In this postcard (one that we've never seen before that we won on eBay in the summer of 2007) we see the subway kiosk and the Crawford house from the edge of Pemberton Square.  The sender indicates that he or she stayed at the Crawford house in October of 1904, and even marks the room with an "X"
 

Front of a postcard promoting the Rathskeller, in the basement of the American House,
located on Hanover Street.  The text at the very bottom reads: "Site of Joseph Warren's
Residence, 1764, and the famous Earl's Coffee House, 1806-1830.
 

Back of the same postcard.  Note that by 1910 automobile use - and the difficulty
in finding a parking spot in Boston - had increased to the point where the restaurant
would arrange for parking at the nearby Sudbury Garage.
 
 

Looking south down Court Street.  The Sears Crescent Building (which still stands
today in Government Center) is on the left.  The large structure in the middle of the
Square is the kiosk for the Scollay Square subway station.
 

The postmark on the back of this card reads Boston, July 30, 9-PM, 1907.  It was addressed to Miss Margaret Silver, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.  The photographer stood at the southern corner of Pemberton Square and Scollay Square and looked north.  That's the Crawford House just behind the subway kiosk.
 

When it opened after renovations in the 1850s, the American House on Hanover Street was one of the finest in America.  On the back of this postcard was written: April 6 & 7 1915, Ladies of the G.A.R. September Convention held here.
 

A really fine aerial view of the Square after 1912.  The tall white building on the left is Scollay's Olympia, a theater, which is just down the block from the Star Theater.  The Crawford House is on the right side of the street, just behind the top of the subway kiosk.  City Hall Plaza would today be on the right and 1-2-3 Center Plaza on the left.
 

People are always springing new images on me.  Like this postcard of the famous Scollay Square eatery Patten's, which was located at the head of Court Street.  Thanks, Dick (and you, too, Ralph!)
 

Another find from Dick is this great postcard of what is now called the John Adams
Courthouse, in Pemberton Square.  Damon was apparantly a store that catered to the
many lawyers who prowled the area.
 

Another gem from Dick follows.  Bowdoin Square was just outside Scollay Square in
the West End of Boston, where other fine hotels, such as the Revere House, were also located.