The Flower de Luce Tavern was built in 1687, and stood on the north-east corner of Bartlett and Blanchard streets.  It was there, in 1698, that a meeting was held “to settle about the Muddy river people worshipping In their house.”  Its last landlord was Samuel Ruggles.

The Punch Bowl Tavern was built in 1729 by John Ellis, and stood in Brookline, about two hundred feet west from the boundary line between Roxbury and Brookline, upon the present site of Brookline gas-works, on the south-west corner of Washington street and Brookline avenue.  It was a two-story hipped-roof house, and its enlargement from time to time, by the purchase and removal of old houses thither from Boston and vicinity, resulted in an aggregation of rooms of all sorts and sizes, and produced a new order of architecture, appropriately called “conglomerate” With its out-buildings it occupied a large space, and was of a yellowish color, with a seat running along the front under an overhanging projection of the second story.  In front and near each end were large elm-trees.  Under the west end stood a pump, which still remains.  Its sign, suspended by a high, red post, exhibited a huge bowl and ladle, overhung by a lemon-tree.  It had a large dancing-hall, and was a favorite resort for gay parties from Boston and vicinity.  It was patronized by British officers before the Revolution.  The mill-dam and the bridges destroyed its usefulness, and it was bought by Isaac Thayer, and demolished in 1833, with the exception of one of its adjuncts, which now stands on the easterly side of Brookline avenue, nearly opposite Emerald street.

Kent’s Tavern was built in 1747, and stood on the site of Grove Hall, built by, and for many years the mansion of, Thomas Kilby Jones, a famous auctioneer of Boston, and now known as the “Consumptives’ Home,” on the south-east corner of Washington street and Blue Hill avenue.  It was originally the home-stead of Samuel Payson, and was owned by John Goddard in the early part of the last century.  It ceased to be a public house in 1796.

Hazlitt’s Tavern stood on the corner of Washington and Palmer streets.  It was built in 1764, and had a deer’s head for a sign.  Afterwards it was known as the “Roebuck Tavern,” John Brooks being its last landlord.  It was first occupied as a public house in 1820, and it was the place of refuge of Edmund Kean when driven by a mob from the (old) Boston Theatre, December 21, 1825.

The Peacock Tavern was built in 1765, and stood at the south-westerly corner of Centre and Allandale streets, near the famous mineral springs.  It was kept by Capt.  Samuel Childs, who led the minutemen company of the third parish in the Lexington battle.  It was purchased in 1794, with forty acres adjoining, by the patriot Samuel Adams, and he occupied it during his gubernatorial term as a summer residence, and afterward until the close of his honorable life.

On the north-west corner of Washington and Vernon streets, where Diamond block now stands, there formerly stood an old house, which was occupied in 1805 as the Old Red Tavern, kept by Martin Pierce.