Amory Hall (Boston)

Amory Hall (c. 1834 – c. 1888) was located on the corner of Washington Street and West Street in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.

[1][2][3] Myriad activities took place in the rental hall, including sermons; lectures by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison; political meetings; exhibitions by Rembrandt Peale, George Catlin, John Banvard; moving panoramas; magic shows; concerts; and curiosities such as the "Nova Scotia Giant Boy."

Through the years, tenants included: First Free Congregational Church (c. 1836);[4] Grace Church (1836);[5] artists Eastman Johnson, J.C. King, N. Southworth, T.T.

Spear, William S. Tiffany (c.1847);[6] Oliver Stearns, retailer of artists' supplies (1849–1850);[7] artists J.A.

[8] In 1888, the hall was acquired by retailer William H. Zinn and incorporated into his "Connected Stores" occupying the block bounded by West and Washington Streets and Temple Place.