GUSN-202258
Tontine Crescent, a Bulfinch designed block of residences, is seen on the right side of the image. It was completed in 1794 and demolished in 1858. The block was part of Franklin Street and was between Hawley and Otis Streets. The central pavilion with the pillars was used by the Boston Library Society until 1858 and was replicated as the façade of the Kirstein Business Branch of the Boston Public Library on City Hall Avenue. The street on the left is Franklin Place. The structures on both sides of the street and the park were replaced by commercial buildings.
exterior views
houses
dwellings
town houses
intersections
libraries (buildings)
pillars
albumen prints
photographs
Recto of mount: [embossed with photographer's name and address:] Photograph By WHIPPLE & BLACK 96 WASH'N ST.; Verso of mount: Franklin St. Boston - Before the fire of 1872 [in a different hand:] From Estate of W.W. Clapp June 23-1915. [in a different hand:] File Spec. Photos Whipple & Black - 1856-1859 {Gift of Bostonian Society 22 Nov. 1923}
OVP Photo Database Number 45
OVP Number OVP0043
1 photographic print
PC001
General photographic collection
22 November 1913
PC001.01.TMP.043
10.875 x 9.75 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of the Estate of W.W. Clapp to the Bostonian Society, 13 June 1913; Gift of the Bostonian Society to Historic New England/SPNEA.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Whipple & Black (Photographer)
albumen prints
photographs
Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844
Boston Library
Boston Public Library
Architectural photography
Tontine Crescent (Boston, Mass.)
Franklin Place (Boston, Mass.)
Franklin Street (Boston, Mass.)
Hawley Street (Boston, Mass.)
Otis Street (Boston, Mass.)
Top right quarter of recto stained; scratched; mount stained from adhesive along edges of print; bottom right corner of mount missing.
Item
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