THE GREAT LEGAL HISTORY OF BOSTON (cont.)
 |
26. The Massachusetts Bar Association
The Massachusetts Bar Association occupies the handsome building at 20 West Street. |
 |
27. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
At 41 West Street is the headquarters of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, the newspaper of the Massachusetts legal community. |
 |
28. Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education
At 10 Winter Place is Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE). For the past 40 years, MCLE has offered seminars on timely legal issues. Within the past 10 years, it has expanded its educational focus to include the publication of legal practice books. |
 |
29. Locke-Ober Cafe
Next door to MCLE is the Locke-Ober Cafe, where old-money Boston society and the legal community have dined since 1875. Formed of the merger of Ober's French restaurant and Locke's New England tavern, Locke-Ober throughout its long history, has faced only two great challenges -- Prohibition and staunch resistance from the clientele to any sort of renovations. |
 |
30. Park Street Church
The Park Street Church, on the corner of Park and Tremont Streets, was erected in 1809 on the site of the old granary, which gave its name to the adjoining burying ground. William Lloyd Garrison gave his first antislavery address here on July 4, 1829.
The Park Street Church was also the scene of a colorful confrontation in 1926 between Boston's puritanical Watch and Ward Society and H.L. Mencken, the editor of the American Mercury. With a throng of cheering students in attendance, Mencken was arrested for selling copies of his magazine that contained an article making reference to sex. He was ordered arrested and was brought before a judge, who dismissed the action in an act probably tempered more by expedience than mercy.
|
Library 
