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Old South Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1910

Subjects
ChurchesPatriotic
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1915 (White Border)
Front of Old South Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1910, c. 1915 lithograph postcard
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Back of Old South Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1910, c. 1915 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

The card shows the Old South Meeting House, a red-brick colonial meeting house with a tall white steeple, standing at a street corner and hemmed in by much taller stone commercial blocks. Built in 1729 for the Third Church of Boston, it is best known as the hall where some 5,000 colonists gathered on December 16, 1773, before the Boston Tea Party, and it was saved from demolition in 1876-77 to become a museum. The steeple and clock, the arched windows, and the pedestrians on the sidewalk are all rendered in tinted lithography.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Have written you a card or two since we came down there, as I work until noon, but if you had any thing planned to night stop for us, will try to come - love - Fred - Kate

PublisherDetroit Publishing Co.
71563 OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE, BOSTON, MASS. --- "PHOSTINT" TRADE MARK REG U.S. PAT OFF MADE ONLY BY DETROIT PUBLISHING CO. POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE THIS SPACE MAY BE USED FOR MESSAGE. THIS SPACE FOR THE ADDRESS
Addressed to
Waldo A. Johnson

238 North Main St., Orange, MA

Postcard record

PublisherDetroit Publishing Co.
Series71563
ConditionGood
Place addressedWaldo A. Johnson, 238 North Main St., Orange, MA
Place depictedOld South Meeting House, Boston, MA
PublisherDetroit Publishing Co., Detroit, MI
NotesWhite border; printed series number at lower left of caption; light edge and corner wear, faint scuffing in the sky area. Postmark: [illegible] N.Y. AUG [illegible]. Divided-back "Phostint" (Detroit Publishing Co.) card with white border; light toning and edge wear, stamp removed.

Cite this card

Old South Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1915. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/old-south-meeting-house-boston-massachusetts-circa-1910. Accessed October 24, 2026.