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City maps & historic tourism (with thanks to authors Sarah Vowell and Richard Holmes)
I've been experimenting with
Google Maps and
Google Earth as they seem incredibly
well suited to getting maps of neighborhoods EJ Phillips lived and/or worked in.
The web has become increasingly valuable for history and historical accounts
over the past 10-15 years. It took me awhile to realize that the Willard and
Palmer House Hotels were not the buildings EJ Phillips had stayed at -- though
they are on the same sites. New York, with a wealth of addresses and years
of letters has been the most tractable (and compact) place to investigate.
Washington DC has provided some true surprises and my plans for a
transcontinental western train trip have
prompted creation of many more city maps
Baltimore Letters EJP's
Baltimore Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.00049a51974ca162c7fa6&ll=39.269972,-76.624532&spn=0.022493,0.055575&z=15
Boston Letters
EJP's
Boston Google Map 1886-1895
When I moved to Boston in 1979 I never dreamed I would
read letters from a relative talking about the flowers in the
Public Garden or going to
Longfellow's House in Cambridge. I still need to
check out (and transcribe a letter) an excursion EJ Phillips made to City Point
{Castle Island) and I haven't really figured out which new
park was unfinished in 1888. Did EJ Phillips ever visit Quincy Market
or Faneuil Hall? the Union Oyster House in the Blackstone Block? She almost
certainly saw the State House, the Park Street Church, and the Granary Burying
Ground.
How much of the Freedom Trail would she have been likely to see? http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Trail
Old Landmarks
of Boston Boston
Railway stations Community Heritage Maps
http://communityheritagemaps.com/
Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data, Tufts University
http://dca.tufts.edu/features/bostonstreets/index.html
Boston hotels and theaters
US Hotel,
Beach Street, between Lincoln and Kingston 1886-1893 Still around in 1895
according to Bostonian Society photo on web Jan 2007.
Hotel Bowdoin 1895 photograph of Bowdoin Square 1920
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/1500/mcms.html shows the Custom House
Tower
Bijou Theatre 543-547 Washington Street, Boston Museum 18 -28 Tremont Street, between Court & School Sts, Boston Theatre Washington St, near West St, Park Theatre Washington St near corner Boylston
more Boston and Cambridge Historic Tourism
Buffalo Letters EJP's
Buffalo Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.000499247fc2c944ecea6&ll=42.884471,-78.875163&spn=0.01066,0.027788&z=16
Hotel Iroquois Oct. 1890
http://www.buffaloah.com/h/iroqH/index.html
Hotel Genesee 1895 Two Fountain Plaza [now a Hyatt Hotel]
Buffalo
walking tour Great architecture, Olmstead parks and the Historical
Society building from the Pan American Exposition of 1901 -- reminds me of the
1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Many thanks to Ellen and George
Charleston letter
Charleston Google map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.000499abaac0b5ef84052&ll=32.778507,-79.930043&spn=0.012232,0.027788&t=h&z=16&layer=t
Chicago Letters
Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.00049808fec2a0bd5928b&ll=41.909112,-87.632017&spn=0.043308,0.111151&z=14&iwloc=0004980916ea6188109c6
Chicago hotels Palmer House
17 East Monroe St, Sherman House
Randolph St between
Clark and LaSalle, Tremont House Lake & Dearborn Sts, Leland Hotel Michigan Ave. Boulevard
& Jackson St.
Cincinnati of
John Nickinson and EJ Phillips Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.0004980b2bec7cb370b54&z=15
John Nickinson is buried at Spring Grove Cemetery
http://www.springgrove.org/sg/history/History.shtm
in the Masonic plot.
http://www.springgrove.org/sg/genealogy/sg_genealogy.asp?firstname=john&lastname=nickinson&submit=Search
Cincinnati of John Nickinson and EJP
Pike's Opera House, Fourth Street & Vine Street, southeast corner. John
Nickinson was the stage manager at the time of his death. EJ Phillips appeared
there with Junius Brutus Booth Jr. the night Lincoln was assassinated in April
1865.
EJP lived at 208 West Fifth Street in 1864 according to the "Spirit
Letter" Was this where she and John Nickinson had lived?
John Nickinson was photographed at Dewey's Gallery 102 West Fifth St., bet. Vine
& Race 1862
John Nickinson died Feb. 9, 1864 at the
apothecary store of Mr. C.H. Brutton, on the north-west corner of Fifth and Elm
streets.
Photograph of Hattie, Hoag and Quicke's Art Palace 100 Fourth Street c. 1865
Photograph of Albert, Ball & Thomas Photographic Art Gallery 120 West Fourth
Street near Race c. 1865
Burnet House, Third and Vine, built 1850, EJP
stayed in Jan.1893
Palace Hotel, Sixth and Vine, northwest corner, opened 1882, EJP stayed in Nov.
1893
I haven't really been to Cincinnati,
only the airport (which is in Kentucky). But I did find some nice photographic
histories in the airport bookstore.
Denver Letters Denver Google Map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.0004980c74e21dd9d9eda&z=15
Indianapolis map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms
Los Angeles
Letters
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.00049848ced3869db63f7&z=18
Hotel Nadeau 202 West 1st Street [now site of the LA Times]
Hotel Ramona, Cor. Spring and Third
Streets, FB Mallory, Prop, Sept. 1896
Middletown
Letters,
NY
Albert & Neppie's Middletown Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.00049958d6c6f5c6f3687&z=18
Middletown and environs Google map Albert & Neppie, Macardells and the
Zavistowskis 18702-1900s
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.00049973276c80c870dfa&ll=41.51886,-74.328003&spn=0.834925,1.783905&z=10
Montreal Letters Canada Google Map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.000498494dba6fa90e49b&z=15
New Orleans Letter
EJ Phillips and Lawrence Barrett
New
Orleans Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.0004998bf9253de0ef10d&z=16
New York Letters 1880s 1890s
Manhattan Walking
tour New York Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.0004588b277f2dac79a89&z=14
Add Photographer, John Nickinson, CD Fredericks &
Co., 587 Broadway, New York, 1863
Omaha Letters
EJ Phillips Omaha Google map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?authuser=0&vps=3&hl=en&doflg=ptm&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.0004aa5af202103ebc787
Philadelphia Letters
Philadelphia center city
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.00049829adf8d3f988adc&z=16
Dolman's & Fairmount Park
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.0004982a30c21dde6bc64&z=14
Tacony/Wissinoming/Forrest home
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&mpa=0&ctz=300&mpf=5&vps=3&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.000499b008739403de491
Portland Letters
Portland Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.00049a10a8b07de1f2289&z=19
Salt Lake City Letters
Salt Lake City
Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.0004981f8f47ad6e754cb&z=16
San Francisco Letters Google Map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.000498306dbbdab14224f&z=14
Seattle Letters
Seattle Washington
Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.0004995fcfeaa635fda58&ll=47.599352,-122.333756&spn=0.002453,0.006947&z=18
Toronto Letters Google Map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.000499257af3c12311fae&doflg=ptk&z=19
Vancouver Letter Google Map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.00049a2cc21fb3fb8d5a7&ll=49.283498,-123.118662&spn=0.004549,0.013894&z=17
Washington DC Letters Google map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.00049833b1ebaec40c0c0&z=13
Travels 1850s- 1898 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.000498487fbaa128afc83&z=5
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