Merchants Exchange (Boston)

The Merchants Exchange served as one of Boston's "great gathering-points of the traders -- the marble-paved and frescoed hall ... with its newspaper files, bulletins, wind vane, and ship registry." It was "elegant ... with a fine reading-room, ... and besides accommodations for the post office, and for several insurance and brokers' offices, affords many conveniences for the mercantile community." Architecture Built between 1841 and 1842 by architect Isaiah Rogers, Merchants Exchange was considered "among the best specimens of architecture in Boston" and "a dignified building in its day." Re-modelling occurred after the building "went down" in the fire of 1872. After 1890, the "Exchange Building" occupied the site of the former Merchants Exchange building. • Soldiers' Messenger Corps == References ==

Image:State Street, Boston, Mass..jpg|State Street Image:State Street, looking down, Boston, Mass..jpg|State Street Image:1869 MerchantsExchange Nanitz map Boston detail BPL 10490.png|Detail of 1860s map of Boston, showing Merchants Exchange building Image:1885 MerchantsExchange Boston.png|The Exchange, ca.1885 Image:1885 MerchantsExchange Boston2.png|Reading room, ca.1885