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Jacob Wirth Restaurant

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1844–1845, Greenleaf Sanborn, housewright. 31–39 Stuart St.
  • Jacob Wirth Restaurant (Peter Vanderwarker or Antonina Smith)

A rare surviving Greek Revival bowfront for this neighborhood, the building retains a broad masonry frieze and dormers with original pediments. Greenleaf Sanborn, a housewright very active in the first South End neighborhood of Boston, developed this property with housewright Thatcher Ross and mason Thomas Wait. The building contracts document that Sanborn acted as his own architect. Jacob Wirth acquired the eastern half in 1878 and established a retail outlet for his wine and beer import business on the ground floor below his residence. In 1889 he expanded into the adjoining house and added the storefront with cast-iron columns. Later the family established a German restaurant that remained in the Wirth family until 1965.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Keith N. Morgan
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What's Nearby

General Bank (Hayden Building)
Wilbur Theater
Cutler Majestic Theater, Emerson College
China Trade Building (Boylston Building) and Young Men's Christian Union Building
Wang Center for the Performing Arts (Music Hall, Metropolitan Theater)

Citation

Keith N. Morgan, "Jacob Wirth Restaurant", [Boston, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-TD12.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Massachusetts

Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, Keith N. Morgan, with Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, 126-126.

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