Historical landmark
Old Corner Bookstore
283 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108, USA
Colonial apothecary and bookstore built on the site of a banished preacher's house, later home to a famed literary publisher.
This guide to the Old Corner Bookstore in Boston opens in the 1630s, when a midwife named Anne Hutchinson turned her house on this corner into a packed weekly scripture class, drawing crowds until Governor John Winthrop decided her teaching was too dangerous to tolerate. You'll hear how she was hauled before Massachusetts's magistrates in a Cambridge meetinghouse in 1637, and how she stood her ground against dozens of charges. It also follows what came after on this same ground: a fire in 1711 and a rebuilding into one of Boston's most storied buildings.
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