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31 Mar An Anthem for Five Dollars: Julia Ward Howe’s Battle Hymn and the Old Corner Bookstore
Ticknor and Fields’ shop at the corner of School Street and Washington Street published iconic literary works like Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Life in the Woods and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Over the course of 75 years, the corner store was home to ten...
30 Aug North Bennet Street School Opens Pop-Up at The Old Corner Bookstore
Blog post by NBSS Staff North Bennet Street School (NBSS) recently took on a vacant retail space in Boston’s Downtown Crossing for a temporary showcase of traditional trades. Offered to NBSS by Historic Boston Inc (HBI)—which owns the Freedom Trail-adjacent site—the small storefront space features...
14 Feb STEAM Students at the Old Corner Bookstore
Guest blogger, Barbara Mikolajczak leads the Immersive Education club at Saint John School in the North End using Minecraft to teach history, architecture and Math. The STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) students in her class have used Minecraft to recreate sites along The Freedom Trail using specifications...
04 Jan Daedalus Co. Restores Old Corner Bookstore Marker
Michael “Mars” Marston of Daedalus Co. prepared this article on the company’s restoration of a 1930 bronze marker that commemorates Anne Hutchinson. The plaque once hung on the Old Corner Bookstore building and was recently discovered by the Boston Planning and Development Agency hidden away...
23 Oct Views of the Old Corner Bookstore
Over the course of its 300-year existence, the Old Corner Bookstore has been home to dozens of commercial storefronts including, an apothecary, the famed book publisher Ticknor and Fields, a cigar emporium, a lunch counter, tailor workshops, a pizza joint, real estate and lender’s offices,...
13 Sep Fall Fundraiser for Old Corner Bookstore Planned in Honor of Anthony Pangaro
On Tuesday, November 13, 2018, Historic Boston Inc. (HBI) will gather Anthony Pangaro’s family, friends, and colleagues at the historic Omni Parker House to pay tribute to a career that has spanned nearly 40 years and, through achievements large and small, transformed the landscape of...
27 Feb The Legacy of Publishers Ticknor and Fields at the Old Corner Bookstore
Literary historian Rob Velella presents the fourth of four installment of a presentation made in the fall of 2017 at the Old South Meetinghouse on the extraordinary history of Ticknor and Fields whose 19th century publishing hegemony made the Old Corner Bookstore one of the most importance places in American literary history....