Horticultural Hall (1845-1860s) of Boston, Massachusetts, stood at no.40 School Street.Boston Directory. 1852Horticultural 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 Massachusetts Horticultural Society erected the building and used it as headquarters until 1860.The society sold the property to hotelier Harvey D. Parker in 1860. cf. 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." Among the tenants: Journal of Agriculture;American Agriculturalist, July 1851 Azell Bowditch's seed store;Journal of Agriculture, 1851 and Morris Brothers, Pell & Trowbridge minstrels.Proceedings of the Bostonian Society at the annual meeting, January 9, 1900The building was "also known as Pell, Huntley and Morris Brothers Opera House January 1858; School Street Opera House, 1860; The Boudoir, 1861." cf.
Events 1840s Benjamin Champney exhibitAmerican Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1 Exhibit of John Skirving's "Panorama of Fremont's Overland Journey to Oregon and California"Peter E. Palmquist, Thomas R. Kailbourn. Pioneer photographers of the far west: a biographical dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford University Press, 2000 1850s "Living specimens ... of mankind" from Iximaya, Central America Harmoneons performance American Pomological Society meeting 1854: Boston's first Women's Rights Convention
See also Horticultural Hall, Boston (1865) Horticultural Hall, Boston (1901)
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Boston Athenaeum. Lithographs: Horticultural Hall. Boston : Published by Henry Prentiss; Printed by J.H. Bufford & Co.'s Lith., 1845. Horticultural Hall. Boston : Lane and Scott's Lithography, ca.1840s