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OYSTER SEA GRILL UNION OYSTER HOUSE INC.
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ADIES & GENTS
HOLD OYSTER HOUSE
OYSTERS
CLANS MUNSTERS
Ye Old Oyster House, 41 Union St., Boston
Your visit to Boston would not be complete with-
out a call at the Historical Oyster House, wh.ch has
been 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 there 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 Coru-
fields." Thomas Capen succeeded his father, Hope-
still Capen, with whom in 1796 Benjamin Thompson
of Woburn, afterwards Count Rumford, was appren-
ticed as Clerk. Here at the same time the dis-
tinguished merchant, Thomas Parkman, learned his
trade.
In the upper part of this building Isaiah Thomas
published the "Massachusetts Spy," having for its
motto "Open to all parties, but influenced by none,"
from 1771 to the beginning of hostilities of the
Revolutionary 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.
During a part of the Revolutionary Period, Ebene-
zer Hancock, a paymaster of the Continental Army,
had his headquarters here.
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Union Oyster House, Inc.
41-43 Union Street, Boston, Mass.
NEAR FANEUIL HALL
Formerly Atwood's Oyster House
Established 1826
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