Hotel Boylston (1871-1894) of
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 ...
,
, stood at the corner of
Tremont Street
Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts.
Tremont Street begins at Government Center in Boston's city center as a continuation of Cambridge Street, and forms the eastern edge of Boston Common. Continuing in a roughly so ...
and
Boylston Street
Boylston Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. The street begins in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood, forms the southern border of the Boston Public Garden and Boston Common, runs through Back Bay, and e ...
in today's
Boston Theater District
The Boston Theater District is the center of Boston's theater scene. Many of its theaters are on Washington Street, Tremont Street, Boylston Street, and Huntington Avenue.
History
Plays were banned in Boston by the Puritans until 1792. Bosto ...
. The architecture firm of
Cummings and Sears
Cummings and Sears (est. 1864) was an architecture firm in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, established by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears.
History and legacy
In the 1860s they kept an office in the Studio Building on Tremont Stre ...
designed it "in the Italian-Gothic style" as a residential apartment building. Among the tenants: New England Kennel Club;
Christian Science
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally know ...
Publishing Co.; and piano dealer Steinert & Sons and its 350-seat concert hall.
[Illustrated Boston, the Metropolis of New England. NY: American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1889]
References
Further reading
* S. N. Carter. "Recent Architecture in Boston." The Art Journal (1875-1887), New Series, Vol. 3 (1877)
* American Architect and Building News, June 13, 1885
External links
* Bostonian Society
Photo of intersection of Tremont and Boylston Streets c. 1890 (Hotel Boylston at right)
* Boston Public Library
Photo of Hotel Boylston
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Boston Theater District
Hotel buildings completed in 1871
Former buildings and structures in Boston
1871 establishments in Massachusetts
1894 disestablishments in Massachusetts
19th century in Boston
Apartment buildings in Massachusetts