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Horticultural Hall (1845-1860s) of Boston, Massachusetts, stood at no.40 School Street.〔Boston Directory. 1852〕〔Horticultural 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 ... () 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, 1900〕〔The 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 exhibit〔American 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Horticultural Hall, Boston (1845)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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