Tremont Row

Tremont Row (1830s-1920s) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a short street that flourished in the 19th and early-20th centuries. It was located near the intersection of Court, Tremont, and Cambridge streets, in today's Government Center area.^[1] It existed until the 1920s, when it became known as Scollay Square.^[2] In 1859 the Barre Gazette newspaper described Tremont Row as "the great Dry Goods Street of Boston."^[3]

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Thomas Gold Appleton
Austin and Stone's Dime Museum
Thomas Ball, sculptor^[4]
Hammatt Billings, architect^[5]
Boston Artists' Association
Comstock & Ross^[5]
Cutting & Turner, photographers^[6]
John J.P. Davis, daguerreotype artist^[5]
Dobson & Schumann, photographers^[7]
R.A. Dobson, photographer^[8]
John Doggett & Co.^[9]
Thomas Edwards (artist)
Marguerite F. Foley, "cameo cutter"^[10]
E.J. Foss, photographer
Miss Addie M. Gendron, photographer
Frederick Gleason, publisher
Mr. Gray, portrait artist^[11]
Harris & Stanwood, silver^[12]
Haven, Pierce & Co., shoes^[5]
Josiah Johnson Hawes, photographer
Heard & Moseley
John B. Heywood
Albert Gallatin Hoit
Charles Hubbard (artist)
William Hudson Jr., artist^[13]
F.A. Jones & Co. "Great Silk and Shawl House"^[14]
Joseph Leonard, auctioneer; Leonard & Cunningham^[5]
Leonard & Pierce^[15]
G.H. Loomis, photographer
Mayer's Confectionary^[16]
Mechanic Apprentices Library Association
Naismith Photographer
New England Art Union
William H. Oakes
Alfred Ordway
Pavilion Hotel^[17]
George P. Reed, publisher^[5]
Scollay Theatre
Sharp & Michelin lithographers
Southworth & Hawes, photographers
I.A. Wetherbee
Merrill G. Wheelock
Moses Wight, artist

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Detail of map of Boston in 1838, showing Tremont Row.
Advertisement for Tuttle & Oakes boots and shoes, 1848
Advertisement for Southworth & Hawes, daguerreotypists, 1848
Brattle Street, looking up towards Tremont Row, c. 1860s (Bostonian Society)
Advertisement for J.S. Hunt & Co. detective office, 1868
Theatre Comique, Tremont Row, Boston, c. 1916

Scollay Square

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Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910
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"Tremont Row now Scollay Sq.: eleventh name in its history." Boston Globe, Feb. 20, 1926
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Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), May 27, 1859
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"Portrait of Gov. Briggs." Daily Atlas, Feb. 3, 1844
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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
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Farmer's Cabinet (Amherst NH), Aug. 5, 1857
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The Boston Directory, 1895, page 420
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The Boston Directory, 1897, page 449
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Boston Directory, 1840
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The Crayon, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr., 1858)
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Daily Atlas, April 24, 1843
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Salem Gazette, March 16, 1841
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Daily Atlas, Jan. 1, 1845
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Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), Nov. 18, 1853
[15]
"The paintings in Tremont Row." Daily Atlas, June 2, 1852
[16]
"Chinese Azalia." Boston Daily Atlas, April 23, 1844
[17]
"The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston, an exhibition at the Boston Public Library, December 17, 2009 - March 31, 2010". 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2012.

"Tremont Row". Boston Register and Business Directory. Sampson & Murdock Co. 1914. hdl:2027/hvd.hn4fl3 – via HathiTrust.
"Tremont Row". Boston Register and Business Directory. Sampson & Murdock. 1918 – via Google Books.
"Tremont Row". Boston Register and Business Directory. Sampson & Murdock Co. 1921.

Bostonian Society. Photos:
Library of Congress:

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[1] [1]
Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910

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"Tremont Row now Scollay Sq.: eleventh name in its history." Boston Globe, Feb. 20, 1926

[3] [3]
Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), May 27, 1859

[4] [4]
"Portrait of Gov. Briggs." Daily Atlas, Feb. 3, 1844

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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1

[6] [6]
Farmer's Cabinet (Amherst NH), Aug. 5, 1857

[7] [7]
The Boston Directory, 1895, page 420

[8] [8]
The Boston Directory, 1897, page 449

[9] [9]
Boston Directory, 1840

[10] [10]
The Crayon, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr., 1858)

[11] [11]
Daily Atlas, April 24, 1843

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Salem Gazette, March 16, 1841

[13] [13]
Daily Atlas, Jan. 1, 1845

[14] [14]
Barre Gazette (Barre, Mass.), Nov. 18, 1853

[15] [15]
"The paintings in Tremont Row." Daily Atlas, June 2, 1852

[16] [16]
"Chinese Azalia." Boston Daily Atlas, April 23, 1844

[17] [17]
"The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston, an exhibition at the Boston Public Library, December 17, 2009 - March 31, 2010". 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2012.

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