Old Corner Bookstore - 19th-century publishing hub

The Old Corner Bookstore building at 283 Washington Street housed the publishers Ticknor and Fields in the mid-19th century and became a central gathering place for American writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The site is frequently cited in local literary lore as a nexus of Boston's literary scene during the antebellum and postbellum eras. The building's historic role in publishing and authorial networks is documented in bibliographic and city histories.