Identifier: antiqueviewsofye00star_0 (find matches)
Title: Antique views of ye towne of Boston
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Stark, James Henry
Subjects: Dwellings Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston : Published by ye Photo-electrotype engraving co. ...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
There are those who think this famous man lived many
years later, undoubtedly, because the widow carried on the busi-
ness after his decease, as was advertised in one of the obituary
notices of her husband, and perhaps, because his famous soup is
not yet excluded from sumptuous bills of fare on festive oc-
casions.

THE LAMB TAVERN.

The Adams House on Washington street now stands on the site
of the famous old hostlery the Lamb Tavern—sometimes styled
in White Lamb. The "Lamb," was an unpretentious building
of two stories, but of good repute in Old Boston. The sign is
noticed as early as 1746. Col. Doty kept at the sign of the
Lamb in 1760 ; Edward Kingman kept it in 1826, after which it
was conducted successively by Laban Adams, for whom the house
was named, father of "Oliver Optic" (W. T. Adams), and by
A. S. Allen. The first stage-coach to Providence, advertised
July 20, 1767, by Thomas Sabin, put up at the sign of the Lamb.
The White Horse and the Lion Taverns, well known public re-
sorts, were near neighbors of the Lamb.
Text Appearing After Image:

LAMB TAVERN

ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 79

TRIANGULAR WAREHOUSE.

This quaint looking structure stood near the town dock, its site
now being occupied by the building at the head of North Market
Street, with a moiety in Merchants' Row and Clinton Street and
was opposite the swing bridge. It measured on the side facing
the dock forty-eight feet: on Roebuck passage fifty-one feet, and
on the rear fifty-five feet. It was a two story building, with stone
foundaton, and had a good cellar. At each angle and in the
centre there was a tower, each terminating in a pointed roof of
slate, and were capped with a stone ball on iron spires set in lead,
except the middle tower, which had a wooden one.

Note About Images