Old Corner Bookstore (Boston, Massachusetts)

USA / Massachusetts / Boston / Boston, Massachusetts / School Street, 1
 bookstore, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1710s construction
The Old Corner Bookstore is a small eighteenth-century structure, built shortly after the fire 1712 as a home and apothecary shop, the structure became an internationally known literary mecca by the mid-nineteenth century. Between 1845 and 1865, publishers William D. Ticknor and James T. Fields occupied the Old Corner and revolutionized the world of American book publishing by adopting the then novel practice of paying royalties. Among the dozens of prestigious authors who worked for Ticknor & Fields and who passed through the store's portals with startling regularity were Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry David Thoreau, as well as Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, and Dickens.

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Coordinates:   42°21'27"N   71°3'30"W
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