Identifier: walkstalksabout00mann (find matches)
Title: Walks & talks about historic Boston .
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Mann, Albert William, 1841-
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Massachusetts Boston Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Mann publishing co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cis Skinner,Henry Gassett. Jacob Hall. Charles Well and John L. Gard-ner. It was surely a worthy list of names. In his speech Edward Everett said. I will, with yourleave, propose a toast: The Memory of Columbus! Thefather of American travelers who thought the world toonarrow for him even before he was sure there was any other,who crossed the unknown Atlantic for a trip of pleasure anddiscovered a new continent for his w-atering place. In the days of Dwight Bovden and lohn L. Tucker, the Walks and Talks About Historic Boston. 533 service in the dining- room was as elaborate as the steps andfigure in an old fashioned minuet. When this hotel was builtit was the finest public house in America. Among the earlyguests at this house were Thackeray and Charles Dickens, thegreat English authors; Charles and Fanny Kemble, and Presi-dent Andrew Jackson. John W^ilkes Booth, the actor, wasthere shortly before he assassinated President Lincoln. A little farther out on Tremont Stret, between West and
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TreiiionI it, wlio diid in tlii> liousc in 1^5-. Jlic site, onthe corner oi West and Treniont Streets is now (jccupied byan ck\t;anl hnsiness strncture known as the Lawrence l)uil(l-uil;, and the fsiatc is still in tlir ))(>ssession of the Lawrencelannly. Alter J.alayettes \isil io America in 1825, this por-tion of Treniont Street

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