Winter Street 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 ...
,
is located between
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
Washington Street, near the
Common
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Places
* Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
* Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts
* Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Clapham Common, originally com ...
. It is currently a
pedestrian zone
Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in whi ...
. Prior to 1708, it was called Blott's Lane and then Bannister's Lane.. It was also known at times as "Winer Street."
See also
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Downtown Crossing
Downtown Crossing is a shopping district within downtown Boston, Massachusetts, located east of Boston Common, west of the Financial District, south of Government Center, and north of Chinatown and the old Combat Zone. It features large ...
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Boston Music Hall
The Boston Music Hall was a concert hall located on Winter Street in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional entrance on Hamilton Place.
One of the oldest continuously operating theaters in the United States, it was built in 1852 and was the ...
;Former tenants
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M.M. Ballou, publisher
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Deloss Barnum, photographer
* Central Church
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Walter Lofthouse Dean
Walter Lofthouse Dean (June 4, 1854 – March 13, 1912) was an American marine painter, commodore of the Boston Yacht Club and Vice President of the Boston Art Club. While Dean is primarily known for marine paintings from the Boston, Massachuse ...
, 3 Winter Street, painter
["Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Volumes 1–3," by Corcoran Gallery of Art]
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Draper & Folsom __NOTOC__
Draper & Folsom (ca.1778–1783) were publishers in Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. They printed works by William Billings
William Billings (October 7, 1746 – September 26, 1800) is regarded as the first A ...
, publishers
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Fadettes of Boston
The Fadettes of Boston (1888-ca.1920) was an all-women orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, and directed by Caroline B. Nichols. "The original group of six expanded to twenty by 1898"Judith Tick. "Women as Professional Musicians in the United ...
*
Gilchrist's
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, name = Gilchrist's.
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, foundation = 1842
, defunct = 1977
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, industry = Retail
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store
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A.N. Hardy, photographer
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Josiah Leavitt
Josiah Leavitt (1744–1804) was an early Massachusetts physician and inventor. Possessed of an early love for mechanical movements and for music, Dr. Leavitt eventually gave up his medical practice and moved to Boston, where he became one of the ...
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New England Emigrant Aid Company
The New England Emigrant Aid Company (originally the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company) was a transportation company founded in Boston, Massachusetts by activist Eli Thayer in the wake of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed the population of ...
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''Polyanthos''
* Henry and
John Christian Rauschner
John Christian Rauschner (born 1760) was a German artist who specialized in portraits made of wax. He worked for some time in the United States, travelling to Boston, New York City
New York, often called New York Cit ...
, portraitists
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Schoenhof & Moeller __NOTOC__
Carl Schoenhof (c. 1843 – 1911) was a bookseller and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He specialized in foreign books. Born in Carlsruhe, Germany, he attended University of Heidelberg. He moved to the U. States a ...
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S.R. Urbino, foreign books
References
Image gallery
Image:1743 BostonCommon map WilliamPrice.png, Detail of 1743 map of Boston, showing Winter St. and vicinity
Image:1767 Grayham WinterSt BostonNewsLetter 10April.png, Ann Grayham, importer & retailer, 1767
Image:1768 Greenleaf WinterSt BostonEveningPost June6.png, "Very neat green and blue umbrilloes, to be sold exceeding low, by Oliver Greenleaf," 1768 ('' Boston Evening-Post'')
Image:CentralCongregational WinterSt Boston HomansSketches1851.jpg, Central Congregational Church, c. 1851
Image:Atlantic Monthly 1857.png, Atlantic Monthly
''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
, no.1, 1857; published by Phillips, Sampson & Co., 13 Winter St.
Image:Lyon Parasols WinterSt BostonDirectory 1861.png, Joseph Lyon's "umbrellas, parasols, canes, etc.," 1861
Image:1870 Crape Lace WinterSt Boston.png, New England Crape and Lace Refinishing Co., c. 1870
Image:2010 WinterSt Boston.jpg, Winter Street, Boston, March 2010
Streets in Boston
History of Boston
Financial District, Boston
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