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Jacksons of Piccadilly, tea merchant; Kardomah, a chain of tea and coffee shops in England, Wales, and a few in Paris, popular from the early 1900s until the 1960s, but now almost defunct. Lyons Corner House, now defunct; its waitresses were known as Nippy, because of their speed; The Orchard, Grantchester, just outside Cambridge
Westall School (1907), 276 Maple Street; Fall River Technical School (1929), 290 Rock Street; Quequechan Firehouse (1873), 330 Prospect Street; Anawan No. 6 Firehouse (1873), North Main Street; Religious. First Congregational Church (1913), 282 Rock Street; United Presbyterian Church (1924), 414 Rock Street; Temple Beth-El (1928), 385 High Street
Tea rooms opened around the city, and in the late 1880s fine hotels elsewhere in Britain and in America began to offer tea service in tea rooms and tea courts. [11] Glasgow in 1901 reported that "Glasgow, in truth, is a very Tokio for tea-rooms. Nowhere can one have so much for so little, and nowhere are such places more popular and frequented."
The main office of a major international law firm, WilmerHale, is located at 60 State Street. The building is shared with Good Measures and is the corporate headquarters for the company. The building also served as the corporate headquarters of the Sheraton Hotel group from 1978 until they were acquired by Starwood Hotels and Resorts in 1998.
It is located near the State Street, Downtown Crossing and Park Street MBTA (subway) stations. The Old South Meeting House is claimed to be the second oldest establishment existent in the United States. It is currently under consideration for local landmark status by the Boston Landmarks Commission. [23]
A tea room may have a floor area as small as 1.75 tatami mats (one full tatami mat for the guests plus a tatami mat called a daime (台目), about 3/4 the length of a full tatami mat, for the portable brazier (furo) or sunken hearth (ro) to be situated and the host to sit and prepare the tea); or as large as 10 tatami mats or more; 4.5 mats is ...
Women's Union Building (1909), Rock Street. The Lower Highlands Historic District encompasses one of the oldest residential areas of Fall River, Massachusetts.The district is roughly bounded by Cherry, Main, Winter, and Bank Streets, and is located just east of the Downtown Fall River Historic District and directly south of the Highlands Historic District.
The Newton Highlands Historic District encompasses the historic heart of the village of Newton Highlands in Newton, Massachusetts.When it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the district extended along Lincoln Street from Woodward to Hartford Streets, and included blocks of Bowdoin, Erie and Hartford Streets south of Lincoln Street. [2]