The Tontine Crescent, Franklin Place, Boston – Antique Wall Art
![The Tontine Crescent, Franklin Place, Boston, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a5adceaf261d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic print of The Tontine Crescent, Franklin Place, Boston. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Tontine Crescent, Franklin Place, Boston
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Few Boston streets were laid out with the ambition of the Tontine Crescent, a curved row of brick townhouses on Franklin Place designed by Charles Bulfinch in the early 1790s. The houses were financed through a tontine, a subscription scheme in which investors shared the income and the last surviving holder took the property, and the crescent became one of the city's fashionable addresses. Its graceful arc broke with the straight grid of most Boston streets, which makes it a distinctive subject for a city view. The row was cleared in the 1850s, so the picture preserves a streetscape that no longer exists.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Iconographic Society, The. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,100 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115093 |
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