Devonshire Street; una raccolta di fatti e incidenti insieme a riproduzioni di illustrazioni relative ad una vecchia strada di Boston. Upplied withMadeira, Olanda e Giamaica, a cui si poteva servire se stesso, stava in un salotto posteriore, e su di esso in vista semplice era un piccolo riquadro intoche gli assetati potevano mettere l'equivalente di denaro del suo piccolo punto di contatto. Anche qui, gli eleganti dei primi anni vittoriani si sono agati per pettegolezzi mentre hanno tudddled i loro nasi da snuff-box di modelli antichi e costosi. La vecchia signora spostò l'eremaio e gli effetti personali in Province Street quando il vicolo si allargò, e perse th

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Devonshire street; a collection of facts and incidents together with reproductions of illustrations pertaining to an Old Boston street . upplied withMadeira, Holland, and Jamaica, at which one could serve himself, stood in a rear parlor, and on it in plain view was a little box intowhich the thirsty could put the money equivalent of his smallnip. Here, too, the fashionables of the early Victorian eragathered to gossip while they tuddled their noses from snuff-boxes of ancient and costly patterns. The old lady moved hershop and belongings to Province Street when the alley waswidened, and lost thereby nearly all her trade. The east cornerof the alley, at the corner of Milk Street, was at the close of theRevolution the property of Joseph Shed, a shopkeeper, wholived in a large three-story wooden house, and next to him in asmall wooden house lived his son Joseph, a provision dealer. The academy of Benjamin Dearborn, the son of a physicianof Portsmouth, N.H., was on the west side of Theatre Alley, nearMilk. Dearborn had learned the printing trade, but, preferringto teach, opened a school in Portsmouth, and finally about 1790. SHOWING THE PRESENT SITE OF THE POST-OFFICE AT THE LEFT. AND ANN HIBBINSS CORNER, NOW OCCUPIED BY THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK, ON THE RIGHT 44 DEVONSHIRE STREET came to Boston, buying of James Wakefield, a printer, a largethree story wooden house on Milk Street and ten thousand squarefeet of land, two hundred and seventy-five feet of which borderedthe west side of Theatre Alley. Dearborn conducted for a whilethe academy on Theatre Alley as a day school, but in 1793 heopened also an evening school for young men. He published theColumbian Grammar, the Perpetual Diary, and the Leni-ent System. Among the inventions which occupied his leisuretime was a spring balance which was so successful that soonafter 1805 he turned his academy into a factory for makingbalances. He ran the factory on Theatre Alley until 1813, when he established himself on Front Street, n

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1910
• booksubjectstreets
• bookyear1912