King’s Chanel and Burying Ground lied along Tremont Street, so I backtracked towards School Street until the intersection of the street and Province Street where the Old City Hall sat:
This building served as Boston’s City Hall for over a century starting from the mid 1800s, and has a French-styled facade.
There’s a statue of Benjamin Franklin on the left hand side of the compound, with another statue of Josiah Quincy, the second mayor of Boston, on the other side.
Continuing just a little down School Street was Starbucks, which had a lot of its stores around the city. Sorely tempted to go get a drink but I didn’t. The budget tourist.:)
I thought the above institution’s name was fun: it sat along School Street! These days, to start a POSBank account I think you need a lot more money than that.:)
At the intersection of School and Washington Streets sat the Old Corner Bookstore, which was first opened as a drug store in 1718 before turning into a book store in 1829. Many well-known authors of the day met here, though today the place is an exhibit for handmade furniture artifacts than any sort of actual book publishing business.
This Chippendalde Side Chair cost a very cool USD2150.:)
Along the intersection between School and Washington Street where the Old Corner Bookstore sat was a very new and modern Borders bookstore.:)
Not very large with just two midsize floors occupied by the store, but nonetheless still lovely decorated and designed. There wasn’t much of a crowd at this time – late Saturday morning – and it was a welcomed chance browsing books without the usual rancor and noise from the similar store at Wheelock Place back at home. Picked up a couple of books here too.:)
OK – in the next post, the walk of the Freedom Trail continues into Old South Meeting House and the Boston Massacre Site.
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