Horticultural Hall (1845-1860s) of
Boston,
Massachusetts, stood at no.40
School Street.[1][2] The
Massachusetts Horticultural Society erected the building and used it as headquarters until 1860.[3] Made of granite, it measured "86 feet in length and 33 feet in width ... [with] a large hall for exhibitions, a library and business room, and convenient compartments for the sale of seeds, fruits, plants and flowers."[4] Among the tenants: Journal of Agriculture;[5] Azell Bowditch's seed store;[6] and Morris Brothers, Pell & Trowbridge minstrels.[7][8]
^Horticultural Hall stood on the former site of the
Boston Latin School (1812-1844). cf. Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1903
^The society sold the property to hotelier
Harvey D. Parker in 1860. cf. History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society., Boston: The Society, 1880,
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^Hayward, John (1847), A gazetteer of Massachusetts, Boston: J. Hayward,
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^Proceedings of the Bostonian Society at the annual meeting, January 9, 1900
^The building was "also known as Pell, Huntley and Morris Brothers Opera House January 1858; School Street Opera House, 1860; The Boudoir, 1861." cf. King, Donald C. (2005), The theatres of Boston, Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co.,
ISBN0-7864-1910-5,
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