Brattle Street (Boston)

Brattle Street, which existed from 1694 to 1962, was a street in Boston, Massachusetts located on the current site of City Hall Plaza, at Government Center.[1][2][3]

Brattle Street in Boston (1855)

History

Around 1853, former Virginia slave Anthony Burns worked for "Coffin Pitts, clothing dealer, no.36 Brattle Street."[4] Nearby, abolitionist John P. Coburn managed a clothing store at 20 Brattle Street.[5] In 1850, Joshua Bowen Smith, a black abolitionist and member of Boston's Vigilance Committee, operated a catering business at 16 Brattle Street."[6]

In 1921, the first Radio Shack store opened at 46 Brattle Street.

  • Detail of 1775 map of Boston, showing Brattle St. and vicinity
  • Shelton & Cheever, importers and manufacturers of "engine hose, fire buckets ... harnesses, collars, whips, carpet bags," 1852
  • Funeral of Abbott Lawrence, photo by Southworth & Hawes, 1855
  • Corner of Brattle and Court St., engraving by Winslow Homer, 1857
  • R. Marston & Co. Dining Rooms, ca.1881
  • Overview of Brattle St., ca.1920
  • Brattle Street, Boston, 1962
  • Brattle St., with steps to Cornhill, Boston, 1962

See also

References
  1. Boston (Mass.). Street laying-out Dept. (1910), A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston (2nd ed.), Boston: City of Boston Printing Dept., OL 16574538M
  2. Walter Muir Whitehill (1968), Boston: a topographical history (2nd ed.), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674079507, OL 21601121M, 0674079507
  3. David Kruh (1999), Always something doing: Boston's infamous Scollay Square (Rev. ed.), Boston: Northeastern University Press, ISBN 1555534104, 1555534104
  4. Boston slave riot, and trial of Anthony Burns: Containing the report of the Faneuil Hall meeting, the murder of Batchelder, Theodore Parker's Lesson for the day, speeches of counsel on both sides, corrected by themselves, a verbatim report of Judge Loring's decision, and detailed account of the embarkation, Boston: Fetridge and Company, 1854, OL 6948460M
  5. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2015). "Coburn, John P.". The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations. Routledge. p. 123. ISBN 9781317454168.
  6. "Universalist General Reform Association," Christian Freeman and Family Advertiser, June 7, 1850, page 2

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