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The Old Corner Bookstore is a historic commercial building in the center of Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at the corner of Washington and School Streets, along the Freedom Trail of revolutionary and early American historic sites. ==History== The site was formerly the home of Anne Hutchinson, who was expelled from Massachusetts in 1638 for heresy.〔(Old Corner Bookstore Building | Museum/Attraction Review | Boston | Frommers.com )〕 Thomas Crease purchased the home in 1708, though it burned down in the Great Boston Fire on October 2, 1711.〔Wilson, Susan. ''Boston Sites & Insights: An Essential Guide to Historic Landmarks in and Around Boston''. Beacon Press, 2004: 175. ISBN 978-0-8070-7135-9〕 Crease constructed a new building on the site in 1712 as a residence and apothecary shop. For generations, various pharmacists used the site for the same purpose: the first floor was for commercial use and the upper floors were residential. In 1817, Dr. Samuel Clarke, father of future minister James Freeman Clarke, bought the building.〔 The building's first use as a bookstore dates to 1828, when Timothy Harrington Carter leased the space from a man named George Brimmer. Carter spent $7,000 renovating the building's commercial space, including the addition of projecting, small-paned windows on the ground floor.〔 From 1832 to 1865, it was home to Ticknor and Fields, a publishing company founded by William Ticknor, later renamed when he partnered with James Thomas Fields. For part of the 19th century, the firm was one of the most important publishing companies in the United States, and the Old Corner Bookstore became a meeting-place for such authors as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.〔Miller, Edwin Haviland. ''Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne''. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991: 281. ISBN 0-87745-332-2〕 Ticknor and Fields rented out the whole building, using only the corner for a retail space. Other section of the building, particularly upstairs rooms and storefronts facing School Street, were in turn sublet to other businesses.〔Winship, Michael. ''American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields''. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995: 180. ISBN 0-521-45469-7〕 After the death of Ticknor, Fields wanted to focus on publishing rather than the retail store. On November 12, 1864, he sold the Old Corner Bookstore to E. P. Dutton; Ticknor and Fields moved to Tremont Street.〔Tryon, Warren S. ''Parnassus Corner: A Life of James T. Fields, Publisher to the Victorians''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963: 279.〕 A succession of other publishing houses and booksellers followed Ticknor and Fields in the building. In keeping with its literary past, in the 1890s the shop carried magazines such as: ''Arena'', ''Argosy'', ''Army and Navy Journal'', ''Art'', ''Art Amateur'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Black Cat'', ''Bookman'', ''Bradley His Book'', ''Catholic World'', ''The Century Magazine'', ''The Chap-Book'', ''The Church'', ''The Churchman'', ''Current Literature'', ''Donahoe's Magazine'', ''Every Month'', ''Forum'', ''Gunton's Magazine'', ''Harpers Bazaar'', ''Harper's Round Table'', ''Harper's Weekly'', ''Home and Country'', ''Judge'', ''Ladies' Home Journal'', ''Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly'', ''Leslie's Weekly'', ''Life'', ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'', ''Munsey's Magazine'', ''The Nation'', ''North American Review'', ''Outing'', ''Pocket Magazine'', ''Poet Lore'', ''Public Opinion'', ''Outlook'', ''Puck'', ''Puritan'', ''Red Letter'', ''Review of Reviews'', ''Scientific American'', ''Scribner's Magazine'', ''Shoppell's'', ''St. Nicholas Magazine'', ''Town Talk'', ''Truth'', ''Vogue'', ''What to Eat'', ''Yale Review'', and ''Youth's Companion''.〔"On the News-Stands." Printers' Ink, v.18, no.13, March 31, 1897.〕 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「Old Corner Bookstore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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