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Merchants Exchange (Boston)

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Charles Augustus Goodrich. The family tourist: A visit to the principal cities of the western continent: embracing an account of their situation, origin, plan, extent, their inhabitants, manners, customs, and amusements ... together with sketches of historical events. Case, Tiffany and company, 1848;
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The Merchants Exchange served as one of Boston's "great gathering-points of the traders -- the marble-paved and frescoed hall ... with its newspaper files, bulletins, wind vane, and ship registry." It was "elegant ... with a fine reading-room, ... and besides accommodations for the post office, and
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Built in 1841-1842 by architect Isaiah Rogers, Merchants Exchange was considered "among the best specimens of architecture in Boston" and "a dignified building in its day." Re-modelling occurred after the building "went down" in the
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for several insurance and brokers' offices, affords many conveniences for the mercantile community."
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After 1890, the "Exchange Building" occupied the site of the former Merchants Exchange building.
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Edwin Hodder. Cities of the world. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882; p.278.
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Detail of 1860s map of Boston, showing Merchants Exchange building
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Index


Boston
Massachusetts
Isaiah Rogers
State Street
fire of 1872
Boston Marine Society
Boston Stock Exchange
Post-Office
A gazetteer of Massachusetts


Bacon, Edwin M.
The Nation







Bacon, Edwin M.
Bacon's Dictionary of Boston
The memorial history of Boston
State Street
State Street
Detail of 1860s map of Boston, showing Merchants Exchange building
The Exchange, ca.1885
Reading room, ca.1885
42°21′31.33″N 71°3′22.56″W / 42.3587028°N 71.0562667°W / 42.3587028; -71.0562667

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