National Typographical Union Banquet

17a.  Revere House Boston National Typographic  Union 1859.jpg
17b.  Revere House Boston National Typographic  Union 1859.jpg

Creator

Revere House

Title

National Typographical Union Banquet

Coverage

Boston

Date

May 5, 1859

Description

The Revere House provided a reading room for the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, a skilled-workers’ benevolent society named after its first president, Paul Revere. The democratic good name of the hostelry may have prompted the Boston Printers Union to select it as the venue for this banquet. The menu is a showpiece of the printer’s skill. Shortly after this banquet, the well-known hotelier Paran Stevens brought Marseilles-born chef Augustin François Anezin to the Revere House to replace Chef Gustave Feraud who was dispatched to his newest property, the luxurious Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York.