Amory Hall (Boston)

Amory Hall (ca.1836-ca.1872) was located on the corner of Washington Street and West Street in Boston, Massachusetts in the 19th-century.[1][2][3] Myriad activities took place in the rental hall, including sermons; lectures by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison; political meetings; exhibitions by Rembrandt Peale, George Catlin, John Banvard; moving panoramas; magic shows; concerts; and curiosities such as the "Nova Scotia Giant Boy."

Through the years, tenants included: First Free Congregational Church (ca.1836);[4] Grace Church (1836);[5] artists J.E. Johnson, J.C. King, N. Southworth, T.T. Spear, William S. Tiffany (ca.1847);[6] Oliver Stearns, retailer of artists' supplies (1849–1850);[7] artists J.A. Codman, A. Ransom, and R.M. Staigg (ca.1852).[8]

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Events at Amory Hall

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References

  1. ^ Boston Directory. 1852.
  2. ^ Illuminated and illustrated business directory of Boston for 1870
  3. ^ Boston Almanac. 1871
  4. ^ Bowen's picture of Boston, 3rd ed. 1838; p.167.
  5. ^ Bowen's picture of Boston, 3rd ed. 1838; p.160.
  6. ^ Boston Almanac. 1847.
  7. ^ Muller. Checklist of Boston retailers in artist's materials: 1823-1887. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 17, 1; 1977; p.63.
  8. ^ Bulletin of the New England Art Union, No. 1 (1852)
  9. ^ American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no. 4940
  10. ^ Joseph Edgar Chamberlin. The Boston transcript: a history of its first hundred years. 1930; p.50.
  11. ^ a b Boston Almanac. 1838
  12. ^ American broadsides and ephemera, Series 1, no. 5281
  13. ^ Whig Party. Proceedings of the Whig Meeting at Amory Hall, Oct. 10, 1838. Boston: 1838.
  14. ^ 1839 date is approximate. Cf. American broadsides and ephemera, Series 1, no. 5429.
  15. ^ Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series. 1971.
  16. ^ Bradley P. Dean and Ronald Wesley Hoag. Thoreau's Lectures before Walden: An Annotated Calendar. Studies in the American Renaissance, (1995).
  17. ^ Boston Daily Atlas, June 4, 1846
  18. ^ Boston Daily Atlas, Sept. 23, 1846
  19. ^ a b c d e f American broadsides and ephemera, Series 1
  20. ^ Boston Daily Mail, Dec. 15, 1847
  21. ^ Cynthia Griffin Wolff. Passing beyond the Middle Passage: Henry "Box" Brown's Translations of Slavery. The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring, 1996); p.30
  22. ^ Boston Daily Atlas, Jan. 9, 1851
  23. ^ Boston Daily Atlas, April 24, 1851
  24. ^ American broadsides and ephemera, Series 1, no. 16174
  25. ^ Boston Daily Atlas, May 5, 1852.
  26. ^ Dwight's journal of music, Oct. 2, 1852

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