Horticultural Hall (1845-1860s) of
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, stood at no.40
School Street. The
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society, sometimes abbreviated to MassHort, is an American horticultural society based in Massachusetts. It describes itself as the oldest formally organized horticultural institution in the United States. In its m ...
erected the building and used it as headquarters until 1860. Made of granite, it measured "86 feet in length and 33 feet in width ...
ith
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Geography
Location
The Ith is immediatel ...
a large hall for exhibitions, a library and business room, and convenient compartments for the sale of seeds, fruits, plants and flowers." Among the tenants: ''Journal of Agriculture''; Azell Bowditch's seed store; and Morris Brothers, Pell & Trowbridge minstrels.
Events
;1840s
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Benjamin Champney
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exhibit
[American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1]
* Exhibit of John Skirving's "Panorama of
Fremont's Overland Journey to Oregon and California"
;1850s
* "Living specimens ... of mankind" from Iximaya, Central America
*
Harmoneons performance
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American Pomological Society
The American Pomological Society was founded by Marshall Pinckney Wilder in 1848, to foster the growing of fruit and the development of new varieties, and is the oldest fruit organization in North America.
Publications
The organization's primary ...
meeting
* 1854: Boston's first
Women's Rights
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Convention
See also
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Horticultural Hall, Boston (1865)
Horticultural Hall (1865–1901) of Boston, Massachusetts, was the headquarters of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in the later 19th century. It stood at no.100-102 Tremont Street, at the corner of Bromfield Street, opposite the Granary Bu ...
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Horticultural Hall, Boston (1901)
Horticultural Hall, at the corner of Huntington Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, was built in 1901. It sits across the street from Symphony Hall. Since 2020, it has been owned by Northeastern University. It is the current home to T ...
References
External links
* Boston Athenaeum. Lithographs:
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Horticultural Hall Boston : Published by
Henry Prentiss
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; Printed by
J.H. Bufford & Co.'s Lith., 1845.
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Horticultural Hall Boston :
Lane
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and
Scott's Lithography, ca.1840s
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Commercial buildings completed in 1845
Former buildings and structures in Boston
1845 establishments in Massachusetts
1860s disestablishments in Massachusetts
19th century in Boston