sentry Hill, to give notice to the coun- try of any danger. Several beacons succeeded, and the one blown down in 1789 gave place to a plain doric column of brick and stone, designed by Charles Bulfinch. It had a large eagle of wood, gilt, on the top. The height, including the eagle, was sixty feet, and the pedestal eight feet. In I753 "the Selectmen find that the hill on which the beacon stands and which belongs to the town is six rods square." Five years later it was found that Mr. Hudson, who had purchased part of the hill was digging it away, and an application was made to restrain him, but it was not until I774 that he proposed that the dispute between him and the town should be settled by arbitra- 197 198 THE CROOKED AND NARROW STREETS OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON I99 tion. In 1807 the Mill Pond Corporation was formed and later, "West Boston." It was the section and soon after began the digging away and leveling of devoted to pastures and mowing ground, and land the hill to fill up the Mill Pond. In 1855 Thomas Bul- was granted to those deserving of a grant for some service finch writes, in answer to one of "Gleaner's" articles: "At rendered, or who had been an adventurer in the common my earliest recollection the appearance of the hill was stock, or for some good reason, from two to twenty acres this; a grassy hemisphere SO steep that one could with each. The district was chiefly noted for its ropewalks, difficulty mount its sides, descending with a perfectly distilleries, and sugar houses. There were fourteen rope- regular curve to the streets on the southwest and north. walks here. There was only one church, the West Church, On the east it had been encroached upon and the contour a windmill, and as far as known only one tavern, the was broken. Just opposite the end on Coolidge Avenue White Horse Tavern, which in 1789 was somewhere on now Derne Street, there was a flight of wooden steps, ten Cambridge Street. or fifteen in number, leading part way up the hill. After CAMBRIDGE STREET originally extended from Sudbury that, one had to climb the rest of the way by aid of the Street to the water, ending in a marsh, the present Charles footholes that had been worn in the surface, along a wide Street. It was not until after 1800 that that part between path worn bare by the feet to the top, where was also a Bowdoin Square and Sudbury Street was included in space some fifty feet square, worn bare of sod. In the Court Street. According to the Book of Possessions the midst of this space stood the monument." estates were in the New Field. In 1647 there was ordered Cotton Hill, the eastern peak of Tramount, is now the "a highway of twelve feet through Mrs. Stoughton's site of Pemberton Square, and the West Hill sloped down ground and Richard Cook's and Thomas Buttolph's to the Mount Vernon Street to the water, now much reduced in end of the lots to Thomas Munt's ground." It was known height. At or near the foot was what was called "Black- by various names- "The lane leading to several men's en- stone Point." closures," "highway leading into Century Field among Mr. Nathaniel I. Bowditch, the noted conveyancer, the pastures," "common way leading to the Bowling has so graphically told the story of the estates of the early Green," "way running by the windmill"; in 1708 named inhabitants north of Beacon Street and west of Tremont Cambridge Street. and Sudbury streets that it would be superfluous to go over the same ground here, and the following items con- We will begin with the estates lying north of Cambridge Street and west of Sudbury Street. James Hawkins, brick- cerning the pastures are in a great measure taken from his articles signed "Gleaner," in the Boston Transcript layer, bought the house and garden of William Kirby in 1652, and laid out a lane to accommodate his children's of 1855, and reprinted in the fifth report of the Record houses. It was called "the highway leading to Hawkins Commissioners. For many years this part of the town remained unimproved with the exception of pasture," and "an eight foot way that runs to Captain the estates on Tremont and Beacon Streets. The Gerrishes pasture"; also called "Tattle Street," and, in tract was called "Sentry Field," or the "new field" 1732, HAWKINS STREET. Part of this pasture through the Kneeland branch remained in the family until 1791. OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON 215 was twice married and had five children by his second wife, who later married Rev. Richard Mather, and his daughter Maria married Mather's son, Increase Mather. Cotton died in 1652. In 1664 the heirs of Cotton sold the south part of the estate to John Hull and in 1677 Hull bought the residue which had been sold to Nicholas Paige. In 1683 Samuel Sewall and wife Hannah (Hull) inherited, and the house was occupied by various ten- ants, but apparently not by Sewall himself. May 1716, a letter from Christopher Taylor to Sewall says: "Your house is now altered into two tene- ments. I have let the lower part to Mr. Harris, the minister, who comes in this day: I live in the upper end." In 1729 Sewall's daughter, Judith, wife of William Cooper, inherited, and at her death in 1758 all was conveyed to William Vassall, who was a prominent royalist and lived here until the Revolution. In 1790 Patrick Jeffrey bought this with adjoining prop- erty and it was sold to Gardiner Greene in 1803. He was one of the wealthiest men in the state, and made a beauti- ful estate on this spot. It has often been described and pictured. He lived here until his death in 1832, and Pat- rick Jackson bought it for investment in 1835. Patrick Jeffrey married Mary Haley in Boston in 1786. She was the widow of Alderman Haley of London, and sister of the celebrated John Wilkes. It was a case of a rich widow and a young husband. She soon returned to England, while he remained in Boston and died in Milton in 1812, aged sixty-four. Gardiner Greene married for his second wife the daughter of Copley, the artist. Daniel Maud, who was admitted to the church in 1635, and who was the first school teacher next to Pormount, had his house and garden, next south of Cotton, and also 220 THE CROOKED AND NARROW STREETS OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON 221 which Thomas Hancock bought in 1737 and where he built Blackstone released all his land to the town except the historic Hancock house, which his nephew John Han- six acres which he sold to Richard Pepys, as cock inherited in 1764. March 30, 1776, Edmund Quincy deposed by Anne Pollard in 1711, who said that wrote to his daughter Dorothy, wife of John Hancock, Pepys built the house and rented it to her hus- that General Pigot, who lived in the house during the band, William Pollard, and that Blackstone frequently winter, had left it in a cleanly state. About 1828 it was resorted to their house during the fourteen years they a boarding house, and it was torn down in 1863. lived there. All of this came to Thomas Bannister in In 1692 Samuel Sewall bought what he called his "Elm 1708-9, house, barn, stable, orchard, etc. Bannister now pasture." It was purchased from various owners, and owned from Walnut Street to Charles Street, and gave it streets were laid out for development, but these proved to the name of Mt. Pleasant. The old house which Bannister be merely streets on paper, and the plan was never carried bought with the East Pasture is now the site of the Somer- out. The pasture consisted of about five acres and ex- set Club. Nathaniel Cunningham acquired the whole tended from Joy Street to just west of Walnut Street. property through foreclosure of a mortgage, and his in- Thomas Bannister bought it in 1732 and in 1791 the part ventory mentions house, land, and pasture at the bottom west of Walnut Street went to John Joy, who then owned of the Common. A legal battle followed, and in 1769 all between Joy and Walnut Streets. In I770 Copley Peter Chardon, as administrator of Cunningham, conveyed bought the west part of the pasture. it all to John Singleton Copley. In 1796, Copley, The Francis East pasture was two and one-half acres, then living in London, deeded his estate to Jonathan and extended from Spruce Street to about halfway to Mason, Harrison Gray Otis, and others, called the Walnut Street. Thomas Bannister bought this in 1694, "Mt. Vernon Proprietors," - rather a shrewd investment and there was a house on the lot. John Singleton Copley, on their part, as it was known to them that the portrait painter, finally became the owner of the new State House was soon to be built in about eleven acres, made up of three divisions. the neighborhood. In 1798 John Vinal on the west and The west half of Sewall's Elm Pasture, the Francis Charlès Cushing east of him were the owners and occupiers East Pasture, and the Blackstone lot of six acres. of two houses on this estate. The bounds of the Copley Blackstone was a clergyman of the Church of England, estate were approximately Beacon, Walnut, Pinckney, and and was not in favor of the Puritans. He told them that he Charles Streets. could not join their church, for he left England to escape PARK STREET was once a part of the Common. In I733 from the lords bishops, and would not serve the lords openings into the Common were ordered, but in 1737 brethren here. He therefore removed from their juris- the Common was "much broken by means of carts, etc., diction and went to Rhode Island. He and Roger Williams passing and repassing on it, and it was ordered that there were the first in that state, as he had been first in the be but one entrance or passage for carts, coaches, etc., out town of Boston. There is no actual evidence how of Common Street into the Common to be left open near long he had been in New England, nor in Boston. the Granary to go up along by the Workhouse to Beacon 222 THE CROOKED AND NARROW STREETS OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON 223 Street and that the other gaps be closed." It was called, ready for occupation in I739. It was placed at the south- late in the eighteenth century, Center Street and Sentry west end of the house of correction and was one hundred Street: in 1808, Park Street. In the early days it was and forty by twenty by sixteen feet and built of brick. set apart as the place for public buildings. It was to be improved for the reception and employment The almshouse stood on the northeast corner of Beacon of the idle and the poor of the town. Street. It was erected in 1660 by legacies and gifts, and In 1712 a little house on Fort Hill was let by the town the selectmen "were empowered to compound with work- to Joseph Callender, for a granary. From that time the men for the erecting and furnishing it." This building was records show many orders for opening and leasing gran- burned in 1684, and rebuilt of brick and stone in the form aries, and their management. There was one at the North of an L one hundred by one hundred by fourteen feet and End, near the North Mill, at the end of Prince Street, two stories high. "This to be a place where those in need and that of Arthur Mason was on the east side of Tremont of alms be sent to work." Before long it grew to be a Street, between Winter and Bromfield Streets. In 1728 bridewell and house of correction, and in 1713 there was it was voted to build a granary in the Common, next/the a movement to restore it to its primitive and pious design Burying Ground. It was near the corner of Tremont and for the relief of the necessitous, and to build a house of Park Streets and a few years later it was moved nearer correction to separate those put in for vice and disorder. the Burying Ground to accommodate the workhouse, and But, with the exception of considering the subject, nothing make the appearance and prospect better, Corn, rye, was done until I72I. In I735 the ministers of the various and flour were purchased and sold to the poor. It held churches in the town were asked to take turns in preach- twelve thousand bushels. In 1788 it was let to a com- ing the gospel to the poor in the almshouse. In I742 pany of sail-cloth manufacturers, and in I791 Dr. Town- there were IIO persons there, and in 1769, 230, with 40 send, the inspector of ashes, was the occupant. In 1796 in the workhouse proper subjects for the almshouse. In the land was sold to Henry Jackson, all except the build- I795 a committee of the town reported that an entire new ing, which was to be removed. In 1798 it is in the tax set of buildings should be erected and they had found a list as owned by James Swan and occupied by five tenants suitable location at West Boston, on the north side of in stores. It was of four stories and of wood. Park Street Leverett Street, at Barton's Point. Church was built in 1809, The Granary was taken down In 1721 the bridewell or house of correction was ordered and removed to Commercial Point at the corner of Free- to be erected by the County of Suffolk. It was placed next port, Union, and Neponset Streets. It was fitted up for to the Almshouse and the dimensions were about fifty by a hotel called the "Tinion." twenty by fourteen feet, and built of brick. Beside the In 1801 the first three lots on "Centrey Street" next that master, there was to be a whipper constantly in attend- sold to Henry Jackson in 1796 were sold by the town ance. A little later part of the house was given up for to Arnold Welles, Peter C. Brooks, and Thomas H. Per- the insane. kins, and in 1803 the next two to Thomas Amory, which The workhouse was first proposed in 1735, and was included the Almshouse lot. 224 THE CROOKED AND NARROW STREETS OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON 225 In 1637 there was a pound, and Richard Fairbanks was about 78, Francis Hudson about 68, and William Lyther- poundkeeper, and to be paid in proportion. In 1654-5 land about 76, being antient, and inhabitants of the town Thomas Woodward sold land lying over against the new of Boston from the time of the first planting and contin- pinfold, at the entrance of the training green, which placed uing so until this day, depose that about the year 1634 the pound on the west side of Tremont Street, a little the then present inhabitants did treat and agree with Mr. south of Beacon Street. In 1720 it was voted "to remove William Blackstone for the purchase of this estate and the pound into the common nigh the upper end of the right of any lands lying within the sd neck of land called burying place." This was not far from the almshouse. Boston, and for the sd purchase agreed that every house- In 737 "the most convenient place for erecting the pound holder should pay six shillings which was accordingly col- is at the northeast corner of the pasture belonging to the lected, none paying less and some considerably more than heirs of the late Thomas Fitch, and ordered placed there." six shillings, and the sum collected was paid to Mr. This was near Boylston Street. In 1786 it was placed at William Blackstone to his full content and satisfaction. the North End, where the granary was, and it was still In consideration thereof he sold to the then inhabitants there in 1798, when it was to be repaired. and their heirs and assigns his whole right in all lands DAVIES LANE ran across the State House lot to the within the Neck, reserving only unto himself about orchard of Humphrey Davy, which later became the six acres of land on the point commonly called Blackstone's property of James Allen. In 1798 it was "the way from Point, on part thereof his dwelling house stood. After Beacon Street to Allen's orchard." It is now built over which purchase the town laid out a place for a trayning or included in other streets. field which ever since and now is used for that purpose, CHESTNUT and WALNUT STREETS were both laid out and for the feeding of cattle. We further testify that by the Mt. Vernon Proprietors in 1799. Mr. Blackstone bought a stock of COWS with the money he CHARLES STREET. In 794 the Selectmen were to lay received and removed and dwelt near Providence." out a street sixty feet wide from Pleasant Street along the The original bounds extended to Beacon Street its full easterly side of land granted for ropewalks, over the length, and the first infringement was in 1660, when the marsh, towards Beacon Street, in order to meet a road almshouse was built and the Granary Burying Ground that may be opened from West Boston Bridge. laid out. The houses on Tremont Street between School and Boylston Streets, were considered as in the Common, which included the gun house and schoolhouse. Many THE COMMON orders were passed concerning the Common. All who were admitted inhabitants were to have equal rights of "I April 1633 it was agreed that Mr. William Black- commonage. There was a COW keeper and a town bull. stone shall have fifty acres of ground set out for him near In 1649 Thomas Painter had leave to erect a mill on Fox to his house in Boston." "June IO 1684 the deposition of Hill, which was on what is now the Public Garden. In John Odlin, age about 82 years, Robert Walker 1652 James and Peter Oliver had leave to set up a wind- 226 THE CROOKED AND NARROW STREETS OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON 227 mill on the top of the hill between the town and Fox Hill. to the Common." September I, 1794, "a piece In 1703 "a watch house and a centry house were to stand of marsh land and flat at the bottom of the Common nigh the powder house on the Common." is granted to the owners of the ropewalks, which were The training was a great source of recreation as well burned in Pearl Street, including the whole or such part as discipline, and great importance was attached to the of Fox Hill as may fall within the bounds specified." militia, largely made up of volunteers. The Common was These ropewalks were repurchased by the city in 1824. their training field. It was the playground of the town, There were five of them, and they extended from Pleasant and it would not be possible to tell in a short space of all Street across what is now the Public Garden. the happenings on this historic spot. In 1676 there were eight Indians shot to death upon Windmill Hill. There has been much speculation as to the gallows. We do know that it was on the neck, and the only time that the records mention gallows on the Common was Novem- ber 21, 1787, when "Sheriff Henderson hath liberty of a gallows at the lower end of the Common for the execution of one Shean." In 1723, "sixty-three chiefs came from Albany. They had an OX given to them, which they killed with bows and arrows, and in the evening a fire was made on the Common, and a kettle hung over it, in which part of sd OX was boiled, and they danced after their own man- ner." At the entrance of the eighteenth century, Jan- uary I, 1700-I, just about break of day, Jacob Amsden and three other trumpeters gave a blast with their trum- pets on the Common in rear of Mr. Alford's. Duels were frequently fought here. In 1756 land was bought of Andrew Oliver, Jr., late Colonel Fitch's pasture, at the bottom of the Common for a burying place. This was on Boylston Street. September 21, 1740, George Whit- field preached to about fifteen thousand people on the Common, and again October I2. October 799 "several male and female rogues were publicly whipped and pilloried on Friday last," says the Boston Gazette. "We are glad that the scene for their punishment has been removed from State Street 2/26/19 PH0006416 Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE: (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Massachusetts COUNTY: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Suffolk INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries complete applicable sections) MAY 1 1974 1. NAME COMMON: Park Street District (use Sor publication) AND/OR HISTORIC: SAME APR 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER: 8. and Tremont Street, Park Street, Beacon Streets CITY OR TOWN: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Boston 9th STATE CODE COUNTY: CODE Massachusetts 025 Suffolk 025 3. CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP STATUS (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC District Building Public Public Acquisition: Occupied Yes: Site Structure Private In Process Restricted Unoccupied Both Being Considered Unrestricted Object Preservation work No in progress PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Agricultural Government Park Transportation Comments Commercial Industrial Private Residence Other (Specify) Educational Military Religious Cemetery Entertainment Museum Scientific 4. OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: Public and Private STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: STATE: CODE Boston Massachusetts 025 5. LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Registry of Deeds STREET AND NUMBER: Suffolk County Court House CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Boston Massachusetts 025 6. REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: (1) Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts DATE OF SURVEY: Federal State County Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Massachusetts Historical Commission (617) 727-8470 NUMBER STREET AND NUMBER: 40 Beacon Street CITY OR TOWN: STATE: CODE Boston Massachusetts 025 8. SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian 16th Century 18th Century 20th Century 15th Century 17th Century 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Aboriginal Education Political Urban Planning Prehistoric Engineering Religion/Phi. Other (Specify) Historic Industry losophy Agriculture Invention Science Architecture Landscape Sculpture Art Architecture Social/Human. Commerce Literature itarian Communications Military Theater Conservation Music Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Park Street District is significant as reflecting a plan by Charles Bulfinch to improve the eastern outskirts of the Boston Common and southern approach to the newly constructed State House. By intro- ducing the European system and standards of town planning, he designed a residential block of nine buildings which complimented the new State House and combined two existing urban spaces: the Common and the Granary Burying Ground Bulfinch's plan was strictly adhered to since he held the post of Chief Selectman which he used to support his archi- tectural and design recommendations. The result, an elegant avenue lined with Federal -style houses, initiated the transformation of the entire surroundings Residents were some of the most respected leaders of the 19th century, such as: Governor Christopher Gore; Governor Henry Joseph Gardner; Peter Chardon Brooks; George Cabot; Samuel Dexter. The Park Street Church designed by Peter Banner in 1809 solidified the block. 40 date, only the Church and the Armory-Ticknor house, 9 Park Street, remain from the original development; yet the principal elements of design set by Bulfinch can still be recognized. The later buildings which replaced the Federal style forbearers have been designed to respect the two original structures located on each corner. A continuity is existant due to similarity in set back, material, height, and scale. The arrangement provides a distinguished architectural frame for the eastern section of the Common and border of the Granary Burying Ground; the church with its commanding steeple still marks the well-known Brimstone Corner from many other parts of Boston. The main feature of this district lies in its unquestionable grace and dignity appropriate for the environment around the State House. (See continuation sheets #3 & 4) Park Street District Form 10-300° UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE APR Massachusetts 3 1974 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Suffolk FOR NPS USE ONLY #1 ENTRY NUMBER (Continuation Sheet) DATE MAY (Number all entries) T. Description (2) Park Street Church, 119 Tremont Street The Park Street Church was designed by Peter Banner in 1809, imme- diately after the town Granary was cleared from the site. This red- brick church with wooden steeple is in the form of a New England meeting house. The nave extends along Park Street and is marked by tall round headed windows set in embrasures which relate to the Palladian window above the main entrance. The central entry on Park Street is flanked by two bowed vestibules. The most commanding feature is the wooden Wren type steeple which rises 217' above the ground. The steeple with classic ornament is composed of three polygonal belfrys, a small polygonal lantern, and spire. (3) Amory-Ticknor House, 9-10 Park Street, 22-22A Beacon Street The Amory-Ticknor House, built in 1804, was originally a large brick Federal style mansion of four stories on the corner of Park and Beacon Streets. The basic cube mass was broken by three stories of rectilinear shaped windows and the characteristic square fourth story windows. A balustrade over the simple dentil cornice concealed the roof. The prominent decorative feature of the front facade (Park Street) consisted of wrought iron balconies around the first and second story windows. Two bay windows set in slightly relieved archways were on each side of the center Park Street entrance, which consisted of a semi- circular fan light with side lights flanking the door. Extending over the entry was an Adam-style porch approached by curving steps with a light iron railing. In 1812, a Greek Revival porch was constructed on the Beacon Street facade to indicate a recent division in ownership. To date, alterations which occurred during the late 19th century have remained. The ground floor level of both Beacon and Park Street facades was changed by the addition of projecting display windows, leaving only the Park Street porch and steps. Queen Anne style oriels were added to the third and fourth story windows of both facades. The dentil cornice was replaced with a heavy iron cornice and only a small section of the balustrade remains under an addition of three gable dor- mers to the Park Street roof. MINOR ELEMENTS (6) Union Club, 7 and 8 Park Street These two red brick structures, both five stories, were united in 1896 by the architect Henry B. Ball to provide the Union Club with larger facilities. To date, the structure appears as one, with similar facade treatment on both units, seven bays wide in total, with con- tinuous wrought iron balconies on the upper stories. Distinction between the two structures can still be observed at the roof line. At 7 Park Street, the fifth story windows are set in brownstone posts and capped by a brownstone balustrade. Number 8 Park Street features a front gable (constructed over two dormer windows) on one side of the roof placed next to two dormers, which still exist from the original design. GPO 921.724 Park Street District Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Massachusetts NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Suffolk FOR NPS USE ONLY (Continuation Sheet) #2 ENTRY NUMBER DATE MAY 1 1874 (Number all entries) 7. Description (7) Claflin Building, 18-20 Beacon Street This brownstone structure, designed by William G. Preston in 1883, stands six stories high. The second story windows are set into three prominent round headed embrasures, between which are two small copper medallion portraits of Jan Van Eyke and Albrect Durer. The three middle stories have oriels flanking paired double hung windows, while the final story is comprised of windows set between brownstone posts. (8) Congregational House, 14 Beacon Street This eight story red-brick, sandstone trim building was erected in 1898 from the designs of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. The main body of the three bay structure is organized in three round headed embrasures which end with a stone balustrade over a bracketed stone cornice. Four carved stone tablets at the second storey are bas-reliefs of scenes from colonial history which illustrate fundamental principles of religion, education, law and worship. APR S 974 Park Street District Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Massachusetts NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY Suffolk INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY #3 ENTRY NUMBER DATE (Continuation Sheet) 1 1974 (Number ell-enfree) 8. Significance MAJOR ELEMENTS (1) Granary Burying Ground, 83-115 Tremont Street The Granary Burying Ground was established in 1660 when the King's Chapel Burial Ground became over-crowded. First called the South Burial Ground, its subsequent name was derived from its geographic location next to the town Granary which stood on the site of the Park Street Church. Within this cemetery are the remains of more distinguished Bostonians of the Colonial era than any other burial ground in the city. Amongst the most eminent buried here are: Peter Faneuil, Uriah Cotting, Robert Treat Paine, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin's parents, and the victims of the Boston Mastacre. The designs carved on the major monuments, as well as those on the slate markers of the ordinary citizens, are excellent examples of early New England gravestones and provide an illustrated history of this folk art. (2) Park Street Church, 119 Tremont Street In the colonial settlement, the lot of the Park Street Church was occupied by the town Granary, a repository of grain for the poor and needy, located next to the Granary Burying Ground. Its demolition in 1809 provided ample space for the newly founded Park Street Church Society's new meeting house. The resultant red-brick church with its graceful steeple remains a tribute to its English architect, Peter Banner, and his adaptation of a Christopher Wren design. The delicately carved capitals of the steeple are the handiwork of Solomon Willard, architect of the Bunker Hill Monument. The church has long been associated with important civic, educa- tional, and social issues. During the War of 1812, brimstone, used in making gun powder, was stored in the crypt which lead to the name "Brimstone Corner" for this locality. (However, Boston legend attri- butes the origin of "Brimstone Corner" to the fervid doctrines preached within the church). In 1829, William Lloyd Garrison gave his first abolitionist address in Boston here. Many well-known societies reflecting important social movements were founded in this church: in 1815, the Handel and Hayden Society of Boston; in 1824, the Prison Discipline Society; in 1826, the American Temperance Society; in 1889, the Animal Rescue League. (3) Amory-Ticknor House, 9-10 Park Street and 22-22A Beacon Street The Amory-Ticknor house was the first house on Park Street erected from the plans of Charles Bulfinch in 1804. Designed for Thomas Amory, Esq., a Boston Merchant, it was referred to as "Amory's Folly' because of its unusual size and pretentiodsness. Financial losses forced Thomas Amory to dispose of the dwelling soon after its completion and the house was divided into two units to defer expenses. Among the many notable occupants, George Ticknor's residency in the easterly portion is best known. Mr. Ticknor, the author of "History of Spanish Literature" and a founder of the Boston Public Library, remained there from 1830 to 1871. GPO 921-724 Park Street District Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Massachusetts NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY Suffolk INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Continuation Sheet) #4 ENTRY NUMBER DATE MAY (Number all entries) 8. Significance MINOR ELEMENTS (6) Union Club, 7 and 8 Park Street The exact date and architect of these two red brick buildings remain unknown. The estate at 8 Park Street was best known in the 19th century as the residence of the Honorable Abbott Lawrence, whose family remained there from 1836 to 1863, when the property was leased to the Union Club. The original property and subsequent estate at 7 Park Street was owned by financier John Gore since 1803. In 1896, after a succession of prominent owners, 7 Park/Street was purchased by the Union Club and joined with 8 Park Street. The Union Club was established in 1863 by former members of the Somerset Club who were politically adhorent of the criticism of President Lincoln and his abolition policy. (7) Claflin Building, 18-20 Beacon Street The structure was designed by William Preston in 1883 for Governor William Claflin, Governor of Massachusetts between 1869 and 1872. During his lifetime (1818-1905) he was identified with many philanthropic movements and educational institutions including Boston University and Wellesley College. (8) Congregational House, 14 Beacon Street The Congregational House was designed by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge in 1898 to meet the expanding spatial requirements of the American Congregational Association. The Association was founded in 1853 to gather within one building all the Congregational societies located in Boston and also to establish a library to protect the original Puritan literature. APR 3 1974 GPO 921-724 Park Street District Form 10-300g UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Massachusetts NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY Suffolk INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Continuation Sheet) #5 ENTRY NUMBER DATE 1 1974 (Number all entries) 9. Bibliographical cont'd. 6. Drake, Samuel Adams; Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1971. 7. Kirker, Harold; The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch, Harvard University Press, 1969. 8. Kirker, Harold and Kirker James; Bulfinch's Boston, 1787-1817; New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. 9. Lawrence, Robert M. ; Old Park Street and Its Vicinity; Boston, 1922. 10. Newton Graphic, Obiturary of Governor Will Claflin, Newton, 1905. 11. Photographic Collections: Bostonian Society; Boston Athenaeum. 12. Thorndike, F. Lothrop; Past Members of The Union Club and A Brief Sketch of the History of the Club, Boston, 1893. 13. Whitehill, Walter M., , The Neighborhood of the Tavern Club, 1930-1971, Bostonian Society Picture Book, 1971. 14. Williams, Alex; A Social History of Greater Boston Clubs, Barre, Massachusetts, 1970. 6. Existing Surveys cont'd. (2) Title: Historic American Building Survey, Mass.-175; Mass. -631/ Date: 1934, 1935; n.d. Federal Survey Depository: Department of Prints, Library of Congress Address: Washington, D. C. 20540 Code: 011 GPO 921-724 Park Street #4 Park Street residence at 1/26/2005 The Book of Boston: Chapter 9 Robert Shackleton. 1917. Page 1 of 5 Web and Book design, Click Here to return to SRAF, Copyright, Kellscraft Studio Book of Boston 1999-2005 Content Page (Return to Web Text- Return to the Previous stude, ures) Chapter (HOME) CHAPTER IX THE DISTINCTIVE PARK STREET CORNER HE unusual prominence of monuments to ministers in Boston might at first thought, be ascribed by some to the fact of this being a woman's city; but of course, as any Bostonian would at once tell you, it is really because of the unusual prominence of ministers in the development and life of the city. There is the memorial to Phillips Brooks beside his church, at a busy edge of Copley Square, he being set within a canopied marble niche, garbed in his bishop's robes, with an angelic figure behind him: and not far away, at the nearest corner of the Public Garden, there is niched, like a cinque-cento saint, the long-gowned figure of William Ellery Channing. Entirely unlike both of these, in its exceedingly un-saint-like appearance, is the monument to another minister, Edward Everett Hale, at a Charles Street entrance to the Public Garden, for he stands in wait in the shrubs, just inside the gate, in every-day clothes and long loose overcoat, stooping, as if pausing for a moment in his walk, with his old-fashioned beaver hat in one hand and his cane in the other; a man honorably known to all Americans for his "Man without a Country." To commemorate not only the clerical profession but the medical, there is within the Public Garden a monument that gave Holmes the inspiration for a brilliant bit of wit. The monument was designed to commemorate the discovery of Ether, the mastering of the whole problem of consciousness of pain in surgery, but while it was under construction a fierce and never-to-be- settled controversy arose as to which of two claimant physicians was really the discoverer, and SO the monument was completed with the name of the man omitted, which led Holmes promptly to suggest, with that obviousness which marks all great wit, that it was not SO much a monument to Ether as to Either. There is an exceedingly prominent monument, the big equestrian of General Hooker, set up in front of the State House, which is also interesting on account of what is left off, for there is nothing but the single word "Hooker"; as if, one may fairly suppose, when they came to the matter of inscription, it was remembered that the only battle of consequence in which General Hooker commanded was the terrible defeat of Chancellorsville. It is sometimes delightfully wise to have brief inscriptions on statues. After all, New England was not fortunate in developing great military leaders in the Civil war, in spite of her prominence in the events and discussions preceding the struggle and in spite of the vast number of her men who gallantly went to the front; she developed no Grant or Thomas or Sherman; and already she has http://www.kellscraft.com/BookofBoston/BookofBoston09.html 9/8/2005 Book of Boston: Chapter 9 Page 2 of 5 practically hidden, off on one side of the State House, statues of the never-prominent General Banks and General Devens. But monumenting in haste and repenting at leisure is something far older than America. And it is a favorite Boston belief, long held and often expressed, that if she should set up statues to all her distinguished sons there would be no room left in which people could move about. Diagonally across from the Hooker monument, just away from the corner of Park and Beacon Streets, close to the altered Ticknor homestead, is a little house, tucked in among towering business buildings and faced by a great hotel: and this house, still a home, is filled with paintings collected years ago in Europe. It stood before the Revolution (its front has been changed), and about 1830 was the home of Chester Harding, the New England-born, backwoods artist who, after making his success in Paris - but it was a Paris in Kentucky - painted the great ones of America and of England, including judges and senators and some half dozen of the dukes, and then came back to Boston. For some time while in Boston he SO eclipsed Gilbert Stuart that that great painter was wont to ask, looking at his own empty studio and knowing that Harding's was thronged, "How rages the Harding fever?" Close by is the Athenaeum, most charming and delightful of libraries, full of serenity and repose and rich in its great collection of books. Not only does it possess the workable and readable books of recent years, but precious prints and books and manuscripts of the past, and such treasure as the greater part of the library of George Washington, each book, with his signature and bookplate, deposited here after its purchase in 1849 by "seventy gentlemen of Boston, Cambridge and Salem," who contributed fifty dollars each to obtain it. To the Bostonian of tradition, the Athenaeum still proudly represents the essence of the city; the building is admirably impressive outwardly, it is attractive and full of atmosphere within, and it is rich in the very spirit of the best of Boston. Its main entrance has a replica of Houdon's life- size statue of Washington, a replica, modeled by Houdon himself, of the original, which was made for the State of Virginia and is preserved at Richmond; Houdon having come to America to make a statue of Washington, at the request of Franklin, who knew him in Paris. The main reading-room, occupying the great upper floor, is of unusual architectural beauty, with its vaulted roof, its pillars and alcoves, its general fineness and comfort. The library is peculiarly fitted to the needs of the scholar, and membership in it, to be a "proprietor," as is the term, is highly esteemed. The great rear windows of the Athenaeum look down into the ancient deep-shaded Granary Burying Ground, and off at one side, also looking down into the burying-ground, are the windows of that monthly, the Atlantic, which is itself another of the treasured belongings of Boston: and especially is the bowed window noticeable when one learns that it is the window of the oval room in which James Russell Lowell reigned as editor, and where he still looks down benignantly from the wall, like a patron saint: and although one may do full honor to his memory and to his fine influence, the profuse and double-pointed whiskers do rouse the recollection of the little girl who asked: "But what are the points for?" http://www.kellscraft.com/BookofBoston/BookofBoston09.html 9/8/2005 Book of Boston: Chapter 9 Page 3 of 5 There are few more impressive burying-grounds in the world than the Granary, fronting out on busy Tremont Street and hemmed in on its other sides by towering business structures, by the phalanxed windows of the quiet Athenaeum, by the publishing buildings, and by the old Park Street Church. The Granary has impressiveness, it even has beauty, and it has an aloofness that comes from its being some three feet or SO above the level of the thronging sidewalk that it adjoins. Anciently a granary actually stood here, but the place long since came to be a crowded human granary instead; and what a roll of fascinating old-time names might be called here! Hancock, Sewall, Bellingham, Faneuil, Samuel Adams, Franklin (the parents of Benjamin Franklin are buried here), Cushing, Phillips, Otis, Revere! There are royal governors, patriot governors, signers of the Declaration, orators, leaders among the citizens - it would be a long, long roll! And there would be a strange unexpectedness if responses should come, for many of the stones in this graveyard were long ago indiscriminately changed about. At one time they were even tidied and set in rows to meet the landscape-gardening and grass-mowing proclivities of a city official! There was some mild objection to this, but nothing was done to check or correct the changing, and when, long afterwards, people began to speak strongly about it, it was too late, for records had not been kept. Although Boston thinks a great deal of the people of the past, they would seem to have acquired somewhat careless habits of caring for their remains. Gilbert Stuart was mislaid. Major Pitcairn was lost, and it was probably a substitute body that was sent back to England as his, to rest in Westminster. The stones on Copp's Hill were changed about or used for doorsteps. And here in the Granary the municipal idiosyncrasy has been even more striking. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who remarked of this graveyard, that the stones really tell the truth when they say "Here lies." But although this carelessness of the past needs to be known it does not affect the dignity, the solemnity, the impressiveness of the place. It merely means that the visitor must be content to honor these worthies of the past in mass rather than in detail. They are all there. They all lie somewhere within the broad enclosure. Upon their confused resting-places the tall office buildings look down, and beside them the public go hurrying along the crowded sidewalk. They are somewhere here, beneath the shade of the thickly clustered horse-chestnuts and honey locusts, and it really is not worth while to try and pick out the still properly marked graves from the mistaken ones. One of the two young duellists of whom Holmes wrote, who fought to the death on the Common, is buried here, and it is curious that this seems to be better remembered, by most people, than does the fact that here were buried SO many great and famous folk, although that young duellist has no claim to fame except that of dying in a duel which seized upon the imagination of the man whose personality permeates all Boston. A high, open, iron fence standing on a low, dark retaining wall, separates the burying- ground from the street, and the entrance is through a black and gloomy stone arch, with a http://www.kellscraft.com/BookofBoston/BookofBoston09.html 9/8/2005 Book of Boston: Chapter 9 Page 4 of 5 suggestion of the Egyptian in style, flanked at either end of the wall by a black stone pillar. It is pleasant to notice that with such a great area of office buildings looking down into this resting place of American dead, there is scarcely a business sign to be seen, although the opportunity and temptation are SO great. It is a fine example of business restraint. Indeed, one at first thinks that there is absolutely no sign at all, for it is only by carefully looking for them that two or three very little ones are found. From the Athenaeum itself, from a little high-perched coign of vantage there, a little outside summer reading-place which fairly overhangs the back of the Granary graveyard, the most striking of all views of the inclosure may be had, for from this point one looks down through the treetops on curving lines of little dull-colored headstones, standing shoulder to shoulder on the green dark grass, under the gloomy trees, like gloomy spirits of New England consciences forever looking out, with drooping shoulders, through the great iron fence, upon the passing of their descendants and successors. The Granary burying-ground antedates the church beside it, the fine old building, with Christopher Wren-like steeple, known as the Park Street Church. And one is tempted to think of this church as, on the whole, the most typically Bostonian building of Boston. On its prominent corner at the foot of the slope leading up to the State House, and with its windows looking out on one side over the Common, and on the other one the Granary ground, it seems as if it had grown there, SO natural it is, SO easy, SO graceful, SO felicitous, standing there in SO sweet a pride. The delightful spire is notable, not only for the perfection of its upper proportions but also in not rising from the building itself but, instead, forming the extension of a tower that itself rises from the ground, church and tower being connected by pillared curves, quadrant-like, which architecturally unite them into an indivisible whole, with no sign of separation. There could not be a more charmingly picturesque corner, for the Common, than is made by this SO charming and picturesque a church. For many years the building was painted, and even in its dull drab was attractive, but it has recently been vastly improved, as a number of other old Boston buildings have similarly been improved, by the cleaning of all the paint from the brick and by the painting anew of all the wood; thus restored to its original design the church now positively sparkles in its white paint and mellow red brick. Park Street Church is not SO old as are several others in Boston, for it dates back only to a little more than a century ago, but in its short life it has not been without claims to distinction; the first public address of William Lloyd Garrison was delivered in this building, and here for the first time the hymn "America" was publicly sung. Beneath the church are a gay-looking flower-shop and picturesque tea-rooms, and they seem pleasantly Bostonian in their churchly location, for until recent years a bookstore was quartered in the basement of the Old South Church, and I have noticed a furniture-packing shop http://www.kellscraft.com/BookofBoston/BookofBoston09.html 9/8/2005 Book of Boston: Chapter 9 Page 5 of 5 beneath a church at the foot of Beacon Hill, and it used to be, when the Hollis Street Church was standing, that its pastor, a powerful advocate of prohibition, used to deliver attacks on drink at the same time that the vaults beneath his feet were rented by three pillars of his church, distillers, for the storage of casks, giving rise to the still-remembered epigram: "Above, the spirit Divine, Below, the spirits of wine." The corner where stands SO felicitously the altogether attractive Park Street Church has itself given rise to a flash of real wit, especially notable as showing that Holmes did not utter every witty Boston saying. For this came from a certain long-ago Appleton, brother-in-law of Longfellow, famed as a humorist and bon vivant, a man of wealth and family but whose humor, still remembered reiteratively, usually - took some such form as sailing for Europe, without telling any one, on the very day that he was expected to be host or guest at a dinner. However, the corner beside Park Street Church really inspired him to one excellent jest. For it is a very windy corner, one of the windiest in all Boston, and Appleton dryly remarked one day that there really ought to be a, shorn lamb tethered there! Click the book image to turn to the next Chapter. http://www.kellscraft.com/BookofBoston/BookofBoston09.html 9/8/2005 Search the Photograph and Manuscript Collection Page 1 of 2 Search GENERAL INFO OLD STATE HOUSE RESEARCH GET INVOLVED EDUCATION Reference Services Details Page Search the Catalog Fellowships New Search I Advanced Search I Browse Terms Catalog Main Research Guides Photo Reproductions Back to List Donating Items Item Conservation Program VW0001/-#000902 Number: Collection Boston Streets photograph collection, ca. Title: 1855-1999 Item 000902 Number: Creator: Unknown Title: 10-1 Park Street from the grounds of the Massachusetts State House, 1919 Dates: 1919 Form/Genre:Albumen prints Description: Elevated view east-southeast from the grounds of the Massachusetts State House of Park Street at the intersection of Park and Beacon Streets. (Right to left) Flags, awnings and wrought iron railings adorn the facades of 1-10 Park Street, which face southwest. The Ticknor Building, located at 9 Park Street, is visible along the left side of the photograph, while Boston Common is included along the right side of the photograph. Buildings lining the west-northwest side of Tremont Street are visible at the far southeast end of Park Street. The Park Street Church steeple, located at the northwest corner of Park and Tremont Streets, is visible in the upper-portion of the photograph. A fountain, street light, wrought iron fencing and a statue of Daniel Webster are located on the southeast grounds of the Massachusetts State House. Automobiles fill both Park and Beacon Streets, and pedestrians are included in the photograph. A man adjusts the light bulb that tops the street light located on the northeast corner of Beacon and Park Streets. Geographic: Massachusetts --Boston (Mass.) --Beacon Hill (Mass.) --Washington Street Shopping District --Beacon Street --Park Street --1 Park Street - -3 Park Street --4 Park Square --5 Park Street --6 Park Street --7 Park Street --8 Park Street --9 Park Street --10 Park Street --2 Park Street --Boston Common Topic: Buildings --Commercial buildings Businesses --Flags --Awnings --Statues --Fountains -- Fences --Street lights --Parks --Commons Government buildings --Trees -Automobiles - -People --Pedestrians --Men -Steeples -- Railings Personal: Webster, Daniel --Ticknor, George Corporate: Notes: Ticknor Building built, 1804 http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/default.asp?IDCFile=/Boston/details.idc,SPECIFIC=873. 12/2/2009 MHs. Endicott tanily Papers. 1335.t. 22. (Text after 1816 letters) This house on Park Street, one of the best residences in Boston at that time, looking out west acros3 the Common, became my grandfather's home for the remainder of his life. His home following his marriage to my grandmother had been in Pearl Street and it was in Pearl Street that his and his wife's first children were born, my mother's older brother, Samuel Gray Ward, being their first child to be born in Park Street. My grandfather prospered so well during his connection with Mr. Goodhue that, with bad times threatening and having had experience of the dangers and uncertainties involved in the business of that period, largely still confined to long sea voyages and the risks connected with them, he decided to devote himself to the good management of what he had and to work of a public nature, to his own satisfaction and bringing him the regard of others. When Thomas Wren Ward began, late in life, as he tells in bis journal of that time, to gather together his early letters and papers, he found many lost, leaving the record fragmentary, with long gaps between. The following letters tell what little we do know of that period, including the attitude he had taken in his mature life on the subject of religion: Insert letters from TWW to Wm.Ward of Nov. 3, 1820, July 30, 1825 [GBDORR] OLD PARK STREET AND ITS VICINITY PREFACE BY THE development of Park Street, from the time of its origin in 1640 as a rude pathway leading across the ROBERT MEANS LAWRENCE, M.D. easterly part of the Common, through the present State House grounds to the Beacon, may be con- veniently divided into four periods. In the early WITH ILLUSTRATIONS days the pressure of bovine hoofs was doubtless an important factor in its maintenance as a well-trodden trail up the incline to the summit of the hill. The building of the Almshouse in 1662 marked the be- ginning of the second period, which lasted about one hundred and forty years, when Centry Street was BIEN lined with public buildings devoted to the care of the worthy poor, vagrants, and criminals. Space was also reserved for the impounding of stray animals. The third or residential period included practically the whole of the nineteenth century, when Park Street was built up with the homes of many prominent cit- izens. The houses numbered one to four, as also number nine, the Amory-Ticknor dwelling, were BOSTON AND NEW YORK built in 1804, and the others shortly thereafter. Some HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY of these were reconstructed wholly or in part by later The Riberside Press Cambridge owners in conformity with the Bulfinch style of ar- 1922 chitecture. Finally, within recent times, mercantile interests have acquired control of a majority of the vii Note: The definitive study of the location, residences, and family inter -relations lips of the) exceptional location. PREFACE estates; and the year 1907 marked the disappearance of the last resident on this street. Park Street Church was built in 1809 on the site of the Granary. Among the many to whom the writer is indebted CONTENTS for assistance are J. Collins Warren, M.D.; Bernard P. Verne, Esq.; Walter K. Watkins, Esq.; Miss Mar- BEACON HILL 1 garet Fitzhugh Browne, Miss Katharine P. Loring, BEACON STREET 11 Miss Jane L. Motley, Mrs. Charles H. Gibson, Mrs. THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF THE STATE Francis J. Moors, Miss Annie H. Thwing, Dean Rous- HOUSE 20 maniere; and Messrs. Charles K. Bolton, Alexander PARK STREET 24 Corbett, Jr.; Frank H. Chase, George Francis Dow, THE ALMSHOUSE 32 Edward Dunham, William Lyman Johnson, Julius THE TOWN POUND 37 E. Tuttle, Charles F. Read, George A. Sawyer, THE BRIDEWELL 39 Francis Manning, Andrew McCance, and William THE WORKHOUSE 41 THE PUBLIC GRANARY B. Clarke. 45 THE GRANARY BURYING-GROUND 47 NUMBER ONE PARK STREET 177 Bay State Road, Boston 51 APRIL, 1922 NUMBER Two PARK STREET 55 NUMBER THREE PARK STREET 58 NUMBER FOUR PARK STREET 62 NUMBER FIVE PARK STREET 64 NUMBER Six PARK STREET 69 NUMBER SEVEN PARK STREET 75 THE UNION CLUB HOUSE 79 THE AMORY-TICKNOR HOUSE - NUMBER NINE PARK STREET 81 REMINISCENCES OF PARK STREET, BY J. COLLINS WARREN, M.D. 98 PARK STREET CHURCH 115 ix CONTENTS THE ESTATES NUMBERED EIGHTEEN AND TWENTY ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF BEACON STREET 123 NUMBER SIXTEEN BEACON STREET 125 NUMBERS TWELVE AND FOURTEEN BEACON STREET 130 ILLUSTRATIONS THE ATHENEUM LOT - NUMBER TEN AND A HALF BEACON STREET 131 PARK STREET CHURCH AND PARK STREET ABOUT 1812 THE MOLINEAUX ESTATE 133 Colored Frontispiece THE BOWDOIN ESTATE 139 From a fireboard in the Collections of the Bostonian Society THE BROMFIELD HOMESTEAD 143 PARK, BEACON, AND TREMONT STREETS IN 1722 24 THE HINCKLEY MANSION-HOUSE 147 From an ideal sketch based on Bonner's Map and surveys in the THE SEARS ESTATE 152 City Engineer's Office, Boston. By courtesy of Dr. James B. Ayer THE LLOYD MANSION-HOUSE 154 THE PADDOCK ELMS 157 VIEW OF PARK STREET FROM THE STATE HOUSE 52 THE TREES ON THE COMMON 160 THE OLD GATE AT THE CORNER OF PARK AND TRE- THE GINGKO TREE ON THE COMMON 162 MONT STREETS 98 ULMUS CAMPESTRIS VENERABILIS 164 PARK STREET CHURCH ABOUT 1870 116 INDEX 165 From a photograph owned by Dr. J. Collins Warren Old Park Street and its Vicenity NUMBER THREE PARK STREET Robert u. Lowrexee, U.D. of John Sullivan, of Limerick, Ireland; and a son of Boston: Houghton Hifflin Co., 1922 James, who was Attorney-General of the Bay State in 1790. Richard Sullivan was a native of Groton, NUMBER THREE PARK STREET and a member of the Harvard Class of 1798. He served as an Overseer of the College for thirty-two PETER CHARDON BROOKS, a distinguished merchant years. He was admitted to the Bar in July, 1801; and philanthropist, of Boston, appears to have been but having an independent fortune, did not continue the first owner of this property. He was a son of Ed- long in the practice of law. During the War of 1812 ward Brooks, A.M., of Medford. Beginning business he was second in command of a cavalry troop, called as an insurance broker, he became President of the the Hussars, formed by the Honorable Josiah Quincy, New England Insurance Company. After holding the elder. The troop was well mounted, and their this position for several years, he retired. Mr. Brooks uniforms were brilliant and effective. "The members was also President of the Massachusetts Hospital were thoroughly drilled, and being under strict disci- Life Insurance Company, and a member of the State pline, they made an imposing display." Their dress Senate. In later life he was active in charitable work. included a short overcoat or spencer, which was left The estate passed from Mr. Brooks to Jonathan unbuttoned and thrown back, revealing a gorgeous Davis, merchant, November 10, 1802; and the latter vest; and their headgéar consisted of a square-topped sold it, April 25, 1804, to George Cabot, Esq., being hat, with tassels and a plume. During the political "a lot of land on Centry Street, now Park Street, campaign of 1807, when James Sullivan was a candi- near the Common or Mall in Boston." Mr. Cabot date for Governor, an article appeared in the "Cen- was a leader of the Federalist Party; he served one tinel" reflecting upon his character. Thereupon his year as Secretary of the Navy during the Revolu- son, Richard, waylaid the editor, Benjamin Russell, tionary War, and afterward five years as United on the street, and struck him with a cane.1 States Senator. He was one of a group of prominent On October 4, 1816, Mr. Sullivan transferred the men who contributed political articles to the Boston title of his Park Street estate to Lydia, the wife of newspapers of those days; his communications ap- Thomas Wren Ward, a well-known merchant; and pearing in the columns of the "Columbian Centinel." here the Wards made their residence for many years. In April, 1809, Richard Sullivan, Esq. (1779-1861), Mr. Ward was the Boston agent of Messrs. Baring paid Mr. Cabot sixteen thousand dollars, and became 1 S. A. Drake, Historic Landmarks. owner of the premises. Mr. Sullivan was a grandson 59 58 1816-1863, word family occupancy OLD PARK STREET AND ITS VICINITY NUMBER THREE PARK STREET Brothers & Company, of London. The following cor- bor, "six selected ears of our corn. If you have any respondence explains itself: with husks on, braid them up handsomely." 1 On March 12, 1863, Mrs. Ward conveyed the prop- 3 PARK STREET, BOSTON, September 16, 1852 erty to Augustine Heard, of Ipswich, a well-known The Hon. Daniel Webster, DEAR SIR, Mr. Thomas Baring will dine with me on merchant; and on November 30, 1895, the premises Monday next at five o'clock, with some of your friends were sold at auction, under foreclosure of a mortgage, and his; and we shall be honored and obliged by the pleas- to John Duff, the highest bidder, for sixty-seven ure of your company. thousand dollars. The latter's heirs retained the es- I am, dear Sir, with the greatest respect, tate until May 31, 1916, when it was bought by the Yours Warren Institution for Savings. The dwelling-house, T. W. WARD built in 1804, was razed, and the present handsome structure erected. Mr. Webster replied as follows: 1 The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster. Edited by Fletcher GREEN HARBOR, MARSHFIELD, September 17, 1852 Webster. It would give me sincere pleasure, my dear Mr. Ward, to dine with you on Monday, and to meet Mr. Baring. But I am stationed here by my Commander, Doctor Jeffries, in the recruiting service; and he bids me not to leave my post until I receive his official permission. Always very truly yours DANIEL WEBSTER Mr. Webster did visit Boston on the day of the Dinner, and he appeared at Mr. Ward's table during the dessert course, remaining but a short time. The next morning he returned to Marshfield. His death occurred there October 24, 1852. About two years before, Mr. Webster had written from Washington, D.C., to his farmer, Porter Wright, directing him to send Dr. J. C. Warren, Mr. Ward's next-door neigh- 60 MHS. Endicott Family Papers. B35.f. 22. (Text after 1816 letters) This house on Park Street, one of the best residences in Boston at that time, looking out west acros3 the Common, became my grandfather's home for the remainder of his life. His home following his marriage tc my grandmother had been in Pearl Street and it was in Pearl Street that his and his wife's first children were born, my mother's older brother, Samuel Gray Ward, being their first child to be born in Park Street. My grandfather prospered so well during his connection with Mr. Goodhue that, with bad times threatening and having had experience of the dangers and uncertainties involved in the business of that period, largely still confined to long sea voyages and the risks connected with them, he decided to devote himself to the good management of what he had and to work of a public nature, to his own satisfaction and bringing him the regard of others. When Thomas wren Ward began, late in life, as he tells in bis journal of that time, to gather together his early letters and papers, he found many lost, leaving the record fragmentary, with long gaps between. The following letters tell what little we do know of that period, including the attitude he had taken in his mature life on the subject of religion: Insert letters from TWW to Wm.Ward of Nov. 3, 1820, July 30, 1825 [G.B.Dan] File:TicknorHousel.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 1 File:TicknorHouse1.jpg From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DINI Size of this preview: 797 X 600 pixels. Full resolution (1,465 X 1,102 pixels, file size: 812 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. Description Ticknor House (left), Park Street, Boston MA. Photographer: Southworth & Hawes. 1858. 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This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (//creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TicknorHouse1.jpg 9/15/2012 Amory-Ticknor House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 5 Amory-Ticknor House From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Amory-Ticknor House in Boston, Massachusetts was built in 1804 by businessman Thomas Coffin Amory, and later owned by scholar George Ticknor. It sits atop Beacon Hill, across from the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Street and the Boston Common on Park Street. Numerous tenants have occupied various parts of the house through the years, including Samuel Dexter, Christopher Gore, John Jeffries, Harrison Gray Otis, Anna Ticknor's Society to Encourage Studies at Home, and temporarily in 1824, Lafayette. Contents Amory-Ticknor House, Park Street, Boston. 19th-c. photo by Southworth & Hawes 1 History 1.1 Architecture 1.2 Owners & tenants 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References 5 Works cited 6 Further reading 7 External links History Shortly after the house was built, its owner Thomas Amory met financial trouble and subsequently sold the property. The building was then "enlarged, and divided into 4 dwellings, whereof 2 had entrances on Beacon Street. The other 2 fronted on Park Street. [1] When Lafayette visited Boston in 1824, he stayed at the Amory house. "Soon after his arrival General Lafayette appeared upon the balcony above the entrance of the Amory mansion, to receive the greetings of the populace. He was escorted on either side by Governor William Eustis and by the former Governor John Brooks, each wearing Continental uniforms. On the evening of August 30, 1824, Lafayette held a reception in his apartments at the Amory house; and this function was attended by many prominent ladies of Boston. [2] "In 1885 the entire structure was given over to trade, and to-day it is the abode of many firms in various lines of business. "[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory-Ticknor_House 9/15/2012 Amory-Ticknor House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 2 of 5 Architecture Around 1804, architect Charles Bulfinch designed the entirety of Park Street, including the Amory mansion. [4][5] The building represents an example of Federal architecture. Its "enriched window caps" typify the style, with "a carved eagle in the center panel and a not-convincingly-well-done bracket of the inverted acanthus leaf type at either extremity of the cap, but with a beautiful thin cornice which, when repeated in a series of 5 windows forms a very beautiful feature. The original structure has been altered over time. Around 1885 it Interior, ca. 1885 was "remodeled Amory-Ticknor House, Park St., Boston, 1935 with 2-story Queen Anne-inspired oriel windows of black-painted pressed metal and fanciful dormers on the Park Street roofline"[7] and "a set of black metal shop fronts that reach out and down to the falling sidewalk "[8] By 2008, "the once great mansion stands barely recognizable, although the basic brick volume and Adam entrance portico with fanlight and curving granite steps (one half is missing) are more or less intact. Many ground-floor shop extensions have been added, along with Queen Anne-style oriel windows and dormers on the upper floors. Though out of character, the Victorian predations had a certain disheveled charm when they were filled with odd antiques, curiosity shops, and tearooms. "[9] Businesses that occupied the building's storefronts over the years have included Trefry & Partridge Jewelers, Ann's Breakfast & Sandwiches restaurant, Fill-A-Buster restaurant (now located at 142 Bowdoin St. on Beacon Hill), Au Bon Pain, a Cheers merchandise store, Curious Liquids coffeehouse, and currently No. 9 Park Street restaurant and a FOX25NEWS WFXT TV studio. Owners & tenants Fisher Ames Thomas Amory (1804-1807) Thomas Coffin Amory, Jr. Catherine Carter Richard Cobb (1831-1836) Katherine Dexter (ca.1816-1831) Samuel Dexter (1807-ca.1816) WFXT's news bureau in the Amory- Christopher Gore Ticknor House. John Jeffries (1806-1807) John G. Mitchell (ca. 1.1884, leased from Mrs. Curtis Burritt Raymond) [10][nb 1][11][12][12][13][14][15][16][17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory-Ticknor_House 9/15/2012 Amory-Ticknor House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 3 of 5 Harrison Gray Otis William Payne Mrs. Lydia Newell Osgood Raymond .1853) 2][18][19][17] Andrew Ritchie Matthias Plant Sawyer (1836-ca.1853) [nb 3][17][20] George Ticknor (1830 1871) Mrs. Ticknor (1871-18 |} See also Society to Encourage Studies at Home Notes 1. ^ Curtis Burritt Raymond, (June 18, 1816-February 23, 1893) was a native of Sherburne, Chenango County, New York. He was the son of Philander Raymond and Cynthia Rose. His father was the founder of Toledo, Ohio and the Brady's Bend Iron Works which opened at Brady's Bend, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania in December of 1839. He was also the great grandson of Rev. Blackleach Burritt. He attended the school established by Baron von Steuben at Steuben, Oneida County, New York, where he excelled in his studies, standing especially high in the classics. He was educated at the Polytechnic Institute at Chittenango, in Madison County, New York, and at Columbia College. After a period of European travel, and spending some time in Paris, France, where he became proficient in his French studies, he became a resident of Boston about the year 1844, and a member of the firm of Rice, Hall & Raymond, dry goods, at 54 Milk Street. In the Directory of 1839 his name appears as President of Brady's Bend Iron Company, 30 City Exchange. He became an early railroad investor and landowner and in 1854, he was an incorporator as well as a major investor in the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad. Mr. Raymond was prominent in military circles, and attained the rank of Major. He was well versed in the science of tactics, and revised Spencer's Manual for the First Corps of Cadets. This Manual, as revised by him, was afterward adopted for use in the Russian Army. He was also for several years a member of General Benjamin F. Edmands's staff. He was also placed in command at Fort Warren, Mass. Major Raymond also drilled several regiments of volunteers at the camp in Lynnfield early in the Civil War. An intimate friend described him as having "a wonderful memory, a superior mind and talents of a high order. He knew no fear, and his love of truth and honor and justice shone forth transparent in his character; while his amiable, gentle, sympathetic nature made him beloved by all and a favorite wherever he went. He was also an enthusiastic explorer, and lover of the White Mountains. In 1863 he first blazed the way along the trail which leaves the carriage-road at the second mile-post, on the Glen side of Mount Washington, and leads upward to the so-called Snow Arch. This trail was improved by him in 1891, and is known as the Raymond Path. 2. ^ Lydia Newell Osgood was born on August 21, 1821 at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and died on April 30, 1907 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Samuel Gerrish Osgood and Rebecca Noyes Follansbee and the adopted daughter of Matthias P. Sawyer. By his will, dated April 5, 1853, he bequeathed to his adopted daughter the mansion-house on the corner of Beacon and Park Streets. She was a descendant of Col. Moses Gerrish, who was born in 1656 in Newbury, and married Jane Sewell, the sister of Chief Justice Sewell of Massachusetts. Their son, Col. Joseph Gerrish (1682-1765), also lived in Newbury and was a member of the colonial legislature for 20 years. He also was elected to a seat in the Provincial Congress. His daughter, Sarah Gerrish (who was adopted by Judge Samuel Sewall) married Moses Newell, and were the grandparents of Lydia Newell Osgood Raymond. She became the wife of Curtis Burritt Raymond and were married in New York, March 29, 1849 at St. Thomas's Episcopal Church by Bishop Henry John Whitehouse. She also owned the Titcomb-Raymond House in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She and her husband were art collectors and patrons of the arts and part of their collection is now housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She and her husband were avid travelers and the earliest works in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory-Ticknor_House 9/15/2012 Amory-Ticknor House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 4 of 5 collection were accumulated from their trips to Europe which included 'Virgin and Child', by Antonio Veneziano, ca. 1380. Her collection included several works by John Singleton Copley, including The Return of Neptune, ca. 1754 and Galatea, ca. 1754. 3. ^ Matthias Plant Sawyer, son of Dr. Moses Sawyer and Hannah Little, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts July 11, 1788. At the age of 12, he moved to Portland, Maine for six or eight years, and then became interested in commercial affairs in Boston, Massachusetts, and owned profitable real estate. He was a very successful wine merchant, a railroad promoter and was a major investor in the Bradys Bend Iron Company in Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania. Mr. Sawyer never married; but had an adopted daughter, Lydia Newell Osgood, of Newburyport, who became the wife of Curtis B. Raymond. He died on March 31, 1857, at Boston, Massachusetts, and by the terms of his will gave to the city of Newburyport the sum of five thousand dollars (US$127,000.00 in 2009 dollars) the income to be used in the purchase of books for the Public library. He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. References 1. ^ Lawrence, pp. 81-82 2. ^ Lawrence, p. 95 3. ^ State Street Trust Company. Forty of Boston's historic houses. 1912. 4. ^ Ellen Susan Bulfinch. Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch, Architect. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York 1896; .314. 5. ^ http://www.unionclub.org/history.htm 6. ^ Joseph Everett Chandler. The colonial house, rev. ed. R.M. McBride & company, 1916; p.221. 7. ^ Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, James Z. Kyprianos. Downtown Boston. Arcadia Publishing, 2002; p.41. 8. ^ Lyndon, Donlyn. The City Observed: Boston: A Guide to the Architecture of the Hub. New York: Vintage Books, 1982, p. 24. 9. ^ Susan Southworth, Michael Southworth. AIA Guide to Boston, 3rd ed. 2008; p.3-4. 10. ^ MD Raymond, pp. 102-105 11. ^ Raymond, Marcius D., p. 31 12. Raymond, Marcius D., p. 32 13. S.Raymond, p. 14 14. ^ Hillstrom, p. 63 15. ^ Hillstrom, p. 64 16. ^ Day, p. 94 17. rabc Lawrence, pp. 83-85 18. ^ Hale, p. 82 19. ^ Hale, p. 84 20. ^ Burrage, p. 455 21. ^ Lawrence, p. 85 Works cited Burrage, Henry Sweetser. Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume 1. New York: Publisher Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1909. Day, Sherman. Historical collections of the State of Pennsylvania: containing a copious selection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, both general and local, with topographical descriptions of every county Publisher: G. W. Gorton, 1843. Dexter, Franklin Bowditch.Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the college history Volume 3 of Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History Publisher: Holt & Company, 1903. Hale, Albert. Architecture; Architecture, Colonial Old Newburyport houses. Publisher: Boston, Click the blue globe to open an Massachusetts, W.B. Clarke Company 1912. interactive map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory-Ticknor_House 9/15/2012 Amory-Ticknor House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 5 of 5 Hillstrom, Kevin. The industrial revolution in America, Volume 2 Publisher: ISBN 1-85109-620-5. Lawrence, Robert Means. Old Park Street and its Vicinity Boston: Publisher Houghton Mifflin company, 1922. Raymond, Marcius Denison. Gray genealogy : being a genealogical record and history of the descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass., and also including sketches of other Gray families. New York: Higginson Book Company, 1887. MD Raymond. Souvenir of the Sherburne Centennial Celebration and Dedication of Monument to the Proprietors and Early Settlers, held on Wednesday, June 21, 1893. New York: M.D. Raymond, 1892. Raymond, Marcius D. Sketch of Rev. Blackleach Burritt and related Stratford families : a paper read before the Fairfield County Historical Society, at Bridgeport, Conn., Friday evening, Feb. 19, 1892. Bridgeport : Fairfield County Historical Society 1892. Raymond, Samuel. Genealogies of the Raymond families of New England, 1630-1 to 1886. With a historical sketch of some of the Raymonds of early times, their origin, etc. New York: Press of J.J. Little & Co., 1886. Further reading Robert Means Lawrence. Old Park Street and its Vicinity http://www.archive.org/stream/oldparkstreetits1922lawr#page/n9/mode/2up)." . Houghton Mifflin, 1922 External links Historic American Buildings Survey (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ma0898), , Library of Congress. Amory-Ticknor House, 9 Park Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA. No. 9 Park Restaurant (http://www.no9park.com/) Retrieved from"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory-Ticknor_House&oldid=5018368347 Categories: Houses completed in 1804 Houses in Boston, Massachusetts Beacon Hill, Boston History of Boston, Massachusetts This page was last modified on 12 July 2012 at 05:19. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory-Ticknor_Hous 9/15/2012 N°2 Park Street HOUCHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Jabhishers Source: Clayton Harper. Email 10-25-17 Saved jpeg 2 Parte St. 10/25/2017 XFINITY Connect Inbox Dorr on Park Street CLAYTON 10:42 AM To eppster2@comcast.net 1 attachment View Open in browser Download Hi, Good to chat with you during your Arnold Arboretum event a few weeks back. I worked in the marketing department of Houghton Mifflin's trade division during it's last years on Park Street. No. 2 and 3 Park were internally connected on the lower four floors at that time, though they were offset by a couple of steps due to the slope of the hill. As I recall, most of No. 3 had lost its original character internally and was divided into a warren of small offices and early cubicles. My office was little bigger than a desk at that time, and shared a paper thin wall that bisected one of the third floor windows overlooking the Common. The top floor of Mo. 3 had a sort of solarium with airy windows that had previously been used as space for the Art department. By then it housed a dusty collection of 10-12 large file cabinets containing years of press clippings. It served mainly as a pass-through for Friday evening Happy Hours on the Two Park roof. We climbed out the windows to enjoy the views, the sunset, the steeple, and the cocktails! As promised, attached is a photo of one of the two identical bronze plaques that graced the entrance of No. 2 until the offices were moved to 222 Berkeley in the mid-1990s. It was given to me as a parting gift when I left HM after nearly twenty years. Measuring 20" X 26" X 1.5" and surely close to 60 lbs, it is a bit of a burden, but much loved. When the time comes I will find an appropriate place to pass it on - perhaps the BPL or Houghton Library at Harvard where many of the company's early treasures reside. Its pair is still in the corporate offices. Clay Harper, former Marketing Director, HMco 10/25/2017 XFINITY Connect Sent Re: Dorr on Park Street Ronald Epp 9:21 PM To CLAYTON Hi Clayton, Delighted to hear from you! I just returned to Pennsylvania from my other home in Simsbury CT, carrying with me the heavy Ellen Ballou Building of the House, the title you recommended when we met in Jamaica Plain. I was unaware of it and secured it through ILL and have made progress through the establishment in 1880 of HM at #4 Park Street, the property beside the Bulfinch residence that Thomas Wren Ward from 1816 until his death in 1858. His wife Lydia owned the property from its purchase date until she moved to Commonwealth Avenue in 1863 when the property then passed to merchant Augustus Heard; foreclosed in 1895 the property passed to John Duff whose heirs retained it until 1916, when according to Robert M. Lawrence's Old Park Street and Its Vicinity (1922), the property was razed by its new owner, a local bank. The historical record goes cold at this point and I hope to learn more from Ballou about the new #3 structure that you recall SO many decades later. I confess to something shy of an obsession with the history of Park Street and its residents. If you are curious about the origins of Park Row, Harold Kirker authored in 1969 The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch which includes architectural renderings of the properties both external and internal; Robert Shackleton's essay in The Book of Boston (available online) describes Park Street Corner. And of course you know well the wonderful Bliss Perry essay on Number 4 Park Street in his Park-Street Papers (1908). I recently uncovered the fact that Dorr's uncle Samuel Gray Ward was one of the founders of the Union Club of Boston, headquartered at #7 and #8, the location of the houses built for the Lawrence and Lowell families. These are just a few of the prominent Bostonians who resided on this strip of real estate that was held in little regard the decades before Bulfinch's efforts. In preparing the Jamaica Plain talk I uncovered new findings about the Ward and Dorr families on the periphery of the Common. I'm thinking about approaching the Boston Athenaeum about a talk there next year. I'd certainly like to incorporate the history of HM as well. Your recollections certainly are important to that end. Let us keep up the conversation. If you do not have a copy of Creating Acadia National Park, might I send you a copy? If so, please send address. Most appreciatively, Ron Sassanas DI. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net And: 124 Sawyers Path Simsbury, CT 06070 603-491-1760 On October 25, 2017 at 10:42 AM CLAYTON wrote: Hi, Good to chat with you during your Arnold Arboretum event a few weeks back. I worked in the marketing department of Houghton Mifflin's trade division during it's last years on Park Street. No. 2 and 3 Park were internally connected on the lower four floors at that time, though they were offset by a couple of steps due to the slope of the hill. As I recall, most of No. 3 had lost its original character internally and was divided into a warren of small offices and early cubicles. My office was little bigger than a desk at that time, and shared a paper thin wall that bisected one of the third floor windows overlooking the Common. The top floor of Mo. 3 had a sort of solarium with airy windows that had previously been used as space for the Art department. By then it housed a dusty collection of 10-12 large file cabinets containing years of press clippings. It served mainly as a pass-through for Friday evening Happy Hours on the Two Park roof. We climbed out the windows to enjoy the views, the sunset, the steeple, and the cocktails! As promised, attached is a photo of one of the two identical bronze plaques that graced the entrance of No. 2 until the offices were moved to 222 Berkeley in the d-1990s. It was given to me as a parting gift when I left HM after nearly twenty years. Measuring 20" X 26" X 1.5" and surely close to 60 lbs, it is a bit of a burden, but much loved. When the time comes I will find an appropriate place to pass it on - perhaps the BPL or Houghton Library at Harvard where many of the company's early treasures reside. Its pair is still in the corporate offices. Clay Harper, former Marketing Director, HMco https://connect.xfinity.com/appsuite/#!!&app=io.ox/mail&folder=default0//qj%7Bo5Xlp%7D 2/2 Paul Brooks From Two Park Street "A book contract is an Two both the author's and the author is committing his cherished offspring, turing forth must be not that of young, but that of the to Park sand and leaves them ii) The publisher is also acting of the book, faith in the 400mg instances-that the book "The author-publisher (par Street relationship is a professional sense of 'not purely commo It is compounded of friend patience, understanding, holding, prodding, rupiers against the rest of the world sound professional relationship 6-82054 A Publishing Memoir 4/22/2015 Park Street Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Coordinates: 42°21'25"N 71°03'44"W Park Street Church From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Park Street Church (founded in 1809) in downtown Boston, Massachusetts is an active Conservative Congregational church with 2,000 in Sunday attendance and around 1,000 members [1] at the corner of Tremont Street and Park Street. The church is currently pastored by Gordon P. Hugenberger. Contents 1 History 2 Today 3 Senior ministers (1811-present) 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links Park Street Church, Boston, 2006 7 Images History Park Street Church is a historic stop on the Freedom Trail. The founding of the church is predated to 1804 when the "Religious Improvement Society" began weekly meetings with lectures and prayer. [2] The society organized the charter of the church on February 27, 1809 by twenty-six local people, mostly former members of the Old South Meeting House, who wanted to plant a church with orthodox Trinitarian theology. The cornerstone of the church was laid on May 1 and construction was completed by the end of the year, under the guidance of Peter Banner (architect), Benajah Young (chief mason) and Solomon Willard (woodcarver). Banner took inspiration from several early pattern books, and his design is reminiscent of a London church by Christopher Wren. Park Street church's steeple rises to 217 feet (66 m), and remains a landmark visible from several Boston neighborhoods. [3] The church was the tallest building in the United States from 1810 to 1846. The church is located adjacent to the historic Granary Burying Ground. It had its first worship service on January 10, 1810. The church became known as "Brimstone Corner", in part because of the fervent missionary character of its preaching, [4] and in part because of the storage of gunpowder during the War of 1812. [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Street_Church 1/7 4/22/2015 Park Street Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Park Street Church has a strong tradition of missions, evangelical doctrine, and application of Scripture to social issues as well as a notable list of Firsts Edward Dorr Griffin 01 770-1837) served as the first pastor of the Park Street Church and preached a famous series of Sunday evening sermons attacking the New Divinity. [6] In 1816 Park Street Church joined with Old South Church to form the City Mission Society, a social service society to serve Boston's urban poor. In 1826 Edward Beecher, the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and son of Lyman Beecher, a notable abolitionist, became pastor of the church. On July 4, 1829, William Lloyd Garrison delivered his Address to the Colonization Society (http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp? document=562) at Park Street, making his first major public statement against slavery. From 1829-1831 Lowell Mason, a notable Christian composer, served as choirmaster and organist. The church hosted the debut of My Country, 'Tis of Thee, also known as America, by Samuel Francis Smith on July 4, 1831. [7] Park Street also played a role in founding the First "Homeland" or American Mission to the then Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii), where that church still stands; the Handel and Haydn Society started there. Benjamin E. Bates, an industrialist who founded Bates College in Maine in 1855, was a Sunday school teacher and active attendant of Park St. Church, 1904 Park Street in the mid-19th century. In 1857-58 evangelist, Charles Finney led a revival at Park Street which led the pastor, Andrew Leete Stone, to experience a spiritual awakening. Gleason Archer, a prominent inerrantist theologian was the assistant pastor of Park Street from 1945 to 1948, and his father, Suffolk University founder Gleason Archer, Sr., served as president of the Park Street Men's Club in the 1920s. In 1949 Billy Graham's first transcontinental mid-century crusade began at Park Street. Harold J. Ockenga, notable theologian and co-architect of the (Neo-)Evangelical movement was the senior pastor from 1936 to 1969, and during this time co-founded Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with Billy Graham, co-founded Fuller Theological Seminary, the National Association of Evangelicals, War Relief (which later became World Relief), and the Christian publication Christianity Today. In 1974, the church built a Church Ministries Building at 1 Park Street beside the main edifice. Designed in a modernist architectural style by Stahl/Bennett Associates with a concrete structure, window-walls and purplish brick facing, the building is described by the Boston Preservation Alliance as follows: "The Church Ministries Building Addition to Park Street Church breaks dramatically with its surroundings in style, while relating coherently to it in materials. The building rises with large panes of glass stretching across its narrow facade and handsome red brick covering the rest of the building. The ground floor is glass and looks out to the Granary Burial Ground beyond the building to the rear." [8] In the 1990s, the church purchased the 2 and 3 Park Street buildings from Houghton-Mifflin. [9] Today http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Street_Church 2/7 5/19/2020 1904_ParkSt_Boston.png (980x580) 11 AMT CHURCH with Parte St., 1904. Awning adorns former residence Thomas who resided and Lydia Ward, grand maternal parents of of DORR here now and then between 1858-1862. G.B 5/19/2020 Winter scene in Park Street, by John B. Heywood - Park Street, Boston - Wikipedia Winter scene, 19th century, Park Street More details Heywood, John B. -- Photographer - This image is available from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the digital ID G90F309_052F: digitalgallery.nypl.org digitalcollections.nypl.org 5/19/2020 John B. Heywood - Wikipedia WIKIPEDIA John B. Heywood John B. Heywood was a photographer in 19th-century United States. He worked in Boston, Massachusetts, C. 1856- 1861. [1][]]]]]]] Examples of his photographs reside in the New York Public Library[4] and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Stereoscopic image of the Glen References House and Carter Range near Mount Washington (New 1. Boston Directory. 1856, 1858, 1861 Hampshire) in the White Mountains 2. "Masonic Chit Chat." Freemason's (New Hampshire) monthly magazine (https://books.goog le.com/books?id=iv8qAAAAYAAJ). June 1858 3. Merrill D. Peterson. John Brown: The Legend Revisited. University of Virginia Press, 2004 4. "Name: Heywood, John B. (d. 1870 )" (https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/se arch/index?filters%5bnamePart_mtxt_s%5d%5b%5d=Heywood%2C%20J lohn%20B.%20%28d.%201870%20%29&keywords=&layout=fals). New York olic Library, Retrieved 27 August 2016. External links Flickr(https://www.flickr.com/photos/oclbishopcollection/3797907471/). Hand-colored daguerreotype of Nathaniel Holmes Bishop at age 23, credited to Heywood & Heard of Boston, 1860. Image gallery 4/28/2018 The Beecher Tradition : Edward Beecher AN AMERICAN FAMILY THE BEECHER TRADITION PREV. NEXT EDWARD BEECHER Edward Beecher was born in 1803 and was slated to follow in the tradition of his father. He graduated from Yale and studied briefly at the Andover Seminary. He became the pastor of Park Street Church in Boston, in 1826, and in 1830 he became the first president of Illinois College at Jacksonville. The college grew under his leadership and he remained president for fourteen years. The reform spirit took hold of Edward and he organized the first anti-slavery society in Illinois. He resigned his presidency in 1844 after financial misfortune; religious controversies and opposition to his anti-slavery beliefs made the offer of the position of Edward Beecher. Picture pastor of the Salem Street Church in Boston seem very courtesy of The Harriet desirable. He returned to the West in 1855, where he Beecher Stowe Center, became the pastor of the First Congregational Church Hartford, Connecticut. of Galesburg, Illinois, where he remained until 1871. See larger image. That year he moved to Brooklyn where he remained until his death. The Park Street Church was organized in 1809 and dedicated in 1810. From its beginnings it was missionary minded and it became known as the "Brimstone Corner" because of the highly charged doctrines which were preached inside its walls. NEST PREV 212 4/28/2018 Park St. Church eyes 2 buildings - The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) I HighBeam Research Follow us: Subscription benefits Log in HighBeam TM RESEARCH Search Reference works and and newswires Massachusetts newspapers 1 1002 Subscribe today Publications Research topics Save Export Print Cite Park St. Church eyes 2 buildings The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) The Boston Blobe December 1, 1992 DJerry Ackerman, Globe Staff I Copyright G+ Like 0 Tweet Permalink Members of Park Street Church will be asked to vote Sunday on a proposal to buy two buildings on Park Street now housing offices of Houghton Mifflin Co., the book publisher. The two structures contain about 35,000 square feet of space and face Boston Common. They are scheduled to be vacated in May when Houghton Mifflin moves to the year-old 222 Berkeley St. office tower. Peter H. Brown, director of administration at Park Street Church, said the buildings at 2 and 3 Park St. would be used for church programs. 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But while his dream 19/14 or achieved, Bulfinch could feel need Boston far along the path to PARK STREET one awaiting the architect as he morial column and the new State AND T H E COMMON non Street to the intersection of widened thirty feet in front of the it is one of those New England old sky, and the sun, setting over THE SOUTHERN SLOPE of Beacon Hill is still the finest sight on the new brick and fresh paint in Boston. In the Federal period, however, the area to e houses whose good proportions which Bulfinch next turned his talents, Park Street, was I clear light and set off to advan almost as attractive. For though Park Street was the child way to the Common. It is a mod of Beacon Hill, an offspring of the architectural and social impared to the London model, but mood imposed by the Province House descendants on Cop- architect's talent and the town's ley's former lands, it was not a stepchild. The street com- I America the scene was unique, manded a superb view: the Common stretching away to the nch could be content. He might Charles River seen through a screen of English elms al- ments of his own life in contem ready old at the time Beacon Hill was reclaimed from a , to his native place. pasture land. These elms, the special trust of Adino Pad- dock, were planted before the Revolution when Park was called Sentry Street and contained the almshouse, work- house, and granary. The town's affluent coachmaker, Pad- dock lived on a part of Tremont Street then known as "Long Acre." From the door of his workshop he kept a rest- less eye on the young trees which had survived the long voyage from England; his vigil, "Gleaner" recounts, often sending him flying across the street to berate idle lads for shaking the saplings. Paddock worried over the fate of his trees until the Revolution released him forever from that [ 164 ] [165] BULFINCH'S BOSTON PARK STREET AND THE COMMON anxiety. He was a loyalist who returned in 1776 to the mansions on Beacon Hill. The house was designed by Bu country where he and his trees originated. finch for the junior Thomas Amory, whose mother was The removal of the almshouse in 1801 and the disman- member of the Coffin family, which included the last R tling of the workhouse and the granary signaled the devel- ceiver-General and Cashier of British customs in Bosto opment of Park Street. With these grim buildings swept This was a dangerous post to hold in the brawling yea: away, a conspicuous property was suddenly available to before the Revolution, and the Amory homestead, far 01 Bulfinch and his friends then engaged in transforming the on the highroad to the Neck, was stoned by the Sons of Lil outskirts of the Common into the finest residential section erty. But the head of the house was actually a quiet loyali of Boston, Park Street, or Park Place as it was called for who took no part in the conflict and arranged the terms f several years, was laid out by Bulfinch in 1804 after he the British evacuation. For this service the elder Amor had secured a town ordinance restricting building there to was allowed to remain in Boston after the exodus swe] a uniform height and style, For once Bulfinch had every- away most of his wife's family. He was always suspecte thing his own way. The result was a handsome avenue of of being a Tory, however, and spent the critical war year related houses rivaling the architectural continuity of the in Watertown. The son, Thomas, Jr., was not so inhibited Tontine Crescent. (The first four dwellings were erected Like his contemporaries Thomas Perkins and Christophe at the southern end of the street and became popularly Gore, whose loyalist fathers also crept unobtrusively bac known as "Bulfinch Row." Concurrently, four more houses into Boston, Amory was prone to extravagance and wer were constructed in a similar design. But these additional bankrupt building the house in Park Street. The wine ce houses, Numbers 5-8, ascended Park where the street lar alone would have ruined almost any Federalist me: climbs steeply into Beacon and the same uniformity in chant. It contained a range of brick vaults constructed un roof and floor levels could not be maintained. Yet even der Beacon Street, the building of which was authorized though the last four dwellings lacked the symmetry of a special meeting of the Board of Selectmen. As it wa Numbers 1-4, Park Street was wonderfully all of a kind.¹ Amory moved in and out of his mansion in rapid succe The eight Bulfinch houses marched smartly up the hill to sion, receiving news of his bankruptcy a few hours befor meet the grandest dwelling on the block, the Amory man- greeting his guests for the housewarming. If Amory's ai sion at the corner of Park and Beacon (Plate 16). chitect was present at this macabre ceremony, Bulfinc Thomas Amory's house still stands on its enviable cor- commiserated with his ruined patron from firsthand ex ner, although in a state of indifference and neglect. Built perience.2 in 1804 at the height of the Federalist experiment, it was The mansion passed through a number of hands follow the first house constructed in Park Street and left no doubt ing the hasty withdrawal of its original owner. In 1806 as to origins among the neighboring intermediary family was turned into a fashionable boarding house by Mr 166 167 BULFINCH'S BOSTON PARK STREET AND THE COMMON Catherine Carter, who is said to have maintained some sixty guests, turning away twenty or thirty strangers a Common and north on Beacon Street and was occupied fo: day. One reason for the heavy demand was the proximity the last ten years of this period by the sometime Federalis of the dwelling to the new State House; during the legisla- politician and lawyer, Samuel Dexter. A close friend an tive sessions the capital town was hard-pressed to supply Harvard classmate of Bulfinch, Dexter served in the Con accommodations to the lawmakers. But Mrs. Carter was gress of the United States as a loyal representative of the not solely prejudiced in favor of politicians, one of her Essex Junto and was John Adams's secretary of war an treasury. When Jefferson took over the White House, Dex guests was the painter Edward Malbone. Perhaps to atone for the fiasco of the Amory housewarming several years ter retired from the national scene to pursue a law practice earlier, the residents of Mrs. Carter's establishment gave an in the more compatible air of Boston. He made one more "elegant and sumptuous Ball and Supper to a number of trip to Washington, however, when he represented the Ladies and Gentlemen of this Town" in the spring of merchants of Massachusetts in their attempt to have the 1806.ª Among the four hundred guests so honored was Ad- embargo declared unconstitutional, a hopeless endeavor miral Isaac Coffin of the British navy, a nephew of Amory's and just about the last task Dexter performed for the Fed mother and the son of a loyalist grandee who died shortly eralists. One of the mavericks who placed nation above before the Revolution. It was a symptom of the English ob- party during the War of 1812, he bolted Boston's sacred session of Federalist Boston that a member of an exiled cause to join the Republicans. But even before this uncom- family should be welcomed back as an honored guest. mon act Dexter showed his lack of stability, by Federalist Equally characteristic was the setting in which the exiled standards, in departing from his old party's invariable pos- hero was entertained: a Bulfinch mansion designed for a ture-drinking-to become president of the first temper- Province House descendant. ance society in Boston. His high-living cronies, men like Mrs. Carter and her family of sixty-odd remained in the Otis, Mason, and Gore, doubtless considered temperance as mansion hardly longer than the original owner. In 1807 great an evil as Republicanism. The pipes of Madeira and she carried her brood away to a new abode on Howard sherry exactingly stowed away in Boston ships, often cross- Street, close to the Bulfinch family stronghold of Bowdoin ing many oceans before reaching Bulfinch houses on Bea- Square. The Amory house was then enlarged and divided con Hill and Park Street, were an inseparable part of politi- into four dwellings with entrances on Beacon as well as cal dinners, described by Henry Adams as occasions when Park. The Park Street entrance was the one designed by "gout and plethora waited behind the chairs." Such meals Bulfinch, and the fine Adam porch and fan-light still re- were generally preceded by a devastating punch served main more or less in their original form. The most desir- in a great bowl, a trophy of the China trade. The Feder- able of the four converted dwellings faced west on the alists' hatred of Napoleon was reflected in the absence of champagne on their tables. I 168 I 169 ] BULFINCH'S BOSTON PARK STREET AND THE COMMON The course of Federalism and Madeira went unchecked sion, however, by building a splendid country house in in the second best of the four dwellings converted from the Waltham. Although not of the colonial aristocracy, Gore Amory mansion, the one next door to Dexter and running was allied to Province House families. His father was a loy- along Park Street. Utterly free of turncoats and prohibi- alist who departed in the British evacuation and lived in tionists, it was occupied successively by Fisher Ames, exile in London for ten years. Luckier than the other Bos- Christopher Gore, and Harrison Gray Otis's son-in-law, tonians who crowded the New England Coffee House on Andrew Ritchie. Even here, though, these early tenants Threadneedle Street or met weekly in the Adelphi, the sen- seemed to live under a curse imposed by the luckless ior Gore was permitted to return to the future Federalist Amory. And while this portion of the house subsequently capital, a decade before his son went to England as a com- became famous as a nest of Federalists, it was first briefly missioner to settle American claims under Jay's treaty. In the home of an old Tory, Dr. John Jeffries, who lived there the first years of his father's exile Gore remained in Boston, less than twelve months. The next tenant, Fisher Ames, impoverished but ambitious. Clever and popular, he was occupied the house only one year before dying in 1808. described by his contemporary, Anna Eliot Ticknor, as Ames's political career began at the same time Bulfinch "the young, beautiful, and excellent Christopher Gore." returned from his architectural tour of Europe. A tireless Thus endowed he had little trouble getting ahead. Joining worker in the formation of the Federalist party, he led the his fortunes to the Federalist party, Gore was admitted to battle to get the Constitution ratified in Massachusetts. the inner circle of the Essex Junto and was its successful Ames served in Congress during Washington's two terms, candidate in the gubernatorial election of 1809. spinning an oratorical web that ensnared even Republi- As it turned out, Gore's penchant for splendor was too cans. His political star soared so high that his neighbor much even for Federalist Massachusetts. His acquired Prov- Samuel Dexter, himself a fantastic orator, was forced to ince House traits, held in check during the bleak years of take a back seat. It was Ames who was chosen to make the his father's exile, could not be suppressed forever. Added supreme Federalist gesture-the eulogy to Washington to this were eight years spent in England observing the before the Massachusetts legislature. But Dexter had the munificence of the ruling class. Gore returned to Boston last word; he delivered Ames's eulogy in 1808. determined to live in the style of an English country gen- Fisher Ames was followed by another twelve-month tleman. His country seat in Waltham is indubitably a tenant, Christopher Gore. But Gore never felt at home in grand place; its magnificence won condescending ap- Park Street. He was SO exaggeratedly the Beacon Hill type proval from the visiting British minister, Sir Augustus that only the fact he was in England during the eight John Foster, who called it "a very handsome comfortable years the area was developed excused him from living next house." But Gore's pride manifest in his house and appur- door to Otis, Mason, or Perkins. He made up for this omis- tenances brought about his downfall. The house, isolated E 170 ] [ 171 ] BULFINCH'S BOSTON PARK STREET AND THE COMMON amid lawns and gardens, woods and meadows, even pos- sessing a "deer park," might have survived gossip if Gov- troops in Boston; the neighboring house was occupied by ernor Gore had not insisted on driving out for all the world Mrs. Arnold Wells, daughter of General Joseph Warren, the patriot hero slain at the battle of Bunker Hill. to see in an orange coach with footmen and out-riders in blazing livery. This flashy equipage, which caused only The Warrens were the one family on Park Street who minor rumblings in the politically "safe" town of Boston, probably scoffed at the coach that carried Gore to political boomeranged when the governor made a state journey ruin. Somewhat good-natured scorn, though, as Mrs. John through Massachusetts with a constellation of aides and Collins Warren was a daughter of Jonathan Mason, a cavalry. The wide-eyed but thinking farmers promptly Mount Vernon proprietor, who did not lag behind Gore turned him out of office in the next election. in his love of luxury. But two members of the earlier gen- But the occupants of the Amory house and their neigh- eration very much responded to the equivocal symbolism bors saw nothing outrageous about the bright orange of Gore's carriage. One was old Dr. John Warren of Revo- coach so familiar a sight in Park Street. On the contrary, lutionary fame, who lived in the house on Park Street with they rather liked it, and some of them, or their relatives on his son and daughter-in-law; the other was his sister-in- Beacon Hill, had carriages hardly less ostentatious. Family law, Mercy Otis Warren. Although both Dr. John and connections on Beacon Hill or associations with the Amory Mercy Warren lived actively through most of the Federal mansion were the key to Park Street. The crowding of rela- period, they were children of the Revolution. Neither for- tives of Amory house occupants into the eight Bulfinch got nor diminished the greatness of their respective broth- houses below was extraordinary. Number 8 was built by ers, General Joseph Warren and James Otis, even though Jonathan Amory, Jr.; Number 4 was the residence of the memory of these patriots was dimmed in an age epito- Amory's sister, Mrs. Jonathan Davis. Two of the houses mized by Gore's house and carriage. When Copley's son, were owned by members of the Gore family, although one the future Baron Lyndhurst, was in Boston in 1796, he of them, 7 Park Street, was occupied by Mrs. Artemus wrote home: "Shall I whisper a word in your ear. The bet- Ward, sister of Samuel Dexter. Another resident of the ter people are all aristocrats. My father is too rank a Jaco- street, William Payne, swept the gamut: his mother was bin to live among them. Samuel Adams is superannuated, an Amory and his sister Mrs. Christopher Gore. Only one unpopular, and fast decaying in every respect. ,,8 Evidently family figured massively in the early history of Park Street he did not meet the two Warrens, Mercy and old Dr. John, without associations in the Amory house-the Warren both of whom sat for his father in the days when Samuel family, the most distinguished residents of "Bulfinch Row." Adams's name was electrifying. These older Warrens were Number 2 Park Street was the home of Dr. John Collins a cut of the same cloth; they never relinquished the be- Warren, son of the brillant surgeon to the Continental liefs their brothers shouted from the halls and taverns of colonial Boston. 172 ] 173 BULFINCH'S BOSTON PARK STREET AND THE COMMON The early evolution of the publishing house of Hough- ton Mifflin Company is graphically presented in the chart on the following page. The Old Corner Book Store, founded in 1828 as Carter, Hendee & Company, became, successively, Allen & Ticknor, William D. Tick- nor, William D. Ticknor & Company, Ticknor, Reed & Fields, and finally the celebrated firm of Ticknor & Fields, which for eleven years carried on with great dis- tinction a combined publishing and bookselling business at the Old Corner. In 1865 the retail business was sold to E. P. Dutton & Company, and the publishing busi- ness, under the continuing style of Ticknor & Fields, was removed to I24 Tremont Street. Thirteen years earlier, however, an enterprise was initiated which was to become the solid foundation upon which the rising fabric of a great publishing house was to be erected - to wit: the founding in 1852 of The Riverside Press by Mr. Henry O. Houghton. a 428 THE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE Roger L. Scaife's 1902 window display of Mary Johnston's Audrey in the new bookroom at 4 Park Street. Cutting down on newspaper advertising, as Houghton, Mifflin now intended, was no way to keep authors happy. Many of them kept careful tab on the extent to which their books were being pushed. To a writer like F. Hopkinson Smith, news of Mary Johnston's handsome sales was infuriating. That his Caleb West had failed to approach her record even though it had been on the market two years was his publisher's fault. Mifflin, he believed, was ignorant of the fundamentals of his business. He was pocket- ing profits that should be spent in bruiting the works of F. Hop- kinson Smith. F. Hopkinson Smith, architect, engineer, and contractor, had become identified with Houghton, Mifflin in the 1880s as an illus- trator. Not until he was forty-eight did he attempt authorship, and then at Scudder's suggestion he prepared a text to go with some of his travel sketches. In those days he had protested, "I sorter kinder look on you all as my firm. My object is not to get money out of you or myself or anybody else. If anybody thinks that let them try E.B.Ballou. The Building of the Haese. Boston H.M. Co., 1970. Park-Street Papers. PY Bliss Perry. Bustm Houghton Mifdlin, Number 4 Park Street 1908. IN the days before the souvenir postal card was employed to advertise every corner of the globe, it was always a pleasure to receive one of those tinted cards decorated with a sprawling picture Follon 10 years as editor of some German town, and bearing a word of hearty German greeting. Gruss aus Heidelberg ! Or perhaps it was Jena, Munich, or Nurem- of Atlantic lemthly berg that furnished the cheap little picture and friendly word that wished you welfare and good cheer. How that pleasant custom warmed one's heart toward the far-away, thrifty city, and the old friends and old ways ! It refreshed one's memory better than any Baedeker, - that sim- ple, big-chested, deep-throated word Gruss! And it emboldens the Atlantic's Toastmaster to voice in similar fashion the salutation of the magazine to its readers. Greeting, Cheerful Readers all! Let it be a greeting from Num- ber 4 Park Street. [ 3 ] University PARK-STREET PAPERS NUMBER 4 PARK STREET And what and where is Park Street ? The halfway up the street, between the Scotch suit- Atlantic prints those words upon its cover, but ings and the Book Room. Poets often pass it gives no souvenir picture of the place. It is a with haughty and averted face, - the face of short, sloping, prosperous little highway in what the Temporarily Rejected, - and yet some- Rufus Choate called our "denationalized" Bos- times, on the Atlantic's publication days, they ton town. It begins at Park Street Church, on may be detected standing outside the show win- Brimstone Corner. (If you ever happened to dows of the Book Room, and reading their read, on a chilly Sunday afternoon in boyhood, names upon the fresh cover of the magazine with the sermons of the Rev. Dr. Edward Dorr that bland emotion of publicity which makes Griffin, the first minister of Park Street Church, the whole world kin. Park Street is a more you will perceive how Brimstone Corner won quiet abiding-place than the early home of its name.) Thence it climbs leisurely westward the magazine in the Old Corner Bookstore, or toward the Shaw Memorial and the State House the later quarters on Tremont Street. Even for twenty rods or so, and ends at the George within the substantial walls of Number 4, built Ticknor house, on the corner of Beacon. The as it was for a family mansion, and long iden- street is bordered on the south by the Common, tified with a widely honored name, the maga- and its solid-built, sunward-fronting houses zine used to flit upstairs and down like a rest- have something of a holiday air, perhaps be- less guest. Mr. Howells's tiny sanctum was on cause the green, outdoors world lies just at their the second floor; and many a delighted caller feet. They are mostly given over, in these lat- remembers that third-floor back room, looking ter days, to trade. The habitual passer is con- out upon the Granary Burying-Ground, where scious of a pleasant blend of bookshops, flowers, Mr. Aldrich was wont to mitigate the severi- prints, silverware, Scotch suitings, more books, ties of his position with an Irish setter and a more prints, a club or two, a Persian rug, - and pipe. then Park Street is behind him. As these words are written, the restless Number 4 is the round-arched doorway guest has settled down for a while in a spa- [ 4 ] [ 5 ] PARK-STREET PAPERS NUMBER 4 PARK STREET cious sunny room on a level with the elm- for instance, the view from these sunny win- tops. Once, at least, in its century-old history, dows. They look down upon the mild activities the room was the chamber of a bride. Here are of Park Street, to the left upon the black lines her initials, scratched upon the window-pane of people streaming in and out of the Subway, with her ring, while she was waiting for the car- in front toward the Common with its fountain riage to bear her to the church, more than forty that never flows and its Frog Pond gleaming years ago. Later, it was the nest of a quaint through the elms, and to the right toward the old pair of abolitionists, who, when the days of monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Is their warfare were accomplished, here lived out all this fairly typical of American life, - its work their lives in peace. Many pairs of eyes have and play, its resourcefulness and its careless- gazed into the plain marble fireplace, or out ness, its tolerant respect for the past, its post- across the treetops toward the open country, humous honors gladly paid to the leaders of without leaving behind them any memory or forlorn hopes? Or is it merely a view of Boston, sign. The walls of the room now speak of lit- something local, provincial; and our outlook erary associations merely. They are hung with from the Park Street windows, instead of sum- portraits of former editors, and with autograph marizing and symbolizing the American, the manuscripts of the brilliant group of writers human spectacle, is it only "Frogpondium"- who gave to the Atlantic its early fame. Yet as the scoffers have dubbed it - after all some human quality other than literary, some It is an interesting question, and one which touch of the ardor, the curiosity, the silent en- the readers of the magazine must answer for durance of the men and women who have lived themselves. Very likely they can determine, within the stout brick walls of Number 4, may better than any observer stationed at Number still be present here, secretly fashioning the for- 4 Park Street, whether the Atlantic is provin- tunes of the Atlantic of to-day. cial or national. Or rather, since every maga- Does this lurking genius loci affect the maga- zine is necessarily provincial in some sort, it is zine, whether its conductors will or no? Take, for them to say whether the Atlantic's provin- [ ] [ 7 ] PARK-STREET PAPERS NUMBER 4 PARK STREET cialism is of that honest kind which is rooted in to give expression to the best thought of the the soil, and hence is truly representative of and whole country, and an examination of the long contributory to the national life. rows of its bound volumes is the most convinc- Certain it is, on the one hand, that the Atlan- ing evidence of the cosmopolitan character of tic has always been peculiarly identified with Boston. "Our Boston magazine," Emerson its articles. In the earlier years of its existence, it is true that the majority of the best-known called it somewhat proudly, shortly after the first number was published. "Of Boston, Bos- American writers were living within twenty-five miles of the Massachusetts State House. These tonese," wrote a New Orleans critic the other day, - full of visionary ideals, impressed by authors, by reason of their unsigned, but easily a certain dogmatic scholarship, and when not recognized contributions, gave the magazine the reputation which it has been fortunate riding any one of its literary hobbies, pro- enough to maintain. But before the Civil War foundly intellectual." Other contemporary no- was over, the number of different writers for tices are not always so gracious in their iden- tification of Bostonian characteristics with the the Atlantic had greatly increased, and the "red- eyed men" - as Emerson called them-who traits of the Atlantic. The faithful clipping bureaus furnish a choice collection of denunci- examined the manuscripts which were sub- atory epithets, aimed partly at Boston, partly at mitted to it found themselves struggling, like their successors to-day, with a flood of black- Number 4 Park Street, whenever the politics and philosophy of the magazine are not such as ened paper from every quarter of the country. There is no longer any "literary centre" in our journalistic friends approve. Yet neither the original founders of the America. The publishing centre is New York, Atlantic Monthly, nor any of its conductors, but our writers cannot now be "rounded up" in have ever purposed to make it an organ of the old easy fashion. All of the greater Ameri- Bostonian or New England opinion. Its aim can magazines disclaim a special "sphere of from the first has been national. It has striven influence." They pride themselves upon their national quality, and fear the provincial note. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] PARK-STREET PAPERS NUMBER 4 PARK STREET The publishers of many periodicals have rea- Ohio, and Indiana." This is very charming. soned that the readiest way of acquiring the air But Poe, while assenting to the proposal, and of cosmopolitanism is to give their magazine incidentally borrowing from his new publisher the imprint of the commercial capital of the fifty dollars on account, balks at that ominous country. Witness the opinion of that shrewd- word Oquawka. submit to you," he replies, est of prospectus-makers, Edgar Allan Poe. 'whether it be not possible to put on our title- In the last year of his life he was invited by a page Published simultaneously at New York and Mr. E. H. N. Patterson to become the editor St. Louis- something equivalent." of a new magazine. In Mr. Patterson's judg- There speaks, with unashamed frankness, ment, "The Boston Reviewers are, generally, your seasoned editor and author. To live in too much affected by local prejudices to give Oquawka, and yet to convey the impression impartial criticisms; the Philadelphia maga- of being "Published simultaneously at New zines have become mere monthly bulletins York"! What a dream it is! And how it makes for booksellers." He therefore proposes to cowards of us all! The Atlantic, at least, owns found, under Poe's editorship, an "influen- to its Oquawka; it puts "4 Park Street, Bos- tial periodical" at Oquawka, Ill. "Oquawka," ton" in bold-faced type upon its cover, and he admits, "is comparatively an unimportant prints "New York" in diminutive italics. point, but I think that such being the case But rusticity will betray itself; your man would not injure at all the circulation of the from the provinces remains a provincial to the magazine. Here I can enjoy every mail end. Very possibly that lurking genius loci advantage that I could at St. Louis, being but controls the Atlantic, and makes it, not an All- thirty hours' travel from that city, and being American, as one would like to think it, but situated immediately upon the Mississippi, only a Boston magazine. In vain, perhaps, with daily connection with the Northern Canal does it summon men reared in Ohio, North and St. Louis, and directly upon the great daily Carolina, or New York to become its editors; mail line from the East, through Pennsylvania, in vain does it select its writers from every state [ IO ] ] PARK-STREET PAPERS NUMBER 4 PARK STREET in the Union. Doubtless the influence of the old be, with the characteristics of its physical envi- brick mansion, in the pleasant provincial street, ronment. An up-to-date journal has just re- pervades, like a subtle spell, every editorial act marked that "the venerable Park Street publi- of invitation, acceptance, or rejection. One can- cation has bats in its belfry." Very likely. But not escape it even by that simple device of put- is not its habitation just back of the steeple of ting a few hundred miles between oneself and Park Street Church? Do not its rear windows one's desk. Number 4 Park Street still keeps look out upon a graveyard, and its front win- its viewless, immitigable grip upon the fleeing dows upon that sorriest symbol of New Eng- editor. It gives him what the Atlantic's pros- land sterility, a fountain which has long since perous Christian Scientist neighbors call 'ab- forgotten how to flow? Isa mere magazine to be sent treatment." In vain does he mingle with luckier than the New Englander himself? He "common fowlers, tobacco-takers, and other too, poor soul, tries to be friendly with all the persons who can give no good account of how world, but he cannot learn that trick of the they spend their time"; in vain does he seat "glad hand," so easily acquired elsewhere. He himself at noontide upon some stump in the would like to be hospitable, but somehow his North Country, light an innocent pipe, and fountains do not spontaneously bubble with oil count the fish in his basket. Telegrams find and wine. By nature he is no hater of his kind, their way through; the very birds of the air and yet Heaven has placed him in a climate keep twittering of articles; Park Street and best described by Cotton Mather: "New Eng- "the traditions of the Atlantic" are with him land, a country where splenetic Maladies are still. The skies change, but not that habit of prevailing and pernicious, perhaps above any trying all things-even - the trout in one's bas- other, hath afforded numberless instances, of ket - by the test of availability." It is a case even pious people, who have contracted these of cxlum non animum. Melancholy Indispositions, which have unhinged Well, so let it be! Here is the Atlantic for them from all service or comfort; yea, not a better or worse, - stamped ineffaceably, it may few persons have been hurried thereby to lay [ 12 ] [ 13 ] PARK-STREET PAPERS NUMBER 4 PARK STREET Violent Hands upon themselves at the last. long after the fads of the present hour have given These are among the unsearchable Fudgments place to others. If ghosts of dead abolitionists of God." still haunt its sanctum, they are honest ghosts, If the Atlantic shares these inexplicable de- and will do the editorial policy no harm. And fects of the New England qualities, will not its if the outlook from its windows is only upon readers accept its greetings none the less? For Boston Common instead of upon one of the the Atlantic, upon the word of the Toastmas- great arteries of the world's trade, here, never- ter, means well. Jesting aside, it is mightily theless, upon the corner of that Common, is proud of its own little corner of the world. It something which far more than makes amends. has a stubborn affection for the simple ways of No magazine that has the Shaw Memorial be- the older American life. It loves the memory fore its windows can be quite indifferent to hu- of the gentlemen and scholars and men of let- man liberty, or be persuaded that commercial ters who once frequented Park Street. It is supremacy is the noblest ideal of an American housed more happily in the ancient Quincy citizen. mansion than in any tall office-building of Gath or Askelon. The skyscraper has not yet be- come the sacred emblem of America, nor has it been proved that the vortex of the mob is the best place wherein to observe and comment upon the growth of our civilization. Park Street is somewhat apart from the insane whirl which is miscalled "progress." Yet the magazine published at Number 4 somehow made a place for itself before the days of "commercial inva- sions" and "world records" and "Anglo-Saxon domination"; and it will continue to prosper [ 14 ] 9/21/2015 The Union Club of Boston - A Club History UNION CLUB OF BOSTON A Brief History of the Union Club Early in 1863, a group of Boston's intellectual and civic leaders formed a club to support the Union cause during the American Civil War. That was a dark period for the Union. In early 1862, General McClellan's campaign against Richmond was a failure. That summer the Union army was badly beaten at Manassas, and General Burnside was later ignominiously defeated at Fredericksburg. The elections in the fall of 1862 had not gone well and doubts began to rise in the North, not only about the conduct of war, but also about its very continuation. Issues such as the recruitment of African-American regiments and the acceptance of commissions in such regiments were among the debates which raged in Boston. It was in those dark days that the Union Club was formed by Bostonians who wished to support the Union and create a place where like-minded men could meet and converse. And this, Article I of the club provided unequivocally: "The condition of membership shall be unqualified loyalty to the Constitution and Union of the United States and unwavering support of the federal government in efforts for the suppression of the Rebellion.' The club's newly elected president Edward Everett had served as president of Harvard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Senator. The formal inauguration of the club took place on April 9, 1863. Dr. Everett made a speech, the delivery of which is said to have taken the better part of two hours. This preceded an equivalent effort at Gettysburg later that year. http://www.unionclub.org/history.htm/ 1/6 9/21/2015 The Union Club of Boston A Club History LONGFELLOW, EMERSON, AND DANA New club members today sign the same book preserving the signatures of almost five hundred founders and early members, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Robert Bennet Forbes, John Murray Forbes, Civil War Govemor John Andrew, Richard Henry Dana, and Oliver Wendell Holmes among them. United States senators, congressmen, Supreme Court justices, Massachusetts governors and jurists, Harvard and M.I.T. presidents, a United States president, ambassadors to the Court of St. James's, and mayors of Boston have joined eminent literary figures, China traders and members of the Boston legal and business community over the years to "maintain the old, esprit of this offspring of Eighteen Sixty-Three." The club continued from its earliest days to celebrate its Civil War heritage. According to a sketch of the club's history done in 1893, thirty years after its founding: "As the war drew to an end, the celebration of its closing scenes, and the presence here from time to time during the following years of those who had been its heroes, will be remembered as among the most interesting events in the career of the club. One need only recall the night of Lee's surrender and the receptions to Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Meade, Hancock and Farragut." FORBES, AGASSIZ, AND HAYES The Union Club did not exist, however, merely to perpetuate the memory of the Civil War. It was, indeed, from the very beginning, a club where people could relax, dine, and enjoy each other's company. In 1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson returned to the city with a visiting Scotsman after a busy day, and they decided to spend the rest of the evening at the Club. Emerson's guest, David McCrae, reported in his Americans at Home: "Longfellow was there; old Dana, the poet, with his snow white hair and patriarchal look; Oliver Wendell Holmes, sprightly, nervous, and lively; Lowell, with his classic head, brown curling beard and moustache, and hyacinthe locks; Hayes, the Arctic voyager, small black-haired with quick dark eye and resolute face; Agassiz, big, jovial, and ruddy; and Fields, the publisher, with one or two of his partners." These and others were men of great distinction in the fields of government, education, business, literature, science, medicine, and the arts. In the words of former club president Robert Montgomery, "It is an inspiring list. It has no parallel elsewhere." http://www.unionclub.org/history.htm 2/6 9/21/2015 The Union Club of Boston - A Club History Convivial evenings over the years have produced notable orations, odes, and debates ranging from the serious to the humorous. Historian Bruce Catton presented a significant speech on the occasion of the club's 100th anniversary. On a lighter note, a debate took place at the Annual Meeting of the club in 1951, on the resolve that the Union Club, having won the Civil War, should adopt another serious cause. Robert Montgomery, speaking for the negative, concluded that the only good and serious cause not already adopted by founders and members of the club was Temperance, and that since club members "were not men to despise the social glass or to refuse long potations when there were long orations that this is the very one that we cannot seriously adopt." Members' spouses have been welcome guests at the Union Club for many years. Women have been welcomed as members since 1980, and now represent about one-tenth of the Union Club membership. And SO club men and women continue to gather in the Granary, overlooking the graves of Paul Revere, Sam Adams, John Hancock, and Mother Goose, raise a toast to all who have preceded them, and then address the causes of the day." The Clubhouse, 1875 The property which is now 7 and 8 Park Street was originally purchased by Thomas Amory, and Thomas Handasyd Perkins, the "Merchant Prince," at public auction in 1801. In 1804, Charles Bulfinch, the State House architect, laid out Park Street, or Park Place as it was first called, in the place of the old Sentry Street. As a Boston selectman, Bulfinch had language inserted into town deeds requiring a uniformity for houses to be built on Park Street, and that they be "of brick or stone and covered with slate or tile or some materials that will resist fire." He was responsible for the construction of the houses known as Bulfinch Row at 1-4 Park Street, and for the Amory House built on the corner of Park and Beacon Streets. The Union Club is located on the site of the houses built for the Lawrence and Lowell families. The Lawrence side, at 8 Park Street, was built in 1809, and was acquired in the Fall of 1863, shortly after the founding of the club, from the family Abbot Lawrence, the head of one of the greatest American mercantile houses of the day.' GridleyJ. F. Bryant, architect of the Old City Hall, prepared alterations to the house appropriate to a club. In the 1880's Peabody and Steams added a floor and the elevator to 8 Park Street, and http://www.unionclub.org/history.html 3/6 9/21/2015 The Union Club of Boston - A Club History strengthened the walls of the old building. Next door, at 7 Park Street, Henry Gardener, the "Know Nothing" party Governor, had lived from 1854 to 1856. In 1869 the house was sold to John Amory Lowell, from whose estate it was acquired by the club. It was then demolished, and a new building designed and erected in 1898. Club member A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, was a distinguished grandson of the two families who once owned 7 and 8 Park Street. His mother is pictured as a child playing a harp in a silhouette in the Lawrence Room representing the family in its early years in the house which would become the club. Club rooms bear the names of soldiers of the Civil War, most of whom were founders or members of the club, and many of whom died in battle. Among those remembered are Colonel Norwood P. Hallowell (who was second in command of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw's famous 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, and who subsequently commanded the 55th Massachusetts Colored), and his brother, Brigadier General Edward Needles Hallowell (who succeeded Norwood under Shaw, was wounded during the assault on Fort Wagner, and subsequently assumed command of the 54th after Shaw's death on the parapets of that fort). The nobility of these regiments is recorded in the Robert Gould Shaw monument across the street from the club; John Murray Forbes, an early member of the club, chaired the monument committee. http://www.unionclub.org/history.html 4/6 9/21/2015 The Union Club of Boston - A Club History din Dia VIEW OF PARK STREET FROM THE STATE HOUSE Showing Ticknor House and the Union Club on the left and the sidewalk along the Common. Brigadier General Charles Russell Lowell, one of the Club founders, was commissioned as a Colonel in April 1863. About the founding of the Union Club, he wrote, "Clubs have, in all trying times, been great levers for moving events along." Married to the sister of Robert Gould Shaw, he was engaged in operations in the Shenandoah Valley with Sheridan, where he had thirteen horses shot from under him. He died in battle, in October 1864. Major General Charles Devens, whose portrait hangs in the Reading Room, was one of the Massachusetts lawyers who volunteered for the war. After his service, he was appointed to the Supreme Court, before becoming attorney general of the United States in the Hayes administration, and a member of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, where he served until his death. Major General Charles Jackson Paine was admitted to the bar in 1856, severely wounded at Port Hudson on the Mississippi in 1863, rescued by his African- American troops, many of whom lost their lives in the effort, and eventually returned to Boston where he participated in three successful America's Cup defenders, totally supporting the cost of the Mayflower and the Volunteer. These and others are commemorated by memorial plaques in each Club meeting room. The Andrew Room is named for John A. Andrew, active in anti-slavery efforts from boyhood, and the much-beloved Governor of Massachusetts at the time of the founding of the club. He provided key support to Lincoln. The Needham Room was named to honor Daniel Needham, Jr., who was its distinguished president at the time of his death in 1992. " Material for this brief history has been drawn from the club's "125th Anniversary History, edited by Crocker Wright and Asa E. Phillips, Jr.; from speeches to the membership by former Union Club Presidents John M. Harrington, Jr., and justice Paul C. Reardon; from an ode by Oscar Haussermann, Jr.; and from Richard B. Johnson's 1976 essay on the "History of the Buildings." Prints courtesy of the Boston Athenaeum. 5/6 http://www.unionclub.org/history.html AMC[sarah wyman whitman[1,1017,2,3,3,3,4,6,5,100,6,1]] (3-1) Page 1 of 3 Records 3 through 3 of 16 returned. Author: Houghton Mifflin Company. Title: Correspondence and records, 1832-1944. Description: 169 boxes (64 linear ft.) LC Call No.: MS 82-628 Notes: Records of Houghton Mifflin and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business. Includes a voluminous file of incoming letters, chiefly post-1870, from authors published by the firm; some correspondence with other publishers; a few compositions; and a small file of editorial correspondence of The Atlantic Monthly. Houghton Mifflin Correspondence (bMS Am 1925-1925.4) Houghton Library, Harvard University. Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Mass., traces its roots back to the firm of Ticknor and Fields, the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ticknor and Fields originated in the firm of Allen and Ticknor, established in 1832. The partners in Ticknor and Fields were William D. Ticknor (one of the partners in Allen and Ticknor) and James T. Fields, who entered the firm as a junior partner in 1843. After a series of changes, Ticknor and Fields evolved into Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The succession of corporate names was as follows: Allen and Ticknor (1832-1834); William D. Ticknor (1834-1843); William D. Ticknor and Co. (1843-1849); Ticknor, Reed and Fields (1849-1854) Ticknor and Fields (1854-1868); Fields, Osgood and Co. (1868-1871) James R. Osgood and Co. (1871-1878) ; Houghton, Osgood and Co. (1878-1880) Osgood and Co. (1871-1878) , ; Houghton, Osgood and Co. (1878-1880); Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (1880-1908) and Houghton Mifflin Co. (since 1908). Henry Oscar Houghton began as a printer in Cambridge, Mass. and established H. O. Houghton and Co. in 1852. Houghton's printing establishment on the Charles River in Cambridge was known as the Riverside Press. In 1864 he formed a publishing partnership in the firm of Hurd and Houghton. In 1878 the business merged with James R. Osgood and Co. as Houghton, Osgood and Co. Electronic finding aid available (545KB) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:F .Hough:hou00009 Unpublished printed finding aid available in the Houghton Accessions Records, 1999-2000, under *99M-43. 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I Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review Open Letters Monthly L an Arts and Literature Review Home About Contacts and Submissions Support OLM Search Home stevereads Park Street Papers! By Steve Donoghue No Comment PARK-STREET PAPERS BLISS PERRY Our book today is Park-Street Papers, a charming 1908 volume made by Bliss Perry, the sweetest-natured man ever to run the venerable Atlantic Monthly (with all due apologies to the shade of the almost equally venerable Edward Weeks, who ran a wonderful shop for a long time but who would have readily admitted that he could have fuzzy days just like plain folks). Perry helmed the magazine from 1899 to 1909 and was its genial "Toastmaster," writing signed and unsigned commentary and patter for every issue, dealing with the endless stream of authors who visited Number 4 Park Street, trying to keep the budget from flying apart at the seams, and maintaining throughout it all the disposition of a saint, often stealing quiet moments to sit and look out The Atlantic's big bow windows at the city beyond: They look down upon the mild activities of Park Street, to the left upon the black lines of people streaming in and out of the Subway, in front toward the Common with its fountain that never flows and its Frog Pond gleaming through the elms, and to the right toward the monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Is all this fairly typical of American life - its work and play, its resourcefulness and its carelessness, its tolerant respect for the past, its posthumous honors gladly paid to leaders of forlorn hopes? Or is it merely a view of Boston, something local, provincial; and our outlook from Park Street windows, instead of summarizing and symbolizing the American, the human spectacle, is it only "Frogpondinium" - as scoffers have dubbed it - after all? He himself was never in any real doubt as to the answer to that question, and the excerpt - from early on in Park-Street Papers, shows both how friendly his prose always was and how easy it was. He was fond - over-fond, perhaps - of those big, simple writing conceits that smarter authors tend to avoid: organizing a piece around the things he can see from his desk, organizing a piece around the view out his windows, organizing a piece as though it were a banquet - that sort of thing came ready-made to his hand. Most of the pieces collected in Park-Street Papers began life as "Atlantic Prologues" in the magazine itself. There are grinning tributes to the magazine, as well as several examples of Perry's strongest suit as a writer: long, loving profiles of authors. He writes with insight and affection about such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, and http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/park-street-papers/ 1/5 3/22/2016 Park Street Papers! I Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and he's at his best - in fact it's the best thing in this book - when writing about Francis Underwood, "The Editor Who Was Never An Editor," a quiet, unassuming man who was present at the legendary 1857 dinner party at which The Atlantic was created (these things seem always to happen over food) and who remained something of a presiding spirit there for many years. Perry was just such a presiding spirit himself, and although he only served for a decade, he did more than anybody else to PARK STREET PAPERS set The Atlantic's attitude, that curious mixture of serenity and agitation that has always characterized it at its best. His secret? Avoid the pointlessness of slavish imitation in search of a larger audience: The Atlantic has many competitors. The more the better. Each of them fulfills some public service peculiar to itself - even if it be only to serve as an "awful example." Each of them reaches many persons whom the Atlantic cannot reach without changing its character and aim. The colored illustrations of one, the unimpeachable innocuousness of another, the agility of a third in jumping to the majority side of every question, do not arouse the Atlantic's envy. Park-Street Papers brims with just that kind of quiet confidence, in the faith that good writing will always find good readers. Ironically, that faith isn't borne out by Perry's own writing (who reads Whittier anymore? Or Aldrich? Or Perry himself, for all that?), but it doesn't matter: the faith itself is the important thing. And if you're lucky enough to come across this merry, optimistic volume on the bargain carts of my beloved Brattle Bookshop (or, you know, the electronic equivalents), don't hesitate to spend the $3 - it's a glimpse into a publishing, writing, and editing world that no longer exists and whose like may not come again. Here lives again a list of authors whose names were once on the lips of every conscientious reader, and here also lives again a Boston of a cruder, gentler, slower time - also now gone, except for some of that remaining exquisitely reserved Yankee architecture. Tweet G+1 Like 0 Random Posts PETER ACKROYE Peaks P OR REAL TIGERS Horizon MARY BEARD ENGLAND MICK CONFRONTING THE CLASSICS OUNDATION ANCIENT DIE HARD (refresh random posts) http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/park-street-papers/ 2/5 10/26/2017 XFINITY Connect Re: Dorr on Park Street CLAY HARPER 8:54 AM To Ronald Epp Thanks for the offer, but I happily purchased a copy at the event - though I haven't yet had the opportunity to begin in earnest. During our twice annual Sales Conferences when the new lists were presented to the sales reps, the week was always capped with an Old School sort of formal dinner with roasting and toasting. During those "last days at Park Street" the company still had a few of the earlier patrician, polite "Gentleman's Club" traditions being kept alive in a friendly way by the Old Guard. Consequently, some of those dinners were held at the Union Club (or at the Club of Odd Volumes). Truly lawful food, as I recall, but it created in the younger turks like me a strong sense of the continuity and legacies of what was then still the largest independent publisher in the land (counting back through it's friendly merger with Ticknor & Fields and the Riverside Press in 1880). Paul Brooks, in his publishing memoir "Two Park Street", says No. 2 had been a Christian Science Reading Room, and a goldsmith shop before Houghton arrived. The architectural highlight was certainly the dark and clubby conference room adorned with beautiful (if fanciful) panoramic French wallpaper by Zuber et Cie called "Scenes of North America" - the very same to be found in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House. One of my former colleagues is a much stronger lore-master when it comes to HM on Park than I am, and I'm going to check in with him to see if he minds being included here - I'm almost certain he'll be delighted. Clay On October 25, 2017 at 9:21 PM Ronald Epp wrote: Hi Clayton, Delighted to hear from you! I just returned to Pennsylvania from my other home in Simsbury CT, carrying with me the heavy Ellen Ballou Building of the House, the title you recommended when we met in Jamaica Plain. I was unaware of it and secured it through ILL and have made progress through the establishment in 1880 of HM at #4 Park Street, the property beside the Bulfinch residence that Thomas Wren Ward from 1816 until his death in 1858. His wife Lydia owned the property from its purchase date until she moved to Commonwealth Avenue in 1863 when the property then passed to merchant Augustus Heard; foreclosed in 1895 the property passed to John Duff whose historical record goes cold at this point and I nope to learn more from Ballou apout the new #3 structure that you recall so many decades later. I confess to something shy of an obsession with the history of Park Street and its residents. If you are curious about the origins of Park Row, Harold Kirker authored in 1969 The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch which includes architectural renderings of the properties both external and internal; Robert Shackleton's essay in The Book of Boston (available online) describes Park Street Corner. And of course you know well the wonderful Bliss Perry essay on Number 4 Park Street in his Park-Street Papers (1908). I recently uncovered the fact that Dorr's uncle Samuel Gray Ward was one of the founders of the Union Club of Boston, headquartered at #7 and #8, the location of the houses built for the Lawrence and Lowell families. These are just a few of the prominent Bostonians who resided on this strip of real estate that was held in little regard the decades before Bulfinch's efforts. In preparing the Jamaica Plain talk I uncovered new findings about the Ward and Dorr families on the periphery of the Common. I'm thinking about approaching the Boston Athenaeum about a talk there next year. I'd certainly like to incorporate the history of HM as well. Your recollections certainly are important to that end. Let us keep up the conversation. If you do not have a copy of Creating Acadia National Park, might I send you a copy? If so, please send address. Most appreciatively, Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net And: 124 Sawyers Path Simsbury, CT 06070 603-491-1760 On October 25, 2017 at 10.42 AM CLAYTON wrote: Hi, Good to chat with you during your Arnold Arboretum event a few weeks back. I worked in the marketing department of Houghton Mifflin's trade division during it's last years on Park Street. No. 2 and 3 Park were internally connected on the lower four floors at that time, though they were offset by couple of steps due to the slope of the hill. As I recall, most of No. 3 had lost its original character internally and was divided into a warren of small offices and early cubicles. My office was little bigger than a desk at that time, and shared a paper thin wall that bisected one of the third floor windows overlooking the Common. The top floor of Mo. 3 had a sort of solarium with airy windows that had previously been used as space for the Art department. By then it housed a dusty collection of 10-12 large https://connect.xfinity.com/appsuite/#!!&app=io.ox/mail/detail&folder=default0/INBOX&id=419945 2/3 historical record goes cold at this point and I hope to learn more from Ballou about the new #3 structure that you recall so many decades later. I confess to something shy of an obsession with the history of Park Street and its residents. If you are curious about the origins of Park Row, Harold Kirker authored in 1969 The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch which includes architectural renderings of the properties both external and internal; Robert Shackleton's essay in The Book of Boston (available online) describes Park Street Corner. And of course you know well the wonderful Bliss Perry essay on Number 4 Park Street in his Park-Street Papers (1908). I recently uncovered the fact that Dorr's uncle Samuel Gray Ward was one of the founders of the Union Club of Boston, headquartered at #7 and #8, the location of the houses built for the Lawrence and Lowell families. These are just a few of the prominent Bostonians who resided on this strip of real estate that was held in little regard the decades before Bulfinch's efforts. In preparing the Jamaica Plain talk I uncovered new findings about the Ward and Dorr families on the periphery of the Common. I'm thinking about approaching the Boston Athenaeum about a talk there next year. I'd certainly like to incorporate the history of HM as well. Your recollections certainly are important to that end. Let us keep up the conversation. If you do not have a copy of Creating Acadia National Park, might I send you a copy? If so, please send address. Most appreciatively, Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net And: 124 Sawyers Path Simsbury, CT 06070 603-491-1760 On October 25, 2017 at 10:42 AM CLAYTON wrote: Hi, Good to chat with you during your Arnold Arboretum event a few weeks back. I worked in the marketing department of Houghton Mifflin's trade division during it's last years on Park Street. No. 2 and 3 Park were internally connected on the lower four floors at that time, though they were offset by a couple of steps due to the slope of the hill. As I recall, most of No. 3 had lost its original character internally and was divided into a warren of small offices and early cubicles. My office was little bigger than a desk at that time, and shared a paper thin wall that bisected one of the third floor windows overlooking the Common. The top floor of Mo. 3 had a sort of solarium with airy windows that had previously been used as space for the Art department. By then it housed a dusty collection of 10-12 large 10/26/2017 XFINITY Connect file cabinets containing years of press clippings. It served mainly as a pass-through for Friday evening Happy Hours on the Two Park roof. We climbed out the windows to enjoy the views, the sunset, the steeple, and the cocktails! As promised, attached is a photo of one of the two identical bronze plaques that graced the entrance of No. 2 until the offices were moved to 222 Berkeley in the nid-1990s. It was given to me as a parting gift when I left HM after nearly twenty years. Measuring 20" X 26" X 1.5" and surely close to 60 lbs, it is a bit of a burden, but much loved. When the time comes I will find an appropriate place to pass it on - perhaps the BPL or Houghton Library at Harvard where many of the company's early treasures reside. Its pair is still in the corporate offices. Clay Harper, former Marketing Director, HMco Park-Street papers : Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive a Park-Street Papers By Bliss Perry TOVT BIEN ov RIEN River,Mide Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1908 1/6 Park-Street papers : Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive PREFACE Aldricb, one of the vivid and delightful figures in the already shadowy line of Atlantic editors, was written immediately after bis deatb in 1907. / have also included in this volume, which begins Contents and ends with the Atlantic, a paper prepared for the Fiftietb Anniversary number, in November, 1907, dealing with F. H. Underwood, whose ATLANTIC PROLOGUES sbare in founding the magazine bas never received Number 4 Park Street 3 quite adequate recognition. Catering for the Public 16 B. P. CAMBRIDGE, 1908. The Cheerless Reader 30 "A Readable Proposition" 39 Turning the Old Leaves 52 THE CENTENARY OF HAWTHORNE 63 THE CENTENARY OF LONGFELLOW 105 THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH 141 WHITTIER FOR To-DAY 171 THE EDITOR WHO WAS NEVER THE EDITOR 203 arkstreetpapers00perr_0 1