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(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 I think 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 Boston is a work in progress.
Boston 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.nps.gov/bost/bost_lographics/ftrail.htm
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 Bowdoin Square [try 1 Bowdoin Square]
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
and School Street
Boston
Theatre Washington Street, near West Street
Park Theatre Washington Street near
the corner of Boylston
more Boston and Cambridge Historic Tourism
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
Buffalo hotels
Hotel Iroquois Oct. 1890, Main &
Eagle Streets, southeast corner
http://freenet.buffalo.edu/bah/h/iroqH/index.html
Hotel
Genesee 1895 2 Fountain Plaza [now a Hyatt Hotel]
Chicago
Chicago hotels
Palmer House 17 East Monroe
Street
Sherman House Randolph Street between Clark
and LaSalle
Tremont House Lake And Dearborn Streets
Leland
Hotel 1890
Michigan Ave. Boulevard & Jackson St.
Cincinnati of John Nickinson and EJ Phillips 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.
Cincinnati of John Nickinson and EJP
EJP and John Nickinson came to Cincinnati 1860
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 and is
buried at Spring Grove Cemetery 4521
Spring Grove Ave.
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
Los Angeles
Hotel Nadeau 202 West 1st Street [now site
of the LA Times]
Hotel Ramona,
Cor. Spring and Third Streets, FB Mallory, Prop, Sept. 1896
New Orleans
New York and John Nickinson March 2005 Other letters and the play Burnt Over Manhattan Walking tours
Photographer, John Nickinson, CD Fredericks & Co., 587 Broadway, New York, 1863
Hotels and not much else so far
Cleveland, Ohio
Hollenden Hotel Jan.1893, Nov. 1893
Superior Ave. and East 6th St.
Columbus Ohio
American Hotel March 1895
Kansas City
Coates House Tenth and Broadway 1887
Last updated Sept 8, 2006