Boston Aquarial Gardens

Boston Aquarial Gardens
Boston Aquarial Gardens
	Boston Aquarial Gardens, Bromfield Street, 1859
Date opened	1859
Date closed	1860
Location	Bromfield Street, Financial District, Boston

The Boston Aquarial Gardens (1859-1860) was a public aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts, established by James Ambrose Cutting and Henry D Butler. The "conservatories [were] filled with rare marine animals imported and collected exclusively for this establishment; ... a perfect and striking illustration of life beneath the waters."^[1] The business was located on Bromfield Street in the Financial District.

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In 1860 it moved to a new facility nearby, on Central Court, off Washington Street, and re-opened as the Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens.^[2]

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Boston Post, April 12, 1859
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Winsor. The memorial history of Boston: including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, Volume 4. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1886

"Mrs. Partington Visits the Fishes". New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette; Date: 08-17-1859
Catalogue of fishes, mollusca, zoophytes, &c., &c., at Aquarial Gardens, no.21 Bromfield Street, Boston; Cutting & Butler, proprietors. In: Willem Theodorus Gevers Deynoot. Aanteekeningen op eene reis door de Vereenigde Staten van Noord Amerika en Canada, in 1859. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1860. Google books
Aquarial Gardens. Barre Gazette (Barre, Massachusetts); Date: 07-20-1860

New England Aquarium. The Boston Aquarial Gardens (1859 - 1860).

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"Catalogue of fishes, mollusca, zoophytes, &c. ... Cutting & Butler, proprietors," 1859
Detail of map of Boston, showing Bromfield Street, early 1860s
Advertisement for "the learned seals," 1860

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Boston Post, April 12, 1859

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Winsor. The memorial history of Boston: including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, Volume 4. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1886

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Boston Aquarial Gardens
Boston Aquarial Gardens, Bromfield Street, 1859

Date opened	1859 (1859)
Date closed	1860 (1860)
Location	Bromfield Street, Financial District, Boston