Brattle Street, which existed from 1694 to 1962, was a street in
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, located on the current site of
City Hall Plaza, at
Government Center.
History
John Adams
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and his family lived on this street for a year in 1768, and in another house in 1770, before moving to
Braintree; he may have had a law practice in his house.
Around 1853, former Virginia slave
Anthony Burns
Anthony Burns (May 31, 1834 – July 17, 1862) was an African-American man who escaped from slavery in Virginia in 1854. His capture and trial in Boston, and transport back to Virginia, generated wide-scale public outrage in the North and incre ...
worked for "Coffin Pitts, clothing dealer, no.36 Brattle Street." Nearby, abolitionist
John P. Coburn managed a clothing store at 20 Brattle Street.
In 1850,
Joshua Bowen Smith, a black abolitionist and member of Boston's Vigilance Committee, operated a catering business at 16 Brattle Street."
In 1921, the first
Radio Shack
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store opened at 46 Brattle Street.
Gallery
Image:DockSquare 1775 Boston map.png, Detail of 1775 map of Boston, showing Brattle St. and vicinity
Image:Shelton BrattleSt BostonDirectory 1852.png, Shelton & Cheever, importers and manufacturers of "engine hose, fire buckets ... harnesses, collars, whips, carpet bags," 1852
Image:1855 BrattleSt AbbottLawrenceFuneral Boston Southworth Hawes MFABoston.png, Funeral of Abbott Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence (December 16, 1792, Groton, Massachusetts – August 18, 1855) was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He was among the group of industrialists that founded a settlement on the Merrimack River that would lat ...
, photo by Southworth & Hawes
Southworth & Hawes was an early photographic firm in Boston, 1843–1863. Its partners, Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901), have been hailed as the first great American masters of photography, whose wor ...
, 1855
Image:1857 EveningScene BrattleSt Boston byWinslowHomer Ballous.jpg, Corner of Brattle and Court St., engraving by Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in ...
, 1857
Image:Marston BrattleSt KingsBoston1881.png, R. Marston & Co. Dining Rooms, ca.1881
Image:BrattleSt ca1920 Boston BPL 08 02 001024.jpg, Overview of Brattle St., ca.1920
Image:1962 BrattleSt Boston byCRobinson HABS MA790.jpg, Brattle Street, Boston, 1962
Image:1962 BrattleSt Boston byCRobinson HABS MA1138.jpg, Brattle St., with steps to Cornhill, Boston
Cornhill was a street in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, located on the site of the current City Hall Plaza in Government Center. It was named in 1829; previously it was known as Market Street (1807–1828). In ...
, 1962
See also
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Brattle Street Church
The Brattle Street Church (1698–1876) was a Congregational (1698 – c. 1805) and Unitarian (c. 1805–1876) church on Brattle Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
History
In January 1698, " Thomas Brattle conveyed the land on which the meet ...
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John Smibert
John Smibert (24 March 1688 – 2 April 1751) was a Scottish-born painter who was the first academically trained artist to work in British America.
Career
Smibert was born in Edinburgh on 24 March 1688, the second youngest of six children of Ali ...
References
External links
Bostonian Society has materials related to Brattle Street.
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Streets in Boston
Former buildings and structures in Boston
1694 establishments in the Province of Massachusetts Bay
1962 disestablishments
History of Boston
Financial District, Boston
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