Old Corner Bookstore

Old Corner Bookstore
National Register of Historic Places
The Old Corner Bookstore in 2008
location	Boston , Massachusetts
Coordinates	42 ° 21 '27 "  N , 71 ° 3' 32"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 21 '27 "  N , 71 ° 3' 32"  W.
Built	1712
NRHP number	73000322
The NRHP added	April 11, 1973

The Old Corner Bookstore is a historic building in Boston in the state of Massachusetts of the United States at the corner of Washington Street / School Street . It is part of the route of the Freedom Trail .

history

The Old Corner Bookstore in the 19th century

The building was built in 1712 by Thomas Crease as a home and pharmacy . In the same place previously stood the house of Anne Hutchinson , who had held her famous séances there in 1635 and had been expelled from Massachusetts in 1638 due to heresy .

From 1832 to 1865, William Ticknor founded the publishing house Ticknor and Fields in the building, which was later renamed after Ticknor had accepted James Thomas Fields as a partner. In the 19th century, the company was in parts one of the most important publishing companies in the United States and was a meeting place for well-known authors, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Charles Dickens and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The publisher had rented the entire building and only used a small part as a sales room . Other premises were also sublet. After Ticknor's death, Fields sold the building to EP Dutton , and the house continued to be sold to other publishers and bookstores.

In the 1950s the building fell into disrepair and was in acute danger of demolition in 1960, but was saved from it by a timely sale to Historic Boston, Inc. for a price of 100,000 US dollars . From 1998 to 2002, the building was home to a Boston Globe sales room , and from 2005 to its bankruptcy in 2009, the American jewelry chain Ultra Diamonds had a shop there. The store has been vacant since then , until July 13, 2011, when the Chipotle Mexican Grill chain announced an upcoming opening in the Old Corner Bookstore .

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

See also

• List of entries on the National Register of Historic Places in northern Boston

Web links

Commons : Old Corner Bookstore  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Freedom Trails Images. In: Start Here Boston.com. Accessed November 16, 2011 (Freedom Trail photos (here: Old Corner Bookstore)). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Old Corner Bookstore Building. In: Celebrate Boston. Retrieved November 16, 2011 . 
2. ^ Review of Old Corner Bookstore Building. In: Frommer's. Retrieved November 16, 2011 . 
3. ^ Edwin Haviland Miller: Salem is my dwelling place . a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Univ. of Iowa Press, Iowa City 1991, ISBN 978-0-87745-332-1 .
4. ^ Michael Winship: American literary publishing in the mid-nineteenth century . the business of Ticknor and Fields. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-521-45469-8 .
5. ↑ HBI Projects. Completed projects. (No longer available online.) In: Historic Boston Incorporated (HBI). Archived from the original on April 14, 2010 ; accessed on November 16, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Casey Ross: Building on history. Restaurant is set to be the latest tenant in the Old Corner Bookstore building, a site that has mirrored Boston's commerce and culture. (No longer available online.) In: Boston.com. July 13, 2011, archived from the original on August 11, 2011 ; accessed on November 16, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.