Old Corner Bookstore opens.

Operated by Richard B. Carter and Charles J. Hendee, it is located in the printing shop established the year before by Timothy Carter at today’s 3 School Street (283 Washington Street, then 135 Washington Street). The building becomes Ticknor & Fields publishing house in 1832,* the first home of The Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1857, and continues to serve as a bookshop until 1903. Threatened with demolition, the building is preserved by Historic Boston, Inc. in 1960,* renovated by Francis N. Cummings in 1964, and subsequently leased for commercial use. It is the home of the Globe Corner Bookstore from 1982 until 1997, and is today the headquarters of Historic Boston Inc.