Antique views of ye towne of Boston (1882) (14583563720)

Identifier: antiqueviewsofye00star_0 (find matches)
Title: Antique views of ye towne of Boston
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Stark, James Henry
Subjects: Dwellings Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston : Published by ye Photo-electrotype engraving co. ...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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g silk importing houses of Boston, and is, wcbelieve, still doing business in New York. The school kept by.John Ware in the second story was quite popular in its day. Ourrespected fellow citizen, Mr. Rowland Ellis, was one of itsscholars. Peeping around the rear corner of Joys building is seenthe sign of W. Fenno, of beefsteak memory. Uncle Fennoand hi< thrifty wife for many years managed the old Cornhill coffee-house in such excellent style that it became a popular resort as alunch house. There are some old citizens yet alive who retain ap-petizing recollections of the establishment. The building has noremarkable history, nor has anything noteworthy occurred withinits walls; yet it is one of those landmarks of Boston which arc sorapidly disappearing that in a few years nothing will remain to re-mind us of these old time architectural monuments. The generalappearance of the building was not much changed during its exist-ence and its walls, built by honest workmen, were so thick and
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ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 119 firm that they were able to withstand the pressure of a much higherstructure. The tenants of Joys building seem to have been welltreated and well satisfied with their quarters, judging from thetenacity with which they have clung to it. The late Josiah Good-ing commenced in the room now occupied by his son, in 1836.The late Uriah H. Boyden had a suit of rooms for forty years, andMr. Briggs, the architect, occupied his room for thirty-six years.Shortly before the death of the late Charles O. Rogers, he .pur-chased this estate with the intention of building the most completenewspaper establishment in Boston. Had he lived his ideas wouldprobably have been fully realized, for he was a man of rare fore-sight and executive ability. The Rogers building now being com-pleted will be an ornament to the city, as its predecessor was be-fore it. EXCHANGE COFFEE-HOUSE. This engraving was reproduced from Snows History of Boston,published in 1825, and t ho description from