Hotel Boylston (1871-1894) of

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Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

, 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;

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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

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* 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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