80-102 North street &
87-113 cross street
Julia C.
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This parcel of land - 80-102 North Street & 87-113 Cross Street - has a rich history with many engaging facts and anecdotes. Scroll through the pages to learn more about a snapshot in time of the physical landscape of the parcel, the businesses that worked there, and the influential Bostonian figures connected to it. You will walk away with a deeper understanding of Boston and some of its stories that otherwise may have been lost to history.
Sanborn Insurance Map, 1882, Leventhal Map Collection, Atlascope.
Click the link above to learn more about the physical attributes of this parcel, a severe fire that threatened three lives as a factory went up in flames, and how the area stands today.
Click the link above to explore five local businesses that worked out of this block of Boston. Everything from sheet metals to chairs to tin and aluminum to asphalt to cork - North Street and Cross Street had it all!
"Cross Street Widening from North Street to Commercial Street," 1933, Boston Public Works Department Photograph Collection, City Archives.
Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Jul 28, 1897. ProQuest.
Click the links below to learn about two highly influential individuals in Boston who owned portions of this parcel. Together, these business partners owned The Summer Street Trust, a company they used to lease buildings throughout the city.
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Sanborn. Insurance Maps of Boston. New York: Sanborn Map & Publishing Co, 1882. Via Atlascope.
Boston (Mass.). "Cross Street widening from North Street to Commercial Street." Photograph. November 30, 1933. Digital Commonwealth, https://cityofboston.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_09820546-7345-4893-a958-1a75fc67cf04/
"MR MOSES WILLIAMS.: IT HAS BEEN APPARENT THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REFORM THE CURRENCY IN HARD TIMES."." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Jul 28, 1897. https://holycross.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=cas&url=https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/mr-moses-williams/docview/498644013/se-2.