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Horticultural Hall (Boston, 1845)
Building in Boston, Massachusetts, US (built 1845) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Horticultural Hall (1845-1860s) of Boston, Massachusetts, stood at no.40 School Street.[1][2] The Massachusetts Horticultural Society erected the building and used it as headquarters until 1860.[3] Made of granite, it measured "86 feet in length and 33 feet in width ... [with] a large hall for exhibitions, a library and business room, and convenient compartments for the sale of seeds, fruits, plants and flowers."[4] Among the tenants: Journal of Agriculture;[5] Azell Bowditch's seed store;[6] and Morris Brothers, Pell & Trowbridge minstrels.[7][8]
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Events
- 1840s
- Benjamin Champney exhibit[9]
- Exhibit of John Skirving's "Panorama of Fremont's Overland Journey to Oregon and California"[9][10]
- 1850s
- "Living specimens ... of mankind" from Iximaya, Central America[9]
- Harmoneons performance[9]
- American Pomological Society meeting
- 1854: Boston's first Women's Rights Convention[11]
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