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Horticultural and Studio Buildings, Tremont Street
From a stereoview by John P. Soule (1827-1904)
circa 1865
Collection of the Boston Public Library
From the opening of the Tremont Street Studio Building in 1861, this mansard-roofed structure served as the headquarters of Boston’s art community until the building’s destruction by fire in 1906. Described as “a perfect hive of artists,” it also contained a theater. Gerry usually spent his winters in a studio there and could be observed during regular open-studio receptions transforming his summer and fall sketches into paintings.
