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Your visit to Boston would not be complete with-
out a call at the Historical Oyster House, which has
heen doing continuous business since 1826, with the
same stalls and oyster bar in their original positions.
On the second floor of this building lived Louis
Philippe, afterwards King of France, during his
exile, and here he taught the French language to
many prominent Bostonians of the period.
Previous to 1826 it had been the well-known store
of Thomas Capen, importer of silks and fancy dress
goods, and was known as "At the Sign of the Corn-
fields." Thomas Capen succeeded his father, Hopestill
Capen, with whom in 1769 Benjamin Thompson of
Woburn, afterwards Count Rumford, was apprenticed
as Clerk. Here at the same time the distinguished
merchant, Thomas Parkman, learned his trade.
UNION OYSTER HOUSE
1ION OYSTER HOUSE
In the upper part of this building, Isaiah Thomas
published the "Massachusetts Spy," having for its
motto, "Open to all parties, but influenced by noie,"
from 1771 to the beginning of hostilities of the Revo-
lutionary War in April, 1775, when it was moved to
Worcester, Mass., where it was long known as the
oldest paper in America in point of continuous service.
OUSE
HOUSE
During a part of the Revolutionary Period,
Ebenezer Hancock, a paymaster of the Continental
Army, had his headquarters here.
OYSTERS
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LIVE
A LOBSTER NEAT AWOOS YE OLDE OYSTER HOUSE
BOTH RESTAURANTS AIR CONDITIONED
Branch at 143 Stuart St.
Ye Old Oyster House, 41 Union St., Boston
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UNION OYSTER HOUSE, Inc.
Ye Olde Oyster House Since 1826
41 Union Street, Boston, Mass.
NEAR FANEUIL HALL
Branch-143 Stuart Street, Boston, Mass.
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