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The Boston directory. [1857], 1857
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1HERMAN'S FURNACE ESTABLISHMENT.
3The subscriber offers for sale, at wholesale or retail, his CELEBRATED PREMIUM HOT-AIR FURNACES, For Coal or Wood, in which recent improvements have been made, rendering them, in simplicity of construction, and ease of management, in durability and efficiency, as well as in all other qualities going to constitute a PERFECT FURNACE, vastly superior to any other kind offered for sale in this market. The large number recently put into Model School Houses, Churches, Seminaries, Court Houses, Hospitals, Banks, and other edifices erected for charitable, benevolent, or scientific purposes, together with first-class private dwellings, proves their superiority, and the appreciation of their merits by the public.
5Attention is also called to a large and beautiful assortment of PENRHYN MARBLE MANTELS, made of Enamelled Stone, in imitation of the higher cost styles of Marble, which, while superior to it in ability to resist acid, and in other respects, are yet offered at a much cheaper rate. Also,
7IMPROVED COOKING RANGES, the best in the market; Portable Furnaces; English, Parlor, and Chamber Grates; Flat Heater Stoves; Chimney Tops; Room and Roof Ventilators; Iron, Bronzed, Enamelled, and Plated Registers; Parlor, Office, and Cooking Stoves; Rumford Ovens, and Heating and Cooking apparatus generally.
9LEOPOLD HERMAN, New Marbled Block, . . . 336 & 338 Washington Street, (Nearly opposite the Adams House,) BOSTON.
11FIRST PREMIUM PIANO-FORTES.
13CHICKERING & SONS Have received the following awards for their exhibition of PIANO-FORTES AT THE FAIRS OF 1856:
15FROM THE Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association FOR THE BEST GRANDS, SEMI-GRANDS, and PARLOR GRANDS, "For most decided and meritorious Improvements," THE GOLD MEDAL.
17FOR THE BEST SQUARE PIANOS, THE SILVER MEDAL.
19FOR THE BEST PIANO-FORTE CASES, THE SILVER MEDAL.
21FOR THE BEST PIANO-FORTE HARDWARE, BRONZE MEDAL.
23FOR THE BEST SPECIMEN OF JIG-SAWING, BRONZE MEDAL.
25FROM THE American Institute, New York, FOR THE BEST GRAND PIANO, THE GOLD MEDAL.
27FROM THE Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, THE HIGHEST PREMIUM, A SILVER MEDAL.
29ALSO, At the Illinois State Fair, THE HIGHEST PREMIUM, A SILVER MEDAL.
31This House was established in 1823, by JONAS CHICKERING, and up to the present time has furnished 19,000 PIANOS. For the exhibition of these Pianos in the United States and in England, they have been awarded—
33Eleven Gold Medals,
34Seventeen Silver Medals,
35Four Bronze Medals.
37WARE ROOMS,
38MASONIC TEMPLE,
39TREMONT STREET,
40BOSTON.
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