The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury 1961, Part 2

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Publication date: 1961
Publisher: Boston : Sampson & Murdock company
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*Pheeny's Real Estate. 1925

** Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co 1851

Insurance right bottom lines and

Grocers-Importers

Detective Agency .left side lines and

Insurance left side lines

Home Furnishings

Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston The 1816 *Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia 1865

Public Finance Company 1938

Stock Brokers .left side lines and 38

Insurance .left side lines and

Real Estate. . . backbone, right top lines and

109

Bank .right side lines and

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HONOR ROLL

*Each Asterisk indicates 25 years in Business.

Name

Est. Business For further information See --

Page 17

*Quincy Savings Bank 1845

*** Raymond's Inc 1873

*Read & White . 1914

*Reynolds & Co 1931

Roman Art Embroidery Corp 1937

** Royal Mc Bee Corp 1910

Ryan Daniel C General Mutual Life

Insurance . . 1959

*Schrafft W F & Sons Corp. 1886

"Sears Thomas E Inc 1918

*** Seiler's Caterers Inc. . 1873

Sheraton Corp of America

Hotel . .left side lines and

"Sheridan's Inc . .

1933

Department Store

Hotel

** Short & Williamson Inc 1905

Funeral Director

*Shreve Crump & Low Co. 1800

1900

Hotel right bottom lines and

*** South Boston Savings Bank 1863

Bank .left side lines and

*South Shore National Bank

1836

Bank .right side lines and

** State Mutual Life Assurance Co. 1844 *State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America 1844

State Street Bank and Trust Company 1955

1901

Cans & Metal Containers

right top lines and

*Street and Co Inc 1920

** Suffolk Franklin Savings Bank 1833

Sullivan James J. 1950

Real Estate right top corner cards and

*Thompson Water Cooler Co 1930

Water Coolers right bottom lines and

126

Towne Lyne House 1939

Restaurant right top lines and

119

Investment Securities outside cover,

right top corner cards and

Bus Lines

.right side lines and

Hotel

.left side lines and

*** Union Savings Bank of Boston . 1865

Bank

** United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company. 1896

1895

*University Press of Cambridge

Inc. 1639

** VanIderstine Harry and Son Insurance Agency Inc 1902

** Volunteer Co-operative Bank 1888

Bank right top corner cards and

Vose Galleries of Boston Inc. 1841

W O R L Pilgrim Broadcasting Co 1926

*** Wainwright H C & Co. 1868

Ward Schools of Business. 1937

*** Ward's Stationers Inc 1868

Warren Institution for Savings The. 1829

*Waterman J S & Sons Inc 1832

*** Westinghouse Appliance Sales 1886

*Westinghouse Electric Supply Co 1925 +White Fuel Corporation . White's Employment Service. 1952

1921

Fuel. . left side lines

Real Estate . outside cover and

111

** Wildey Savings Bank 1892

Bank

*Winship W W Inc 1776

*Withrow W E . 1913

Movers. .left side lines and

** Woodlawn Cemetery The 1851

Bank

Department Store left side lines

Clothing . left side lines and 55

Investments. .left side lines and 39

Embroidery, Hemstitching & Stamping . . . . .

. right bottom lines and 58

Business Machines .

. right bottom lines and

102

Insurance right side lines

Confectionery Manufacturer .left side lines and

Insurance

Caterers. right bottom lines and

*Sherrard G J Co, Parker House, Bellevue Hotel . 1856

Insurance right bottom lines and

Insurance right bottom lines and 90

Bank right top lines and 10

Real Estate . left side lines and

117

Bank left top lines and

** Townsend Dabney & Tyson 1887

*Trailways of New England Inc 1936

1200 Beacon Street Hotel 1954

*** Union Central Life Insurance Co 1867

Insurance left top corner cards and

Bank

Printers right top lines and 106

Insurance .right side lines and

Art Gallery right top corner cards and Radio Broadcasting. . left bottom lines and 107

Brokers

School backbone and

122

Stationers right bottom lines and

102

Bank outside cover and

Funeral Director right side lines and

Electrical Appliances

Electrical Equipment right side lines and

Employment Agencies right side lines and

** Whittier C W & Bro. 1900

Leather right top lines and

Cemetery

Insurance . right bottom lines and

** United States Trust Company

Jewelers. right top corner cards and

** Somerset Hotel.

** Stern Can Company Inc

BOSTON .. . Historical

STATE HOUSE, BEACON STREET.

Boston, the oldest large city in the United States, was founded in 1630 by a chartered company of English colonists under the governorship of John Winthrop. Named Shawmut by its Indian inhabitants and Trimontaine by the early colonists, it received its present name on Sept. 17, 1630, after the town in Lincolnshire, England, from which many of the company had come. Two years later it was established as the capital of the Massa- chusetts Bay Colony and is today the capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Although religious freedom was one of the principles on which the early English colonies were founded, the "Puritan" population of Boston soon became intolerant of divergent religious views. Some of the offenders were exiled, Anne Hutchinson among them, and others, like Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island, emi- grated voluntarily. Between 1648 and 1688 four women were executed as witches, and four Quakers, who re- turned in defiance of their exile, were hanged.

For many years Boston was the largest town in the colonies and it has always occupied a position of lea- dership. It was the scene of the first American printing office, and the first regular newspaper, the BOSTON NEWS LETTER, was published in Boston in 1704. America's first public school, which is still in existence, the Public Latin School, was started in 1635. Harvard College, located across the Charles River in Cam- bridge, the country's oldest institution of higher learning, was founded in the following year.

Boston, as the natural center of the colonies that later came to be known as New England, was continu- ously in the forefront in the long dispute with the mother country that culminated in the American Revolution. Because of the lack of resources in New England-the soil and the climate were not suitable for the raising of the colonial staples, tobacco or cotton or sugar- this section of the New World soon became England's step-child and came to learn that it had to fend for itself. The various trade and tax laws, imposed by Britain, worked a particular hardship on New England's seaport towns. Therefore, these could subsist only through their shipping among the other colonies and between the Old and New Worlds. As a result, Boston earned the name of hotbed of the Revolution, with the Stamp Act and Revenue Act riots, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Port Bill, outward evidences of the city's right to the title. America still respects the names of the many rugged patriots who refused to accept England's punitive measures in silence-such men as Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, William Dawes and James Otis, among a long list.

New England capitalized on the opportunities offered by the industrial revolution around 1800. Textile mills sprang into being in towns all over New England where water power was available, and not long after, the shoe industry followed suit. Boston became the natural center for these industries, both as a market for their finished products and as the port of entry for their raw materials cotton, wool, silk and leather.

Boston-appropriately called "The Birthplace of the American Nation"-possesses a wealth of historic places and traditions which are the heritage of all America.

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Masonic Temple, Corner of Boylston and Tremont Streets

This Temple was erected in 1898-9 on the site of the well-known Winthrop House, which had been destroyed by fire. The Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts is the oldest Grand Lodge in the Western Hemisphere, deriving its authority from the Grand Lodge of England on July 30, 1733.

COURTESY CONVENTION BUREAU, BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

FANEUIL HALL

SOMETIMES CALLED THE "CRADLE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY" IS FANEUIL HALL IN BOSTON, WHERE AMERICAN PATRIOTS MADE FIERY SPEECHES AND ORGANIZED COMMITTEES AGAINST THE BRITISH WHICH LED TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THE SECOND FLOOR CONTAINS THE ORIGINAL HALL PRESERVED IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, AND ON THE GROUND FLOOR VISI- TORS STILL FIND THE MARKET STALLS AS THEY WERE NEARLY 200 YEARS AGO.

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A partial list of historic places to see in and around Boston includes: Samuel Adams House, "Ye Old Blake House," Boston Common-the site of the "Boston Tea Party," Bunker Hill Monument, U. S. Frigate "Constitution," Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Faneuil Hall, First Church in Boston, Franklin's Birthplace, Granary Burying Ground, King's Chapel, Liberty Tree, Old North Church (Christ Church), Old State House, Wendell Phillips House, First Post Office in American Colonies, Province House, Paul Revere House, Old South Meeting House, Old West Church, Spring Lane, the Adams Houses, Arnold's Tavern, Lowell's House, Longfellow's Home, Old Powder House, Plymouth, Minute Man Statue, Revolutionary Monument, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, and Longfellow's Wayside Inn.

VERMEER The Concert

THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM IN THE FENWAY

All over the world there are people who think of the Gardner Museum when Boston is mentioned. The word museum is perhaps somewhat misleading, because this more nearly resembles a great residence, a noble house, built in the style of a XVc Venetian palace. Standing four stories high, it surrounds a large court, glassed-in at the top, filled always with the brilliant color and the mingled perfumes of a garden in flower. Looking down on the court are open window balconies from the rooms where paintings by the great masters of the European renaissance are parts of a choice and famous collection.

When Mrs John Lowell Gardner built her palace sixty years ago she had in view a new kind of museum, one that would escape from the strictly historical or geographic arrangement that was common, a museum in which works of art could be really appreciated and enjoyed in a "natural" setting, as in a private house. Hence her choice of this type building, and hence also her highly personal arrangement of her art treasures. Since her death in 1924 there has been no change. Her house continues to delight and enchant, and it continues to attract art connoisseurs from all over the world. Last year visitors from abroad numbered nearly 6,000, while total attendance approached 117,000.

Walking through the rooms of this museum one is able to take in the contents with a fresh and open mind, mainly because of the way things are set and placed about. They seem casually placed. They give an impress- ion of domestic ease, which is furthered by the plants and flowers in the court. On every open day there is music in the Tapestry Room, heard faintly throughout the building because all windows give on the central court. When the weather is pleasant, gardens outside invite quiet strolling, and when the days are cool, rooms inside carry the pleasant smell of wood smoke from the fireplaces. Obviously, this is a grand house; but it still has the flavor of home, of a place where people have lived and where the things surrounding them have added to the fulness of their lives.

Among these things are paintings by a glittering array of masters, ranging in time onward from Giotto (1266-1337) to the contemporaries of Mrs Gardner. Among the artists are such early masters, also, as Si- mone Martini, Lippo Memmi, Fra Angelico, Uccello, Mantegna, Bermejo, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, Durer, Cranach, Giorgione, Titian, Mabuse, Raphael, Holbein, Tintoretto, and Veronese-a truly impressive roster. Among the XVIIc painters are Pourbus, Rubens, Zurbaran, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Ter Borch and Vermeer. Some later painters in the collection are Boucher, Tiepolo, Guardi, Turner, Corot, Manet, Degas, Whistler, Sargent, Macknight, and Matisse. And there are ancient Chinese, Greek and Roman sculpture, carvings and other art works from the romanesque and gothic periods of many countries, and furniture, textiles, silver, and incunabula and other early books. The catalogued collection alone consists of approximately 290 paintings, 280 pieces of sculpture, 60 drawings and prints, 460 pieces of furniture, 250 textile, 240 objects of ceramic and glass, and 350 objects of sundry other kinds, without an enumeration of manuscripts and rare books or of architectural elements set into the building.

But it is the total impression-the superb collection itself, the integrated arrangement, the music and the flowers-which makes the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum the unique experience it is, and which, in increasing numbers, draws people again and again from all over the world.

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INTRODUCTION

BOSTON . . . A Cultural Center

Side by side with the forward march of commerce and industry in the Boston area has developed a rich variety of cultural pursuits, in many of which this community holds first rank.

In music, drama and the fine arts, in education, religion, literature, science and statesmanship, Boston has contributed much to the development of America's unique civilization.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has had for 70 years one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of art works, both ancient and modern. It possesses, for example, the finest collection of Oriental art outside of the Orient; the foremost Indian collection outside of India; and its collection of Egyptian pieces surpasses in quality any to be found outside of Cairo itself. Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, modelled after a Venetian palace, contains some outstanding sculpture and Medieval stained glass, as well as superb painting ranging from the Italian Renaissance masters to the French Impressionists. Several of the museums at Har- vard hold highest rank, such as the Fogg Art Museum and the Agassiz Museum, which houses probably the foremost collection of glass flowers in the world.

In both traditional and modern art expression, Boston holds a leading place. Many art clubs flourish in this area. Art magazines commonly list a larger number of exhibitions of paintings in Boston, virtually all without admission charge, than any city outside of New York. Boston's year-around art schools and the sum- mer art colonies along the North Shore, Cape Cod and at many inland and mountain points are famous through- out the world.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, reputed to be the finest musical organization of its kind in the world, is a successor to America's first philharmonic orchestra, which was founded in Boston in 1810. The Boston symphony's offspring, the famous Boston Pops Concerts, and the more-recently established Esplanade Sum- mer Concerts, rank with the finest musical presentations. The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston is one of the leading singing groups and the nation's oldest oratorio association.

No community has provided so rich and fertile an environment for spiritual growth. Here the Christian Science Church was born, the headquarters of the Unitarian and Universalist churches and of the World Chris- tian Endeavor were established, the First American Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations were founded, and the widespread missionary activities of the Congregational Church were organized. Boston has given to the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States its presiding bishop; and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is the second largest in the country.

Boston always has been one of the leading supporters of the drama. Today this city has more first-class theatres and presents more first performances of important theatrical offerings than any other city outside of New York. The Little Theatre movement and summer theatrical presentations throughout the Massachusetts countryside are not excelled anywhere.

In literature, the contribution of Massachusetts authors to the development of American culture are known to every reader.

One of the foremost schools of architecture in the country, that of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, and others in and around Boston are notable examples of architectural beauty. Boston also is famed among American cities for the exceptional number and character of its monuments and sculptures.

Truly, this is a community richly endowed with opportunities for cultural expression and activity.

EDUCATION

Metropolitan Boston, where American education began, is today one of the world's foremost cultural and educational centers.

This section is the home of the oldest American university. Here, too, started the American public school system, and here was adopted the first legislation covering public education.

Public instruction in America began in Boston in 1635, 15 years after the advent of the Pilgrims. In that year the Boston Latin School, the first free public school, came into existence. This school antedates the foundation of Harvard, oldest American university, by one year. In 1644 the first school built and wholly sup- ported by public taxation was established in Dedham, a suburb of Boston.

In 1642 the first school law was adopted, providing for education in the homes of Boston; and in 1647 was enacted the first general school law, the "mother of all school laws," and the foundation of many present school systems. Similarly, the first training school for teachers was established here.

It is a far step from these humble beginnings of organized educational effort to the vast system of Amer- ican education in operation now. Today there are more than 700,000 students in the public schools of Massa- chusetts alone. In addition, 175,000 pupils are enrolled in private and parochial schools of pre-college grade, and in this respect, too, Massachusetts is one of the leaders.

Yet, despite this enormous growth, Boston and Massachusetts have maintained the spirit of the pioneer in education, and today with no superiors in educational standing, are as alert to opportunities for sound edu- cational progress as they were at the beginning.

Every modern facility is provided for the proper training of youth, and educational methods are of a high standard of excellence. In keeping with the needs of a great industrial community, the public school systems of the metropolitan district are equipped for training in vocational, trade, technical, commercial and mechan- ical activities; and fullest opportunities are available as well for development in cultural pursuits.

But it is not alone in free public instruction that this section excels. Here also are some of the world's foremost institutions of higher learning, including many of America's leading professional, technical, busi- ness, music and art schools.

Massachusetts has 93 institutions authorized to confer degrees, a larger number than any other state. More than half of these are in Metropolitan Boston. Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Boston University, Brandeis University, Boston College, Jackson, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Northeastern, Sim- mons, Emmanuel, Regis, Emerson, Calvin Coolidge and Suffolk are among the educational institutions located in Metropolitan Boston. In addition, there are literally hundreds of specialized schools such as the New Eng- land Conservatory of Music, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Massachusetts School of Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Forsythe Dental Clinic, Babson Institute, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and a long list of other professional and training schools, making the city a notable leader in education.

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INTRODUCTION

Of outstanding interest is the world-famous Boston Public Library, the oldest free public library in the United States. With 2,000,000 books and a 5,000,000 annual circulation, 33 branch libraries plus a bookmobile and a special addition at the Boston City Hospital, the library holds an unsurpassed position culturally. The main building, opened in 1898, was designed by McKim, Mead & White and is an excellent example of Italian Renaissance architecture. In October, 1953, the library celebrated its centennial.

Boston has played a leading role in the nation's cultural growth. Referred to in another era as "the Athens of America," it certainly held undisputed claim to this title for many years. Here-and in neighboring Cambridge and Concord- lived and worked a colony of writers which gave to American letters a distinctive place in literature. Names like Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, the Alcotts, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Aldrich, Lo- well, Howells, James, Parkman and an imposing roster of others form a rich and substantial background for all American writing that has come after them.

BOSTON

Transportation

Through the veins of Boston's transportation system flows a steady stream of traffic to meet the great and diversified requirements of New England and the important centers of the world.

Boston has every modern facility for the expeditious handling of transportation by air, land and sea. It has one of the great domestic and international airports in the United States, its seaport is equal, or superior, to any port on the Eastern Seaboard and its railroad service has been rated among the country's best. Three large railway systems, 108 foreign steamship services, 2 intercoastal steamship lines, 10 domestic air lines, 6 trans-Atlantic air lines and hundreds of highway transportation operators constitute the important and flex- ible transportation system of the Boston region.

AIRPORT

Boston's Logan International Airport, located as it is within 15 minutes' distance from the center of the business district, is one of the great skyports of the world. This great asset of accessibility and its unique opportunity for expansion to meet any future needs make Boston's airport a leader in the nation.

In operation are four paved runways, the longest over 10,000 feet. These runways are so designed that each may be extended later if it proves necessary. Furthermore, each runway can be duplicated later by a parallel runway 1,500 feet removed. Sponsored originally in 1922 by the Greater Boston Chamber of Com- merce, the airport has been built on filled land on the edge of Boston Harbor. It is operated by the Massachu- setts Port Authority, together with an alternate airport at Bedford.

The airport covers an area of more than 2,000 acres. The long paved runways are capable of handling the large trans-Atlantic planes arriving and departing at Boston. Two of Boston's famous historic landmarks -Governors Island and Apple Island-have been leveled in this enlargement operation, thus bowing to civic progress. Ten scheduled air lines-American, Eastern, Flying Tiger, National, Northeast, Trans-Canada, Trans-World, United, Allegheny and Mohawk-are currently making well over 1,000 outbound domestic flights daily. Five trans-Atlantic air lines-Irish Airlines, British Overseas, Pan-American, Trans-World Airways, and Italian Airlines-provide more than 100 trans-Atlantic outbound flights at Logan each week. The Boston-

Massachusetts Port Authority Photo

EAST BOSTON PIERS AND GRAIN ELEVATOR- LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (Background).

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New York route has been termed the heaviest traveled air route in the United States. In addition to the flights to Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, there is service to virtually all of the major cities in the United States and some Canadian cities. Boston's aviation network provides service, through convenient connections, to all of the major markets in the world.

Massachusetts Port Authority Photo

BOSTON HARBOR-MYSTIC RIVER BRIDGE (Foreground).

SEAPORT

Boston, with the finest natural harbor on the Atlantic Coast, equipped with modern piers, docks and warehouses, ranks high among the major ports of the world. It is practically land-locked and from the open sea to the inner harbor the distance is only eight miles. As a shipping point to commercial centers, Boston has a marked advantage over other American seaports. It lies 200 miles nearer Europe than New York, and 1,000 miles nearer Panama and the west coast of South America than San Francisco, and is nearer Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires than any other North Atlantic port. As compared with any other major Atlantic sea- port, from 150 to 300 miles is saved by sailing from Boston to the ports of the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and the Near East. Passengers to or from Europe may save a day or more by embarking or debarking at Boston.

The Port of Boston has several excellent waterfront terminal facilities. In South Boston there is Castle Island Terminal, with 4,200 feet of berthing space, and only one hour steaming time from the open sea; the huge Boston Army Base with its fully-enclosed pier shed nearly one mile long; Commonwealth Pier, over 35 years old and still described as the best passenger pier on the Atlantic Coast. Charlestown has the brand-new Mystic Pier No. 1, with 246,000 square feet of shed space and berthing space for three large vessels; the Boston & Maine piers Nos. 48, 49 and 50, which yearly handle thousands of tons of wood pulp and general car- go; and the new Hoosac Pier and grain elevator, with, among other features, the ability to load 30,000 bushels of grain per hour into waiting vessels. In East Boston the Boston & Albany Railroad operates two efficient finger-type piers; and the Port of Boston Commission has completed a modern terminal facility, such as was constructed at Mystic Pier No. 1, in Charlestown. A modernized grain elevator capable of delivering 30,000 bushels per hour is in service.

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The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury 1961, Part 2

Author: Publication date: 1961 Publisher: Boston : Sampson & Murdock company Number of Pages: 2090

Author:
Publication date: 1961
Publisher: Boston : Sampson & Murdock company
Number of Pages: 2090