1853-1854       142 Hanover Street, Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

1854 February 28.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  February 28, 1854, Vol. XXV, No. 7257, P. 2.

Fires.  At 1½ o’clock last night fire broke out in the wooden building at the corner of Hanover and Union streets, occupied by Redding & Co., as a ten cent store, C. A. Roundy, shoe dealer, B. P. Bassett, hair dresser, A. B. Matthewson’s weather-strip manufacturer, and Wm. N. Jordan, daguerreotypist—the two latter premises being burned out, and the others badly damaged by water.   Messrs. Redding & Co.’s loss was the largest—probably about $500—their $1400 stock of teas being more or less “steeped” or smoked.  They are insured at the Manufacturers office.  Mr. Wilton has $300 insurance at the Chelsea Mutual, and Mr. Jordan $800 at the Mohawk Valley Farmers, which will cover their losses…

[1] A Directory Of Massachusetts Photographers 1839-1900. (1853 Jordan & Torsey.)