Shop fronts

NOTES: Nos 165-167 were built in the early 1770s as houses with shops by Sir Robert Taylor. The distinctive large plate glass windows with their cast-iron surround date from 1865-1902 and possibly as late as 1925 for no. 169 (not seen) as Asprey's expanded after acquiring the premises in 1847.

NOTES: The firm of Berry Bros & Rudd wine merchants began here in c. 1699. The house dates from 1731-1733 and the shopfront is early 19th century, although the three left-hand arches are replacements of 1931.

NOTES: Bailey's was an ice cream company which opened its first store in West Street, Boston in 1873. This store in Franklin Street closed in 1988.

NOTES: The building was originally designed in 1904 in a Beaux Arts style by William Gibbons Rantoul. It was remodelled in 1929-1930 as an Art Deco building for Shreve Crump & Low by William T. Aldrich.

NOTES: The building was originally designed in 1904 in a Beaux Arts style by William Gibbons Rantoul. It was remodelled in 1929-1930 as an Art Deco building for Shreve Crump & Low by William T. Aldrich.

NOTES: The apartment building above the shop is by the architect Eugene Miotat and dated 1886.

NOTES: The department store has been restored and converted into a restaurant (which occupies the ground floor) and an office building.