Winter Street (Boston) Explained

Winter Street
Location:	Boston
Direction A:	West
Terminus A:	Tremont Street
Direction B:	East
Terminus B:	Washington Street

Winter Street in Boston, Massachusetts, is located between Tremont Street and Washington Street, near the Common. It is currently a pedestrian zone.^[1] Prior to 1708, it was called Blott's Lane and then Bannister's Lane..^{[2] [3]} It was also known at times as "Winer Street".^[4]

See also

• Downtown Crossing
• Boston Music Hall

Former tenants

• M.M. Ballou, publisher
• Deloss Barnum, photographer
• Central Church^[5]
• Walter Lofthouse Dean, 3 Winter Street, painter^[6]
• Draper & Folsom, publishers
• Fadettes of Boston
• Gilchrist's store
• A.N. Hardy, photographer
• Josiah Leavitt
• New England Emigrant Aid Company
• Polyanthos
• Henry and John Christian Rauschner, portraitists
• Schoenhof & Moeller
• S.R. Urbino, foreign books

Image gallery

42.3559°N -71.0614°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: City of Boston . Street Book .
2. Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910.
3. Thomas Wait Tucker. Bannisters Lane, 1708-1899: being sundry remarks, some historical and all new and interesting, on Bannisters Lane now named Winter Street and the district immediately thereabout. Boston: Shepard, Norwell & Co., 1899
4. Web site: Burgiss's Map (1728) ., reprinted by Shurtleff, Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, 3d Edition, 1891, at p.92
5. Gleasons Pictorial . Boston, Mass. . Central Church . 1853 . 5.
6. "Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Volumes 1–3", by Corcoran Gallery of Art