Old Corner Bookstore - 19th-century publishing hub

The Old Corner Bookstore building on Washington Street dates to the early 18th century and became a center of American publishing in the mid-19th century. It housed the publishing firm Ticknor and Fields, which published authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The site is noted for its role in Boston's literary and publishing history and is preserved as a commercial building with historical markers.