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 Eastman 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]

Events at Amory Hall

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. 11.0 11.1 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. 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 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
  27. "'Pansy' and 'the Marchioness'". Boston Daily Globe. May 15, 1877. p. 2. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  28. Boston Daily Globe, May 19, 1877

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