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The Boston Aquarial Gardens (1859-1860) was a
public aquarium
A public aquarium (plural: ''public aquaria'' or ''public Water Zoo'') is the aquatic counterpart of a zoo, which houses living aquatic animal and plant specimens for public viewing. Most public aquariums feature tanks larger than those kept b ...
in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
Massachusetts
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, established by
James Ambrose Cutting
James Ambrose Cutting (1814–1867) was an American photographer and inventor, sometimes called the inventor of the Ambrotype photographic process.
He grew up in poverty on a farm in Haverhill, New Hampshire. At age 28, he invented a new type of ...
and Henry D Butler. The "conservatories
erefilled with rare marine animals imported and collected exclusively for this establishment; ... a perfect and striking illustration of life beneath the waters." The business was located on Bromfield Street in the
Financial District
A financial district is usually a central area in a city where financial services firms such as banks, insurance companies and other related finance corporations have their head offices. In major cities, financial districts are often home to s ...
.
In 1860 it moved to a new facility nearby, on Central Court, off
Washington Street, and re-opened as the
Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens
The Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens (October 1860 – June 1862) in Boston, Massachusetts, featured a public aquarium and zoo. It was located in the Financial District on Central Court (off Washington Street). On display were "hundreds of ...
.
[Winsor. The memorial history of Boston: including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, Volume 4. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1886]
References
Further reading
* "
Mrs. Partington Visits the Fishes". ''New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette''; Date: 08-17-1859
* Catalogue of fishes, mollusca, zoophytes, &c., &c., at Aquarial Gardens, no.21 Bromfield Street, Boston; Cutting & Butler, proprietors. In: Willem Theodorus Gevers Deynoot. Aanteekeningen op eene reis door de Vereenigde Staten van Noord Amerika en Canada, in 1859. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1860
Google books* Aquarial Gardens. Barre Gazette (Barre, Massachusetts); Date: 07-20-1860
External links
New England Aquarium The Boston Aquarial Gardens (1859 - 1860).
Image gallery
Image:1859 AquarialGardens Boston LC.png, Advertisement, 1859
Image:1859 AquarialGardens catalog Boston 1.png, "Catalogue of fishes, mollusca, zoophytes, &c. ... Cutting & Butler, proprietors," 1859
Image:1861 WinterSt map Boston Dutton BPL11002 detail.png, Detail of map of Boston, showing Bromfield Street, early 1860s
Image:1860 AquarialGardens BromfieldSt Boston.jpg, Advertisement for "the learned seals," 1860
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Former buildings and structures in Boston
1859 establishments in Massachusetts
1860 disestablishments in Massachusetts
Cultural history of Boston
19th century in Boston
Aquaria in Massachusetts
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