Boston Aquarial Gardens

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.

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

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]

References

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

Further reading

• "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

External links

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boston Aquarial Gardens (1859-1860).

• . The Boston Aquarial Gardens (1859 - 1860).

Image gallery

•  
  Advertisement, 1859
•  
  "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

42°21′25″N 71°03′36″W / 42.357°N 71.060°W / 42.357; -71.060