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Map Makers for All tKc World CHICAGO • . : NEW YORK ^)CI.A653337 OjEC 30 1921 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE CONTENTS PAGE PAGE Boston .... 5 Hospitals and Philan- Arriving at Boston 10 thropic Societies . 91 Baggage Transfer Environs .... 94 Facilities . 1 1 Cambridge 94 Carriage and Taxicab | Brookline 96 Facilities . 1 1 Somerville . 96 Street Cars . 1 1 Medford . 97 Steamship Lines' Piers i 7 | Winchester 98 Places of Amusement 20 Everett . 98 Railroad Stations . 20 Malden . 98 Sight-Seeing . 21 Chelsea . 98 Hotels .... 2 2 Revere 99 Telegraph Headquar- Winthrop 99 ters .... 22 Newton . 99 Post Office . 22 Waltham . 100 Washington Street 23 Watertown 100 State Street 24 Dedham . lOI Tremont Street 25 Milton lOI Boylston Street . 26 QUINCY 102 Huntington Avenue 27 Lexington 102 Big Buildings . 28 Concord . 103 Places of Interest 29 Sudbury . 105 Cemeteries . 38 Salem 105 Parks and Drives . 42 Marblehead 107 Libraries and Art Danvers . 107 Galleries . 52 Beverly . 107 Educational . . 64 Newburyport 107 Colleges, Ac.\de.mies Amesbury Haverhill 107 107 AND Private Schools 67 Hingham . 107 Clubs and Societies 75 SCITUATE . 108 Public Buildings . . 80 Marshfield 108 Financial and Commer - Duxbury 108 cial 82 Plymouth . 108 Prominent Churches . 84 Provincetown 109 10-1Q21 lOM. "^^More than a store — a National institution'' — v:s:ted by tourists tli<- worl ,lbtb 16 RAND M c N A L L Y BOSTON GUIDE "Pie Alley" at some point other than at terminal should be asked for when paying fare. The liberal transfer system be- tween elevated, surface, and sub- way enables one to reach almost any part of Boston and its adjacent sub- urbs. "Bay State Sys- tem." Connections are made with cars of the Eastern Mas- sachusetts Street Railway Co., at Sullivan Sq., Scollay Sq., Everett For Copley Sq., Huntington Ave., Brookline, Chest- nut Hill, Allston, Brighton, and New- ton, take Cam- bridge Timnel and change to the sub- way at Park St. Changes in sub- way, tunnels, and on the elevated are m ade without checks. In trans- ferring from these lines to cars on the street level, one should procure a check at the booth provided for that purpose. When a change is to be made from one sur- face line to another, or to elevated, sub- way, or tunnel, points, a transfer check Royall Mansion^ Medford RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 17 Louisburg Square vStation, Mattapan Square, Neponset Bridge, and Forest Hills. This company operates cars reaching more than seventy-five towns and cities, and its lines extend to the New Hampshire and Rhode Island State lines. Boston & Worcester Street Railway. These cars have their Boston tcnninus at Park vSq., but connections may be made with them at Brookline Village or Chestnut Hill from cars through the subway. Large, comfortable cars of this line reach Newton Highlands, Newton Upper Falls, Wellesley Hills, Natick, Framingham, South Framingham, Westboro, Marlboro, Hudson, and Worcester. Certain cars run express from Chestnut Hill to Worcester. STEAMSHIP LINES' PIERS Anchor Line, to Glasgow. B. & A. Piers, East Boston. Boston & Gloucester S. S. Co., to Gloucester. Central Wharf, Atlantic Ave. Boston & Yarmouth S. S. Co., to Yarmouth, N. S., etc. Central Wharf, Atlantic Ave. Cape Cod S. S. Co., to Provincetown. Bay Line Wharf, Atlantic Ave. Clyde Line, to Charleston and Jacksonville. Lewis Wharf, Atlantic Ave. 18 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Birthplaces of the Presidents John and John Quincy Adams Quincy Cunard Line, to Liverpool. B. & A. Piers, E. Boston. Eastern S. vS. Co., to Bangor. India Wharf, Atlantic Ave. Eastern S. S. Co., to New York. India Wharf, Atlantic Central Wharf, Atlantic Co., to vSt. John, N. B. Central Wharf, 2, Ave. Eastern S. S. Co., to Portland Ave. Eastern S. S. Atlantic Ave. Leyland Line, to Liverpool. B. & A. Piers, E. Boston. Merchants & Miners Trans. Co., to Baltimore. Pier No Northern Avenue, vSouth Boston. Merchants & Miners Trans. Co. to Philadelphia. Pier No. 2, North- ern Avenue, vSouth Boston. Merchants & Miners Trans. Co., to Norfolk and Newport News. Pier No. 2, North- ern Ave., South Boston. Nantaskct Beach Steamboat Co., to Nantaskct Gardner Museum (Fenway Court), In the Fens RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 19 MERE FORMERLY STOOD GRIFFINS WHARF AT WHICH LAYNOOREOON 0EC.I8.I77J,THREE BRITISH SHIPS WITH CARGOES OF TEA. TO DEFEAT KIHG GEORGE^ TRIVIAL BUT TYRANNICAL TAX OF THREE PENCE A POUND, ABOUT NINETY CITIZENS Of BOSTQH.PARTLY DISGUISED AS INDIANS, BOARDED THE SHIPS, THREW THE CAfiGOES.THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO CHESTS IN ALL.INTO T>1ESEA AND HADE THE WORLD RING WITH THE PATRIOTIC EXPLOIT OF TMl BOSTON TEA PARTY "NOI NEtR WAS MINGLED SUCH A DRAUGHT INPALACE.HAIL.ORARBOR. ASFREtnEN BREWED AND TYRANTS QUAFFED THAT NIGHT IN BOSTON HARBOR " Atlantic Ave., Cor. Pearl Street Rowc's Wharf, Beach, to Hingham, and to Plymouth. Atlantic Ave. Ocean S. S. Co., to Savannah. Hoosac Docks, Charlestown. Nova Scotia Steamships Ltd., to Halifax, and St. Johns, N. P., Commercial Wharf, Atlantic Ave. Red Star Line, from Antwerp, Hoosac Docks, Charlestown. Sweden-Norway Line, from Christiania and Gothenburg, Mystic Docks, Charlestown. United Fruit Co., to Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Panama Canal. Long Wharf, Atlantic Ave. Furness Line, to Liver- pool. Mystic Docks, Charlestown. Furness Line to Glasgo, Mystic Docks, Charles- town. White Star Line, to the Mediterranean. Hoosac Docks to Charlestown. Christ church interior 20 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE PLACES OF AMUSEMENT American League, Fenway Park. Arlington, 419 Tremont Si. Bijou Dream, 543 Washington vSt. Boston, 539 Washington St. Arena, 238 Botolf St. Boston Opera House, Huntington Ave. Colonial, 100 Boylston St. Copley, 186 Dartmouth St. Hollis Street, Hollis St. Keith's, 545 Washington St. Majestic, 217 Tremont St. National League, Braves' Field, Allston. Orpheum, 413 Washington vSt. Park, 619 Washington St. Park Square, Providence St. Plymouth, 129 Eliot St. Shubert, 265 Tremont St. Symphony Hall, 251 Hvmtington Ave. Tremont, 176 Tremont vSt. Wilbur, 250 Tremont St. RAILROAD STATIONS The North Station, Causeway St., is nearly as large in space covered as the South Station. It contains 22 tracks, all used by trains over the Boston & Maine system. An average of 95,000 persons per day pass through this building. It contains the conveniences usually found in a modern railway terminal. Boston & Maine. North Station (Causeway St.) provides connections to points in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, northern and western Massachusetts, and the West. The South Station at Dewey Sq. (Simimer St. & Atlantic Ave.) was opened in iSgg. At that time it was the largest railway temiinal in the world. It still retains first place in the number of trains handled (660 per day) and in the number of persons using it daily (125,000). Forty million persons per year make use of its train service. The buildings cover Lowell's House. "Elmwood," Cambridge RAND M c N A L L Y BOSTON GUIDE 21 Franklin Union 41 Berkeley Street about thirteen acres and rest on 43,000 piles. The entire frontage is 3,300 feet. On the street floor are bag- gage rooms (out- going, near the Dewey Square en- trance; incoming, on the opposite or Dorchester Ave. side) waiting rooms, ticket offices, lunch room, and carriage stand. The train shed contains 28 tracks, entered from a Mid- way 600 feet long. Below the main floor is a subway floor containing two tracks laid in loops and intended ultimately for electrical suburban traffic. Above the main floor are the restaurant, offices of the roads using the station (New York, New Haven & Hartford and Boston & Albany) and offices of the Boston Terminal Compan}', by whom the station is owned and operated. New York, New Haven & Hartford. vSouth Station (At- lantic Ave.) and Back Bay Station (Dartmouth St.), operates trains to southern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York City. Boston & Albany, South Station and Trinity Place Station, reaches southwestern Massaclutsetts, New York State, and the West. Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn (ferry from Rowe's Wharf, Atlantic Ave.), affords a pleasant ride across the harbor to East Boston, and then by train along the shore through Orient Heights, Beachmont, Revere Beach, and Point of Pines, to Lynn; or by the Winthrop branch to Winthrop and its beaches. This is commonly called the Narrow Gage line. SIGHT-SEEING Sight-seeing automobiles run on regular schedules and make frequent trips around the city, and to places of historic interest. 22 RAND M c M A L L Y BOSTON GUIDE The large, comfortable automobiles of the Colonial and Royal Blue lines not only cover points in Boston but make all-day trips to Lexington and Concord, to Salem, the North Shore, and Gloucester, and down the South Shore to Plymouth. Headquarters, Hotel Brtmswick. HOTELS Adams, 553 Washington St. American House, 56 Hanover St. Avery, 24 Avery St. Beacon Chambers (men), 19 Myrtle St. Bellevue, 21 Beacon St. Brunswick, Boylston & Clarendon Sts. Buckminster, 645 Beacon vSt. Commonwealth, Bowdoin St. Copley-Plaza, Copley Sq. Copley .Square, 49 Huntington Ave. Crawford, Scollay vSq. Essex, 695 Atlantic Ave. Franklin Square (women), E. New- ton St. Lenox, Boylston & Exeter Sts. Oxford, 40 Huntington Ave. Parker House, Tremont& School Sts. Puritan, 390 Commonwealth Ave. Quincy, 47 Brattle St. Somerset, Commonwealth Ave. & Charlesgate. Touraine, Tremont & Boylston Sts. United States, 90 Beach St. Vendome, Commonwealth Ave. & Dartmouth St. Victoria, Dartmouth & Newbury Sts. Westminster, Copley Sq. Young's, Court St. TELEGRAPH HEADQUARTERS Western Union: i6q Congress St. Postal Telegraph & Cable Co. : 84 vState St. POST OFFICE The general Post Office is at Water, Devonshire, Milk Sts. and Post Office Sq. Federal St. cars from both North and South Station pass through Post Office Sq. The building contains the Federal Court, Sub-Treasury, and Weather Bureau office. Fairbanks House Dedham (1636) RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 23 The Esplanade In Post Office Square stands a memorial fountain erected in honor of George T. Anj:;ell, founder and for forty years president of the Massachusetts Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals. WASHINGTON STREET This is the lonp;est thorouj^hfare under one name in New England. It extends from Boston to Providence, Rhode Island. Within the city, its length is from Haymarket Sq. to the Ded- ham line. In the earliest record of it, it is called "the way lead- ing towards Roxbury," and at that time it was the only road across Boston Neck. The name of Washington was first given, July 4, 17S8, to that part of the street between the Roxbury line and Dover St. In 1824 it was applied to the whole length from Roxbury to Dock Sq., where the street then ended, re- placing the names Cornhill (Dock Sq. to School St), Marlboro St. (School to Sviinmer), Newbury St. (Summer to Essex), and Orange St. (Essex to Dover). It was cut through to Ha^anarket Sq. in 1872. Between State St. and Water St it is coloquially known as Newspaper Row. Washington is the most crowded street in the city, especially through the shopping district (Franklin to Boylston St.), where are located most of the largest department stores. Note: Lists of hotels, clul^s and theaters will l)e found on other pages. Haymarket Sq., Relief Station. No. 2 — Union St. No. 37— Friend St. No. 59 — Hanover St. No. 93— Elm St. No. 137 — Brattle St. No. 146 — Dock Sq., Adams Sq. No. 147 — Cornhill. No. 193 — Court St., Ames Bldg. No. 194 — Devonshire Bldg. No. 199 — vSears Bldg. No. 204— State St., Old State House. No. 209 — National Union Bank Bldg. 24 RAND M c N A L L Y BOSTON GUIDE No. 219 — Court Ave, Rear Young's Hotel. No. 239 — "Pie Alley." No. 244— Globe Bldg. No. 261— Post Bldg. No. 262 — Journal Bldg. No. 268— Water St. , Winthrop Bldg. No. 278 — Spring Lane. No. 283— School St., "Old Corner Book Store." No. 293 — Briggs Bldg. No. 294— Old South Bldg. No. 307 — Advertiser Bldg. No. 322— Milk St., Old South Meet- inghouse. No. 324 — Transcript Bldg. No. 369 — Bromfield St. No. 37^ — Jewelers Bldg. No. 378— Franklin St. No. 387 — Washington Bldg. No. 403 — Marlboro Bldg. No. 417 — Gilchrist & Co., Depart- ment Store. No. 418— Wm. Filene Sons Co., Department Store. No. 426 — Summer St. No. 435 — Winter St., Carpenter Bldg. No. 440 — A. Shuman & Co. No. 450 — Jordan, Marsh & Co., Department Store. No. 472 — Avon St. No. 477 — Magrane- Houston Co., Department Store. No. 480— Crosby Bldg. No. 483— Temple Place, Blake Bldg. No. 501 — Amory Bldg. No. 509 — West St., Carter Bldg., Bigelow Sz Kennard. No. 518— R. H. White Co., De- partment vStore. No. 564— Jefferson Bldg., The Ar- cade. No. 582 — Hayward Place. No. 600 — Washington-Essex Bldg. No. 622 — Essex St., Site Liberty Tree Tavern. No. 641 — Boylston St. No. 657 — Bovlston Bldg. No. 779— Hollis St. No. 987 — Wells Memorial Bldg. No. 1400 — Cathedral of the Holy Cross. No. 1522 — People's Palace, Salva- tion Army. No. 1550 — East Brookline St. No. 1747 — Massachusetts Ave. No. 2389— Dudley St. No. 3679 — Forest Hills Station. STATE STREET Foniierly King vSt. This street extends from Washington St. to Atlantic Ave. The old State House divides the street at its western end. Beneath it are Tunnel stations. Note: Lists of hotels, clubs and theaters will be found on other pages. No. 15 — Easton Bldg. No. 16 — Devonshire St., Devon- shire Bldg. No. 27 — Brazer Bldg. No. 30 — Merchants Bank Bldg. No. 31 — Congress St., Worthington Bldg. No. 33— State St. Trust Co. No. 38 — Exchange St. No. 40 — Union Bldg. No. 50 — Lee, Higginson & Co. No. 53 — Exchange Bldg. No. 60 — Massachusetts Bldg. No. 70— Central Bldg. No. 84— India Bldg., Postal Tele- graph Co. No. 85 — Lawrence Bldg. No. 89— Fiske Bldg. No. 92— Farlow Bldg. No. 99 — Fiske Annex. No. no — Plvmouth Bldg. No. 114— Richards Bldg. No. 117 — Broad St. No. 126 — Cunard Bldg. No. 131 — India St., Board of Trade Bldg. No. 155 — Custom House. No. 298— Atlantic Ave., Elevated and East Boston Tunnel stations. RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 25 ^^3 Copley-Plaza Hotel, Copley Square TREMONT STREET This street extends from Scollay Sq. to Huntington Ave. in Roxbury. The odd numbers are on the north or right hand side except between Bosworth and Boylston Sts., where the Granary Burying Ground and Common occupy the north side. Note: Lists of hotels, ckibs, and theaters will be found on other pages. No. 140 — Temple Place, R. H. Stearns & Co., Department vStore. No. 147 — West St., Shreve, Crump & Low Co. No. 149 — Lawrence Bldg. No. 150 — Oliver Ditson Co. No. 165 — Hastings Bldg. No. 1 70 — ^Mason St., Boston Herald. No. 172 — Avery St. No. 175 — Evans Bldg. No. 178 — Knickerbocker Bldg. No. 181— Head Bldg. No. 184— Boylston St. No. 211 — Little Bldg. No. 272— HoUis St. No. 388 — Arlington Square. No. 515— Odd Fellows Hall. No. 781 — Massachusetts Ave. No. 1365 — Roxbury Crossing. No. I — Suffolk Savings Bank. No. 18— Kimball Bldg. No. 43 — Carney Bldg. No. 55 — Houghton & Dulton Co., Department Store. No. 62 — King's Chapel. No. 63 — Beacon St. No. 64— School St. No. 73 — Tremont Bldg. No. 82 — Tremont Temple. No. 98 — Bosworth St. No. loi — Paddock Bldg. No. 102 — Bromfield St. No. no — Studio Bldg. No. 120 — Phillips Bldg. No. 122 — Hamilton Place. Park St. No. 129 — Winter St., Shepard Nor- well & Co., Department Store. No. 136 — St. Paul's Church. 26 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE BOYLSTON STREET From 641 Washington St. Note: Lists of hotels, clubs, and theaters will be found on other pages. No. 39 — Edison Electric Illuminat- ing Co. No. 50 — Young Men's Christian Union. No. 51 — Masonic Temple. No. 70 — Tremont St. No. 80— Little Bldg. No. 100 — Colonial Bldg. No. 120 — Walker Bldg. No. 160 — Vose Bldg. No. 162 — Steinert Bldg. No. 176 — Park Square. No. 184— Wauban Bldg. No. 194— White's Bldg. No. 202— L. P. Hollander & Co., Department Store. No. 240 — Church St. No. 248— Garden Bldg. No. 264 — Women's Educational & Industrial Union. No. 321 — Arlington St., Arlington St. Church. No. 334 — Bryant & Stratton. No. 359 — Universalist Bldg. No. 367 — Standish Bldg. No. 419 — Warren Chambers. No. 420 — Berkeley Bldg. No. 442 — Berkeley St., Natural History Museum. No. 462 — Stuart Bldg. No. 491— Rogers Bldg., M. I. T. School of Architecture. No. 525 — Boston University Col- lege of Business Administration. Copley Sq. No. 581 — Wesleyan Hall. No. 607 — Dartmouth St. (New) Old South Church. Public Liljrary. No. 687 — Kensington Bldg. No. 688— Exeter St., Boston Uni- versity, College of Liberal Arts. No. 711— Stone Bldg. No. 739 — Boylston Chambers. No. 939 — Tennis & Raquet Club. No. 999 — Massachusetts Ave. No. 1 1 54 — Massachusetts Histori- cal Society. No. 1 1 56 — Fenway. Boston College — Newton RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 27 Hawthorne's Birthplace Salem (1692) HUNTINGTON AVENUE This avenue extends from Copley Sq. to the Brookline line and contains most of the newer art, educational, and public buildings. Note: Lists of hotels, clubs and theaters will be found on other pages. No. 12 — Pierce Bldg. No. 25 — Nottingham Chambers. No. 30 — Huntington Chambers. No. 36— Back Bay Post Office. No. 51— Exeter St. No. 62 — Irv'ington St., Huntington Ave. Station. No. 99-145 — Mechanics Building (Garrison St. to West Newton St.). No. 177 — New Century Bldg. No. 200 — Legion of Honor Bldg. No. 219 — Christian Science Church Park. No. 240 — Temple Bldg. No. 249 — Massachusetts Ave., Hor- ticultural Hall. No. 246 — Symphony Chambers. No. 251 — Symphony Hall. No. 295 — Gainsborough Bldg. No. 300 — New England Conserva- tory of Music. No. 316 — Young Men's Christian Association. No. 416 — Tufts Medical School. No. 479 — Museum of Fine Arts. No. 505 — Wentworth Institute. No. 621 — Girls' Latin School, Bos- ton Normal School. No. 695 — Har\'ard Medical School, Collis P. Huntington Hospital, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. No. 834— Parker Hill Ave. No. 841 — House of the Good Shep- herd. No. 921 — Riverway. 28 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE BIG BUILDINGS The New Custom House, State, India, and Central Sts., will be Boston's only "sky scraper," for the United States Government is not bound by city build- ing laws, which restrict the height of other buildings to a maximum of 125 feet. The appropriation made by the Government ($r, 800, 000) was not considered sufficient to buy a suitable site and erect a new building, so it was decided to use the dignified old struc- ture as a base and build sufficiently high to give the accommodation re- quired. The founda- tions for the tower consist of six large concrete piers carried down through clay to 1 00 feet below the street level. The tower itself measures 65 by 75 feet and the apex is 498 feet from the sidewalk. Just below the 24th story there is a clock face 2 1 >< feet in diameter. The rotunda in the first and second stories, under the tower, is finished in white marble, resem- bling that of the old building. Easy inter- communication be- tween the diflierent departments is obtained C ustom House State, India & Central Streets RAND A'lcNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 29 by four swift eleva- tors. A pneumatic tube service is also provided. Boston Army Supply Base, South Boston, has the largest equipment for supplying ocean transportation. The Little Build- ing is the newest of Boston's large office buildings, and it stands on the site of the first office building in the city. It has a frontage of 229 feet on Tre- mont St. and of 107 feet on Boylston St. Besides fifteen stores and twenty- two shops it contains 600 offices between the building and the subway. Mechanics Building, Huntington Ave., contains the largest hall in the city, and there the annual Automobile Show and various fairs are held. City Hall School Street There is direct connection Boylston St. station of the PLACES OF INTEREST Boston is rich in history and tradition. Many of its old buildings are shrines to which men and women from all parts of the country make pilgrimages. A strong feeling prevails in Bos- ton against destroying houses and public buildings that have had important parts in the making of the country, and many thotisands of dollars ON THIS SITE ONCE STOOD THE Home of Samuel Adams WHO BOUGHT IT IN MAY irS* AND DIED IN IT OCTOBER 2. 1802. IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE Father Of The Revolution THIS TABLET IS PLACED BY THE ^1^ MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF I^Sk SONS OF THE REVOLUTION «QSP 1893 Winter Place, Cor. Winter St. 30 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE are lost to the city in taxes because of land occupied by historic structures. Old State House stands on Washington St. at the head of State St. It was built in 17 13 on the site of the first town house, burned in 1 7 1 1 . Although the interior of this building was burned out in 1747, the outer walls remained. It has served as town house, court house, state house, and city hall. As Province Court House it played an important part in the stirring times just preceding the Revolution. The Declaration of Independence was read from the balcony overlooking State St. In this building John Hancock was inaugurated the first governor of the commonwealth. In the Old State House will be found a fine collection of photographs and old prints of Boston as well as many relics of the colonial and Revolutionary periods. These are under the charge of the Bostonian Society. Admission is free, and the building is open each day except Sunday. The town had its beginning in the vicinity of the Old State House. The first houses were grouped around the head of the present State St.: the first meetinghouse was on the site of Aviary, Franklin Park RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 31 On the Charles River at Auburndale the present Brazer Bldg. The market place, the stocks, the pillory were all to be found here during the first quarter century of the town. The second meetinghouse stood just across from the Old State House on Washington St. Site of the Boston Massacre is marked by pecuHar round paving in State St., near the comer of Exchange St. This was the scene of a fatal clash between men of the town and British soldiers. It occured March 5, 1770, and had an impor- tant part in leading up to the Revolution. Long Wharf, in the early days of the town, started from near the corner of the present Kilby St. Here the royal governors made their formal landing; here the British soldiers entered the town; and from here they made their departure. Until after 1760, Kilby St., then called Mackerel Lane, was only a pathway along the water. Faneuil Hall, "The Cradle of Liberty," is but a short walk from the Old State House, through Exchange St. or the pictur- esquely narrow Change Ave. The first Faneuil Hall, the gift 32 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE of Peter Faneuil, was built in 1 742. The interior was destroyed by fire twenty years later, but it was at once rebuilt on the same walls. The Hall as it stands to-day dates from 1805, when the building was doubled in width and raised one story, under the direction of the famous architect Charles Bulfinch. The upper floors of the building are used as an armory by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. This is the oldest military organization in the country, having been started in 1637. Its museum contains many priceless relics, including a flag of the organization used in 1663. In the main hall may be seen Healy's painting, "Webster's Reply to Hayne." This canvas, sixteen by thirty feet, contains portraits of 130 senators and others prominent in the public life of the time. This hall is never rented, but is used free of charge for any important gathering of citizens. The first floor and basement of Faneuil Hall are still used as a market — one of the objects for which Peter Faneuil gave the original building. New Faneuil Hall, or Quincy, Market is the long building just beyond Faneuil Hall. It was built in the days of the first Mayor Quincy, during whose administration many of the streets around the building were made over what had previously been waste land and docks. In the early part of the nineteenth century a canal led from Boston ]\Iill Pond (near the present North Station) up to Quincy Market, and boats from as far north as Concord, N. H., came here by way of the Merrimac River, Middlesex Canal, and the Charles River basin. Dock Square leads out of Faneuil Hall Sq. Here for many years was located the town dock. Until a short time ago there Radcliffe College RAND M c N A T. L Y BOSTON GUIDE 33 stood at the entrance to Dock vSq. what was known as the Old vSvm Tavern, built in i6qo. Old Capen House stands on Marshall St. at ils junction wiUi Union St. It was built in 1725 and for a hundred years has been known as Atwood's Oyster House. Here the Massachusetts Spy was pubhshed in the stirrinj; times just before the Revolution. Old Marshall House stands on Marshall St. at Creek Sq. This was the residence of Ebenezer Hancock, brother of John Hancock, and deputy paymaster-general of the Con- tinental Army. On the arrival of Counl d'Estaing with his fleet, in 1778, Hancock rccci\xd a large amount of French sih'cr money. This was piled vip in the room at the left of the entrance, under guard, awaiting disbursement among the troops. Boston Stone is embedded in the wall of a building at the left of the Marshall House. Originally the stone was used for grinding paint, and it is stipposed to have been brought from England about 1700. It was probably set up in imitation of the London Stone, as a direction for the shops around. On Hanover St. side of the building there is built into the wall of the second story a reproduction of the arms of the Painters' Guild, said to ha\-c been the sign of the man who used the Boston Stone as a mill. Site of the Green Dragon Tavern, "the headquarters of the Revolution," is at 81 Union vSt. Hanover St. leads to the old North End. It recently contained one of the oldest houses in the city, for nearly opposite Clark St. was the house built by In- crease Mather in 1677. Here Cotton Mather spent part of his boyhood. Salem St. branches from Hanover and leads through the most picturesquely for- eign quarter of Boston. Soldiers & Sailors' Monument, Central Hill — Somerville Old Ship Church Hingham (1681) 34 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Prince St., which crosses Salem, still contains some interest- ing old buildings. At 130 stood the house to which Major Pitcairn was borne after being fatally wounded at Bunker Hill. Charter St. borders Copp's Hill Burying Ground on the east. On and near this street stand two of the three seventeenth century houses still remaining in Boston. Vernon or Charter House is opposite Unity St. It was built in 1698. Clough House, Vernon Place, 1695. This was a fine residence in its day and it presents the only example left in the city of- the overhanging gable. Paul Revere's Last Home stood where is now Revere Place, and his foundry was near by on Foster St. Sir William Phipps' House stood at the comer of Charter and Salem Sts. Garden Court St., between Fleet and Prince Sts. on the south side of Hanover, was the location of two of the finest houses in Boston when the North End was the "court end" of the town. They were the homes of Governor Hutchin- son and Sir Charles Henry Frankland. North Square is now the center of the Italian quarter. Once the North Meetinghouse, the real old North, stood on the east side. This was torn down by the British and used for fire- wood during the siege. Paul Revere House stands on the north side of the square. This is the oldest build- ing in the city. It stands on the site of the Increase Mather parsonage, burned in the Masonic Temple 51 Boylston Street RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 35 "great fire" of 1676. The new parsonage was on Hanover St., but the present house was built at about the same time. This was the home of Revere for thirty years — 1770- 1800. Through the efforts of the Paul Revere Memorial Association it is now restored to its original condition. The im- mense fireplaces, the ancient wall paper, the quaint little "entry," and many other fea- tures of the colonial period make this a charming spot in the midst of the babel of the foreign-speaking section. A small ad- mission fee is charged. Griffin's Wharf, the scene of the famous "Tea Party," was near the comer of Atlantic Ave. and Pearl St. ; but the water line was long ago pushed out beyond the old wharf, and the place where the cargo of tea was actually thrown overboard is now solid ground. Benjamin Franklin's Birthplace was on Milk St. opposite the Old South. Province House once stood across Washington St. from the Old South, some distance back from the street. This was the home of many of the provincial governors and after the Revolution served the commonwealth for a while as Govern- ment House. A portion of one sidewall still stands on a passageway which leads off quaint little Province Street (School to Bromfield). Old Comer Book Store. At the comer of Washington and School Sts. stands the old building made famous by its use as a book store for nearly three quarters of a century. It was built in 1 7 1 2 . During the years it was occupied by Ticknor & Fields it was a gathering place for literary celebrities. Archway under Old State House 36 RAND M c N A L L Y BOSTON GUIDE "Pie Alley." The narrow little street first to the north of the Old Corner leading from Wash- ington St. to Court Sq., is named Williams Court, but it is familiarly known as Pie Alley. It is a very busy place when the crowds from "Newspaper Row" are getting their noonday meal. Near the Court Square end there could until re- cently be seen over the door of an eating-house the sign of the Bell- in-Hand, dated 1795. King's Chapel Burying Ground, Tremont Street, was estab- lished soon after the beginning of the colony, if not the very vera the town was settled. The first burial here was made on Februarv 18, 1630: "Capt. Welden,a hopeful younge gent & an experienced souldier died at Charles- town of a consumption, and was burycd at Boston with military funeral." Here are the graves of Governor Winthrop and his two distinguished sons, Fitz John and Wait Still; of Rev. John Cotton ; of John Daven- port, the founder of New Ha\Tn, Conn.; of Roger Clapp, the first settler in Dorchester, and of very many of the prominent persons of the colonial period. In one of the tombs were deposited the remains of the wife of John Winslow, who, as Mary Chilton, according to tradition, was the first woman of the Mayflower's little com- pany to touch American soil. Among the gravestones in the cemetery is one that has a most remarkable history. At some time the stone was removed from the grave it marked and was lost. In 1830, when excavations were being made near the Old State House, it was found several feet below the surface of State St. It is of green stone and is inscribed: Angell Fountain Post Office Square RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 37 HERE : LYETH THE : BODY : OF : MR. WILLIAM : PADDY : AGED 58 YEARS : DEPARTED THIS : LIFE : AUGUST THE [28] 1658. On the reverse is this singular stanza of poetry: HEAR , SLEAPS . THAT BLESED . ONE . WHOES . LIEF GOD . HELP . VS . ALL . TO . LIVE THAT . SO . WHEN . TIEM . SHALL . BE THAT . WE . THIS . WORLD . MUST . HUE WE . EVER . MAY . BE . HAPPY WITH . BLESED . WILLIAM . PADDY. Louisburg Square. With its tall elms enclosed with iron fence, and its little marble statues of Columbus and Aristides at either end, Louisburg Sq. is a quaint, quiet, and restful spot. It is on the west side of Beacon Hill, lying between Mt. Vernon and Pinckney Sts. At number 10 was the last home in Boston of Louisa M. Alcott, and there her father died. William Dean Howells lived at number 4 when he was editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Number 20 is interesting because Jenny Lind was married there. ,, ,^ _^ Mount Vernon St., with the home of Charles Francis Adams during the later years of his life at number 57; the last home of Thomas Bailey Aldrich at 59, and that of William Ellery Channing at 83, is of scarcely less interest. 84 Pinckney St., Aldrich made his first home, and there the "Story of a Bad Boy" was issued. Between 1859 and 187 1, Oliver Wendell Holmes lived at 164. Charles St. James T. Fields once lived at 148, and Aldrich moved to 1 3 T from Pinckney St. Chestnut St., num- ber 50 was the home of Post Office 38 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Francis Parkman, number 43 was the last residence of Richard H. Dana, and 29 was once the home of Edwin Booth. Beacon St., OHver Wendell Holmes had his last town house at 296, and at 241 was the residence of Julia Ward Howe. CEMETERIES (Note: King's Chapel Burying Ground Page 36) Granary Burying Ground gets its name from the town granary which once stood on the ground now occu- pied by Park Street Church. It was established but a few years later than the one at King's Chapel, and it has become even more famous. Here are the graves of three signers of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine; of nine governors (including Hancock); of Samuel Sewall the stern judge but happy diarist of witchcraft times; of John Hull the mint master, who gave with his daughter, on her marriage to Sewall, her weight in pine tree shillings; of Peter Faneuil, who gave the "Cradle of Liberty", and Paul Revere, the versatile mechanic and ardent patriot. Here, too, are buried "Mother Goose", and, Thomas Fleet, who gathered and printed the many "Melodies." The most conspicuous monument is that erected by Benjamin FrankHn in memory of his father and mother. It bears this inscription: Beacon Monument Beacon Hill Old Manse-Concord RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 39 Josiah Franklin and his wife Abiali lie here interred. They lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty-five years, and without an estate or any gainful employment, by constant labor and honest industry maintained a large family comfortably, and brought up thirteen children and seven grandeliildren respectably. From this instance, reader, be encouraged to diligence in thy calling, and distrust not Providence. He was a pius and prudent man; She a discreet and virtuous woman. Of quaint epitaphs there are not a few. One of the most interesting is that "In memory of Daniel Jones, Junr A. M., Who having been early deprived of a distinguishing genius By a disease of Body made a happy exit August 23, 1779 in the 29th year of his age." But quaintest of all are the curious lines to the memory of Mary Brackett, who passed away in 1679. Under these clods a pretious gemmly hear Belovd of God & of her husband dear Pius and prudent helpful to neighbors all By night and day whenever they did call Pelican like she freely spilt her blood To feed her chickens & to do them good Copp's mil Burying Ground — Mather Tomb on Right Hull Street 40 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Copp's Hill Burying Ground is on Hull St. It contains the tombs of the Alalhcrs, Edmund Hart, builder of "Old Ironsides," and many other noted men of the colonial period. Opposite the cemetery there stood until recent years the old Galloupe House, General Gage's headquarters during the siege. On the summit of the hill the British set up a battery at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill and therewith set fire to Charlestown. On the same spot, a century earlier, stood the windmill, seen in early prints, "to grind the settlers' corn." Mount Auburn Cemetery lies in Cambridge and Water- town. It is reached by the Cambridge Tunnel and cars for Mount Auburn and Watertown, or by surface cars to Mount Auburn over Harvard Bridge. It is a pleasant automobile ride from Boston by way of the Larz Anderson Bridge. Mount Auburn was the first of the garden cemeteries, and the uneven surface of its i6o acres gives opportunity for attractive arrange- ment of avenues and paths. On the highest hill is a stone tower, from the top of which a fine view may be had, not only of the cemetery but of the surrounding country. The office building and brownstone chapel are at the entrance. Within the vestibule are marble statues of John Winthrop, John Adams, James Otis and Joseph Story. In the number of distinguished persons buried within its enclosure, Mount Auburn leads among cemeteries. The grave of James Russell Lowell is but a short distance from the chapel, on Fountain Ave. On Indian Ridge Path, near by, is a marble sarcophagus bearing the single name Longfellow. Near Halcyon Lake, on Lime Ave., is the lot of Oliver Wendell Holmes. On Halcyon Ave., the tomb of Mary Baker Eddy. Among the many other persons of note who lie buried in this cemetery are : Char- lotte Cushman (Palm Ave.), Edward Everett (Magnolia Ave.), Charles Sumner (Arethusa Path), Charles Bulfinch (Bell wort Path), Louis Agassiz (Bellwort Path), Margaret Fuller (Pyrola Path), Ed- win Booth (Anenome Path), Rufus Choate (Walnut Ave.), James T. fc-xM^3 i''**. ' . Ill r~ ^ -■ 1 ij^^^^^^^^^ ,,i Memorial to Those Who Died in the Civil War Mount Auburn Cemetery RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 4\ Fields (Elder Path), Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Pine Ave.), Phillips Brooks (Mimosa Path), William Ellery Channing (Greenbrier Path). ' One of the striking objeets in the cemetery is the granite Sphinx, the work of Martin Mill- more and the gift of Jacob Bigelow. It is a memorial to those who died to preserve the Union. Forest Hills Cemetery occupies a beautiful tract of 256 acres in the Jamaica Plain sec- tion of Boston. By automobile, one may enjoy a delightful ride through the Fens and Jamaica Park to the Main Entrance of the cemetery. From the Elevated Terminal or New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad station at Forest Hills, the nearest gate is at the head of Tower St. In beauty of location and arrangement. Forest Hills is one of the finest of modern cemeteries. The Milton Hill section overlooks a wide expanse of country to the north. Firemen's Memorial Forest Hills Cemetery Bell Tower Forest Hills Cemetery and the quiet shade of the murmuring pines may be enjoyed on the southwest side. The pretty Httle Lake Hibiscus and the picturesque bell tower add to the charm. Outcrops of Roxbury "pudding stone" give a unique effect to the grounds. Among the memorials are excellent bronze figures by Daniel Chester French and Lee Lawrie. The Soldiers' Lot and the Firemen's Lot are marked by attractive monuments. Many persons of distinction are buried in this cemetery and among them may be mentioned Gen. Joseph Warren, the hero of Bunker Hill (Mount Warren), Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn (Dearborn Hill), Rear Admiral Winslow (Orange Path), Rear Admiral Thatcher (Lantana Path), Maj. Gen. William Heath (Nesutan Ave.), W^illiam Lloyd Garrison (Smilax Path), Edward Everett Hale (Petunia Path), Fanny Davenport (Arethusa Path). 42 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Other cemeteries of interest, aside from those mentioned under Historic Places: EHot, Eustis & Washington Sts., Roxbury (1630). Dorchester North, Stoughton St. & Columbia Road (1633). Westerly, Centre near LaGrange St., West Roxbury (1683). Mount Hope, Walk Hill St., Roxbury. Evergreen, Commonwealth Ave. opposite Foster St., Brighton. Cedar Grove, Adams & Milton Sts., Dorchester. Mount Calvary, Mount Hope St., W. Roxbury. PARKS AND DRIVES Boston Common is unique among municipal parks. It has existed from the beginning of the town, for it was set apart in 1634 as a "place for a trayning field" and for "the feeding of cattell." Although it is many years since cattle were pastured upon the Common, it is still used to some extent as a training field, for The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company holds its parade and drum-head election there each year. The Common contains about fifty acres, bounded by Tremont, Park, Beacon, Charles, and Boylston Sts. In the early days water from the Charles River basin flowed up to its edge. The present "Frog Pond" is artificial, but there was once a little pond near by. On the highest point stands the Army and Navy Monument, the work of Martin Millmore, erected in 1877 "To the men of Boston who died for their country on land and sea in the war which kept the Union whole, destroyed slavery, and maintained the constitution." The figures at the base of the monument represent the Soldier, the Sailor. History, and Peace. The sculp- tured figures above typify North, South, East, and West. At the top of the shaft is a statue eleven feet high representing "Genius of America." Bronze reliefs between the pedestals signify "The Departure for the -^ War," "The Sanitary Commission," "The Return from the War," ' "The Departure of the Sailor from Home." Shaw IVlemorial Boston Common RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 43 This monument stands upon the spot where the British erected a redoubt during the Siege. On the Tremont St. side of the Common, near Lafayette Mall, stands a granite shaft crowned by a bronze figure of "Revolution" which commemorates the "Boston Massacre". It is by Robert Kraus and was erected Oliver Wendell Holmes Walk "Long Path" Boston Common 44 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE in 1 888. The Shaw Memorial, by Aug- ustus St. Gaudens, stands on the Bea- con St. side, facing the State House. It represents Col. Robert Gould Shaw mounted and rid- ing beside his col- ored troops, the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts In- fantry. Col. Shaw was killed while leading an attack on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, when only twenty-five years old. One of the conspicuous objects of the Common is the Brewer Fountain on the Park St. side. It is a copy in bionze of a fountain designed by the French artist, Lienard, which was awarded a gold medal at the World's Fair of 1855. The "Long Path," made dear to many through the walk taken there by the "Autocrat" and the schoolmistress, runs from the corner of Boylston and Tremont Sts. to the Guild Memorial steps. It passes the spot where once stood the "Great Elm" from the limbs of which executions are sup- posed to have taken place in the early days. This tree, old when the town was founded, lasted until blown down in a Hooper-Hathaway House (1683) Formerly called "The Old Bakery" — Salem RAND M c N A L L Y B T) S 'l' O N O U 1 D E 45 storm of 1876. On tlie Boylston St. side of the Common is the old Central Bur^-ing Ground, established in 1756, in which is the grave of Gilbert vStuart. Public Garden is just across Charles St. from the Common. It is entirely made of filled-in land, and is the beginning of the Back Bay district. The filling of the Back Bay was done by the commonwealth and the Boston Water Power Co. in the years following 1857. The commonwealth owned 108 acres, and after making large gifts to institutions as well as reservations for streets and buildings, it realized the tidy sum of four million dollars from the sale of the made land. The Public Garden is about one half the size of the Common. It is the beauty spot of the city during the summer months, a huge flower garden with a great variety of trees and shrubs as well as flowers. An artificial pond of irregular shape, with picturesque swan boats and graceful swans, adds much to its beauty. Fountains, statues, and monuments enhance the charm. There are several excellent monuments in the Public Garden, the last erected being that of Wendell Phillips by Daniel Chester French in 1914. It stands on the Boylston St. side. Statues to Charles Sumner (by Thomas Ball, 1878) and Col. Thomas Cass (Richard E. Brooks, 1889) are also jgHjn 1 .v^u:||^ d'jT--';i:..::i:r -'?'^" i|-^-r.'. B H^S^I MjBjlMH^ s^s BKm^ ^fflBM^^^^^^Z^^' .^H tj^j ■■^■111^^ V Public Garden 46 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE on the Boylston St. side. Facing Arlington St. Church is the monument to William Ellery Channing. Arlington St. Church was the successor to Federal St. Church where Channing preached. The statue by Herbert Adams stands within a canopy designed by Vincent C. Griffith. It was erected in 1903. Near Beacon St. is the bronze statue of Edward Everett by W. W. Story (1867). The Ether Monument is a shaft of granite and red marble (by J. Q. A. Ward, 1868). The equestrian statue of Washington, by Thomas Ball, stands near the center walk, facing Arlington St. It was erected in 1869 through popular subscription. The statue of Edward Ever- ett Hale (Bela Pratt, 1912)13 near Charles St. Commonwealth Ave., starting at Arling- ton St. opposite the Public Garden, is the beginning of a system of parkways that ex- tends for many miles. These can be best appreciated by driving through them, but Edward Everett Hale entrance cau bc made at several points from Public Garden trollcy liucs. Commonwcalth Ave. from Arlington St. to Charlesgate is lined with fine residences, apartment houses, and hotels. Several statues of interest are located on Commonwealth Ave. That to Alex- ander Hamilton (by William Rimmer, 1865) was the first statue cut from granite. The General John Glover is by Martin Millmore and was erected in 1875. William Lloyd Garrison, by Olin L. Warner, 1886. Leif Ericson, by Anne Whitney, 1886. The Fens are reached at Charlesgate. They consist of 115 acres of land, stream, and ponds, artistically laid out with driveways. Bordering on The Fens are some of the best of Boston's buildings. Statues of John Boyle O'Reilly near Boylston St., and Patrick A. Collins (by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Kitson, 1908), Commonwealth Ave. near the Fenway, are well worth attention. Riverway (forty acres) opens from The Fens and is the boundary between Boston and Brookline, through the Long- wood district. This may be reached by Brookline Village cars. Leverett Park (sixty acres) lies partly in Boston (Roxbury district) and partly in Brookline. Jamaicaway connects Leverett Park with Jamaica Park. RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 47 HERE WENDELL PHILLIPS resided during forty years DEVOTED BY HIM TO EFFORTS TO SECURE THE ABOUTION OF AFRICAN SLAVERY IN THIS COURTRX THE CHARMS OF HOMC.TTIE EMJCrrMERT OF WULTH AMD UARHIIKJ EVEN THE KINDLY RECOGNITION OF HIS FELLOW CinZUS WERE BY HIM ACCOUNTED AS NAUGHT COMPARED miH DVTt HE UVEO TO SEE JUSTICE TKIUMPHANT. FREEDOM UNIVERSAL AND TO RECEIVE THE TARDY PRAISES OF HIS FORMER OPPOflERB THE BUSSINGS OF THE POOR THE FRIENDLESS AND THE OPPRESSED ENRICHED HIM. IN BOSTON IS WAS BORN 29 NOVEMBER 1811 AND DIED 2 JANMRr lfiA4 THIS TABLET WAS incCTCD W ia»4 Br OMOCK Or TW OTY COUMCaOT eoSTOM. ^ r Harrison Ave., Cor. of Essex Street Jamaica Park — The latter is a beautiful tract of I20 acres, includ- ing Jamaica Pond, which it sur- rounds. The grounds are laid out with walks and drives, and boating may be enjoyed on the pond. The park may be reached by a short walk from the Pond St. stop of the Jamaica Plain cars by way of Tremont St. Arborway connects Jamaica Park with Franklin Park and Arnold Arboretum. Franklin Park may be reached through the Arboretum, or directly from Arborway, or by electric cars on Blue Hill Ave. This is a big pleasure park of 600 acres, with many attractions — Play stead, Sheepfold, Deer Park, Zoo, Aviary. Much of the park is still left in its natural beauty. Arnold Arboretum is the largest and finest tree museum in the world. Two hundred and twenty-three acres are largely given up to trees and shrubs — thousands of varieties from many parts of the globe. Miles of walks and paths take one through charming natural scenery and won- derfully arranged artificial beds. Great masses of laurel, rhododen- drons, roses, lilacs, and hvmdreds of other flowering shrubs in their season, set off by evergreens or thick growths of glossy green deciduous trees, make the Arboretum one of the most beautiful spots to be found Wadsworth House Harvard University 48 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE anywhere. This tract of land was formerly a part of the estate of Benjamin Bussey, who bequeathed it to Harvard University for a school of aj:^riculture and horticulture. The Bussey Insti- tute was established in 1870, and the Arboretum was begun two years later. Under an agreement between the university and the city (to hold for 999 years), Harvard maintains and develops the Arboretum, while Boston builds and cares for the roads, and polices the grounds. The Arboretum may be easily reached from the Forest Hills terminal of the elevated. West Roxbury Park connects Arnold Arboretum with the Stony Brook Reservation of the Metropolitan Park System. Franklin Field (seventy-seven acres) is a short distance on Blue Hill Ave. beyond Franklin Park. It is given up to out-door sports — base ball, tennis, foot ball, skating, and other games. Dorchesterway connects Franklin Park with Strandway, through Columbia Road, and so on to Marine Park. Strandway contains 260 acres bordering the shore of Old Harbor in South Boston. Marine Park is the pleasure excursion point of South Boston. There are bath houses, cafes, boats, canoes, and launches. An aquarium has been recently established. A pier of 1,300 feet stret- ches into the bay and is crowded with plea- sure seekers on pleasant days. A bridge con- nects the park with Castle Island, on which stands old Fort Inde- pendence. Here was Castle William of colo- nial days, and here Paul Revere had command of the garrison during part of the Revokition. Marine Park is reached by City Point cars. Wood Island Park of 2 1 2 acres on the har- bor side of East Boston, fitted out with bath houses, diamonds, and courts ; 'Old Ironsides" Charlestown RAND M c N A L L Y B O S T O N G U I D E 49 Whittier's Birthplace Haverhill Chestnut Hill Re- servoir in Brigh- ton; and Charlesbank, between Camb- ridge Bridge and the Dam on Charles River, are well worth notice. The Boston Park System, with its many miles of drives, bridle paths, and walks, is but a small part of the public grounds in and around the city. The Metropolitan Park System has its own commission and police. It contains some of the most interesting places in New England; has twelve miles of seashore, forty-five miles of river banks, and maintains more than one hundred miles, of parkways and drives. The cost of purchase, iinprovements, and maintainance is met by the commonwealth and ap- portioned among the thirty- eight towns and cities that make up the district. Blue Hills Reservation contains nearly 5,000 acres in five towns and cities — Milton, Braintree, Canton, Randolph, and Quincy. Great Blue Hill is the high- est point of land on the Atlantic coavSt of the United States south of Maine. On its top is a ineteorological observatory. A fine view of Boston harbor can be obtained from the hill, and many miles of walks and drives are laid out through the reservation. The res- ervation is reached at small cost by taking the elevated Church of the Presidents, Quincy 50 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE to Egleston Square, surface cars from there to Mattapan, and then taking a "jitney". Or, it is a direct drive from Franklin Park by way of Blue Hill Ave. Charles River. The Metropolitan Park Commission controls twenty- seven miles of river banks along the Charles within the limits of Boston, Cambridge, Water- town, Newton, Waltham, Weston, and Wellesley. Drives are maintained beside the river in many places. The lower basin, protected from the tide by the Charles River Dam, furnishes an ideal place for boat and swim- ming races. Above Waltham, canoeing is the attraction. At Auburndale and Riverside are many boat houses where canoes can be rented at reasonable rates. On a pleasant holiday thousands of canoes are upon the water. The Metro- politan police keep the rivci well patrolled in order to promptly Paul Revere House (1676) North Sciuare Massachusetts Institute of Technology RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 51 rescue any unfortunate enough to capsize. Riverside is reached by Boston & Albany trains, or by electric cars by way of Newton Boulevard. Hemlock Gorge Reservation in Newton, Wellesley, and Needham covers one of the most beautiful parts of the river. Here Echo Bridge carries the water pipes of the Metropolitan system across a rocky gorge. It may be reached at Newton Upper Falls by cars of the Boston & Worcester line. Middlesex Fells contains 1,900 acres lying within Maiden, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, and Winchester. It is easily reached by Spot Pond cars from SulHvan Sq. The country is very uneven, varied by hills, lakes and streams. Revere Beach is the great excursion point for the crowds seeking sea breezes or a dip in the ocean. It is half an hour's ride by electric car from Scollay Sq., or by the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad from Rowe's Wharf. On a hot day the State Bath House accommodates many thousands with the use of bathing suits at moderate prices. It is not uncom- mon for 100,000 persons to visit the beach on Sunday or a holiday. Revere Beach may be reached over a continuous line of parkways from Broadway, Somerville. Nantasket Beach is much like Revere, but owing to its greater distance from Boston the crowds are somewhat smaller. Boats of the Nantasket line leave Rowe's Wharf at frequent intervals, and the fare is fifty cents. It is also a pleasant automobile ride through Dorchester, Quincy, Weymouth, and Hingham. At Nantasket the amusement features are largely confined to Paragon Park. As at Revere, a state bath house assures bathing facilities at reasonable prices. Other sections of the Metropolitan Park System are: Stony Brook Reservation of 463 acres in the West Roxbury and Hyde Park sections of Boston. It has densely wooded hills and fine drives around Muddy Pond. It is con- nected with Arnold ^^ho Bridg^Newton Upper Falls Arboretum by West Hemlock Gorge Reservation 52 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Roxbury Parkway, and may be reached by Dedham cars from Forest Hills. Beaver Brook Reservation contains fifty-eight acres in Belmont and Waltham. Here are to be found the famous Wavcrly oaks. Wavcrly car from Harvard Scj. Hart's Hill, thirty-three acres in Wakefield. Boston & Maine Railroad, or trolley from Sullivan Sq. Mystic Valley Boulevard furnishes a delightful drive along the Alystic River and through Medford and Winchester. Neponset River Reservation, through Dorchester, Milton, Hyde Park, Dedham, Wcstwood, and Canton. King's Beach and Lynn Shore, along the shore of Lynn and Swampscott. Winthrop Shore, with a broad boulevard from which an excellent view of the harbor may be secured. Quincy Shore, a reservation of thirty-eight acres along Quincy Bay. Furnace Brook Parkway, a drive of a little more than four miles which connects Quincy vShore with the Bkie Hills Reserva- tion. LIBRARIES AND ART GALLERIES Boston Public Library occupies a conspicuous position in Copley Sq. It is of the Italian Renaissance type and very Public Library RAND McNAT. LY BOSTON GUIDE 53 Entrance to Public Library satisfactory in dcsij^^n. The architects were McKim,. Mead & White. The building is 225 feet long by 227 feet deep and surrounds a central court. On the Copley Sq. side is the inscription: "The PubHc Library of the City of Boston, Built by the People and Dedicated to the Advancement of Learning." The corner stone was laid in 1888, and the building was opened to the public in 1895. Its cost, including land, was $2,500,000. The figures representing Science and Art in front of the building are from designs by Bela L. Pratt. The entrance doors of bronze show figures of Music, Poetry, Truth, Romance, Wisdom, and Knowledge, and arc the work of Daniel Chester French. In the vestibule stands a bronze statue of Sir Henry Vane by Frederick Mac Monnies. On the first floor are to be found the periodical and newspaper rooms. The fonner contains all the current magazines, with files of back numbers ; and the latter, through the generosity of William C. Todd, who gave $50,000 for the purpose, contains more than 300 newspapers from all parts of the world. Across the central court, at the rear of the building, is the patent room, with the best and most complete collection of pubHcations relating to patents to be found outside of Washing- ton. In this part of the building is also the Department of 54 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE School Street looking towards Beacon Street Documents and Statistics, with a large and constantly growing collection of statistical publications and many rare manuscripts. Adorning the central staircase are marble lions by Louis St. Gaudens, given by the Second and Twentieth Regiments, Massachusetts Volunteers, in memory of comrades who fell in the Civil War. The decorations on the walls above the stairways are by Puvis de Chavannes. The separate panels represent Chemistry, Physics, Philosophy, etc. At the left of the stairs as we reach the second floor, are the children's rooms. Some ten thousand volumes are here on open shelves, so arranged that the children can make their own selections of books, and read them at large tables suited to their convenience. Special attendants instruct the children in the use of the library and help them in the choice of books. Copies of school books used in the city are kept in the chil- RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 55 dren's reference rooms, and many pupils come here to study or write compositions. Across the long corridor is the delivery room. Here are to be seen the well known mural paintings by Edwin A. Abbey, illustrating The Quest of the Holy Grail. Bates Hall occupies the full length of the Copley Sq. side. This is the main reading room of the library — 218 feet long, forty feet wide, and fifty feet from floor to crown of arches. It is named in honor of Joshua Bates, a native of Massachusetts who became head of the banking firm of Barring Brothers of London. He gave $50,000 in cash and an equivalent amount in books when the Boston Public Library was first established, in 1852. This was the first free circulating library supported by general taxation. A large collection of reference books is kept on open shelves in Bates Hall, w^iere anyone can take them for use at the long tables. Here, too, will be brought, upon Little Building, Tremont and Boylston Streets 56 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE filling out proper slips, ciny number of books for use in the room. These privileges are open to all, whether residents of Boston or not. This room is well filled at all times with men and women, young and old, hard at work with books around them. On the upper floor are located the special libraries, Fine Arts Department, etc. Of the special libraries, the Brown Library con- tains more than 8,000 volumes relating to music; the Barton Col- lection of 14,000 vol- umes of Shakespearian works is unequaled in this country; the Tichnor Library in- cludes nearly 7,000 vSpanish works. In the Fine Arts Department there are excellent books relating to archi- tecture, painting, scul]3- ture, and the other fine arts, besides a very large collection of paintings, drawings, and photo- graphs. The wall decorations in the hall of this floor are by John Singer Sargent, and when completed will represent "The Tri- umph of Religion." The frieze at the north end presents the Hebrew Prophets and that at the south end "The Dogma of Religion. ' ' Other panels and lunettes have recently been added . Grand Stairway, Public Library RAND M c N A L L Y BOSTON GUIDE 57 The lil)rary has a collection of a million volumes, and books are being added at the rate of al)out 30,000 a year. A system of branch and school libraries, with daily dcHveries from the central buildinj^^ makes the liljrary a\'ail- al)le to all parts of the city. This gives an annual circulation of about I, goo, 000, besides the very many thou- sand volumes used within the building. Many lectures are given at the library during the year, and frequent exhibitions are held of photographs, paintings, engravings, and other works of in- terest. The library is open from g a.m. (Sundays 12 m.) to g p.m., and during the winter months until 10 p.m. Librarian, Charles F. D. Beldcn. Fenway Court, often called "Mrs. Jack Gardner's Palace," stands in the Fens between the Museum of Fine Arts and Simmons College. Its legal title is "The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum of Art." The building is an Italian palace built by Mrs. John L. Gardner from materials brought from Venice. It contains many rare works of art and is open to the public on certain occasions. Boston Athenaeum, io>2 Beacon St., was founded in 1807. Only stocldiolders and those to whom the proprietors grant admission cards are entitled to privileges, but strangers and those doing research work are always welcomed with courtesy. For many years the Athenaeum maintained an art gallery, but most of its valuable paintings are now deposited with the Museum of Fine Arts. Among these is Stuart's portrait of Washington. The librar\" contains more than 250,000 volumes, many being exceedingly rare books. The library given to King's Chapel by William and Mary in i6gS, and 700 \-olumes Entrance to Children's Room Public Library 58 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE of George Washing- ton's private libra- ry, are valued possessions. The Athenaeum con- tains the finest collection of photo- graphs and old prints of American houses to be found anywhere. It also has many thousand pamphlets and very good files of old newspapers. The Athenaeum has been the work- shop of many liter- ary celebrities. Among the famous New England men who have been proprietors are Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Francis Parkman, and William H. Prescott. William F. Poole, originator of Poole's Index, was at one time its librarian. The building is of dignified design with a classic front of brown freestone. It is being fireproof ed, and greatly enlarged by the addition of two stories and a sub-basement; but the work is being done in such a way that the present fagade will not be changed. Librarian, Charles Knowles Bolton. New England Historic Genealogical Society is located at 9 Ashburton Place (near the State House). In many respects this is the most important genealogical society in the country. Its library contains more than 150,000 books and pamphlets, making up the best known collection of works along genealogical lines. It is open to all, without charge, and is freely consulted by persons from many parts of the United States. The society publishes the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (established 1847), a magazine that prints vital statistics from old town records and very many other things of interest to the genealogist. Librarian, William P. Greenlaw. Sir Henry Vane Public Library RAND IvIcNALLY BOvSTON GUIDE 59 Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, until recently located in the Genealogical Society's building, has bought and now occupies the old Otis House, at the corner of Cambridge and Lynde Sts. This organization was formed "to preserve the finest of New England's old buildings, and to create, in connection with its office, a New England Museum for the care of smaller antiquities." It has acquired several interesting old houses, and restored them to the condition of their early days. Besides this, it has stimulated other societies in preserving old buildings of interest. It frequently holds exhibits of such articles as miniatures, sil- houettes, samplers, and colonial furniture. Secretary, William Sumner Appleton. Massachusetts Historical Society is located on Boylston St. and Fenway (Ipswich St. Chestnut Hill car). It was founded in 1791 and is said to be the oldest historical society in the world. Its library contains more than 50,000 volumes relating to the early history of Massachusetts and New England. The society has many rare and very valuable letters, papers. A Sargent Panel Public Library 60 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE and other documents. Among these are beautiful hand-made books that date back to the eleventh century. One of the society's most interesting relics is that of the crossed swords of Captain John Linzee of the British navy and Colonel William. Prescott of the Ainerican Army. A touch of romance is given them from the fact that Prescott's grandson married Linzee's granddaughter. These swords fonnerly hung in Prescott's library, and they are mentioned in Thackcry's "Virginian." They are now mounted and hang over the door of the Dowse Library. Massachusetts State Library, State House, has a large collection of volumes of statutes, legal documents, and works on political economy and sociology. Social Law Library is in the vSuffolk County Court House, Pembcrton vSq. (near State House). It was founded in 1814 and contains more than 20,000 law books. General Theological Library, 53 Mt. Vernon St. (near State House), has an excellent collection of books on theological, religious, and sociological subjects. Congregational Library, 14 Beacon St., has more than 100,000 books and pamphlets on early New England religious history and literature, and on many other subjects. Massachusetts Military Historical Association, Cadets' Armory, Columbus Ave. and Ferdinand St., has what is said to be the best tnilitary library in the country. Boston Medical Library, 8 Fenway, contains more than 30,000 books and paniphlets and receives regularly more than 300 periodicals. It maintains a hall for meetings of the leading medical societies. Emerson's Home^ Concord RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 61 Museum of Fine Arts (Brookline Village car by Huntington Ave.) was founded in 1870 and opened in the building of the Boston Athenaeum. In 1876 new quarters in Copley Sq. were occupied, although the building was not complet- ed until three years later. In i8go the building was nearly doubled in size, but even this space was soon outgrown. The present site of twelve acres was secured in 1899, at a cost of $1,200,000, including later improvements. Several years were spent in study of museums and art galleries in this country and abroad, as well as in special study of lighting effects, before the form of the new building was decided upon. As then completed, it was open- ed to the public in 1909, provision being made for additions as required. The original part was no more than finished when a gift by Mrs. Robert D. Evans made possible the building of the new Fenway front. The building is of Maine granite, and when completed will occupy a quadrangle 486 by 630 feet. It may be described as a group of museums under one roof, as each department is a museum complete within itself and may be visited without going through any other department; yet all are so arranged and related that they may be visited in proper sequence. The space in each is devoted to collections compactly arranged and to rooms for study. The design of each is detemiincd by the light needed. The Museum of Fine Arts ranks among the most important art museums of the world. As a whole it is excelled in this country only by the Metropolitan Museum of New York, and in some departments it has no superior. The Japanese art collection is the largest and richest to be found outside Japan. Museum of Fine Arts Main Entrance 62 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE The Charles River Basin The art galleries contain some of the best American productions and a rare collection of "old masters." On the lawn in front of the Museum stands Cyrus Dallin's beautiful bronze statue, "The Appeal to the Great Spirit." On Sunday afternoons there are lectures in the galleries of the museum, upon subjects pertaining to the exhibits — either to seated audiences or by speakers who accompany visitors in circuits through the galleries. On other days, officers of the museum act as docents so far as other work will permit, each RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 63 within the Hmit of his own department. This work is arranj^cd as follows : Monday, prints ; Tuesday, classical art ; Wednesday, Chinese and Japanese art; Thursday, Egyptian art; Friday, Western art ; Saturday morning, pictures. Although this service is free, except for the general admission fee, application should be made by letter to the supervisor of education. Visitors desiring to see all the departments at one visit are invited to make use of the Guide to the chief exhibits (price Hotel Touraine Tremont and Boyleston Streets G4 R A X D M c X A L L Y B O S T O X G U I D E Appeal to the Great Spirit Museum of Fine Arts tion of stuffed animals also has many botanical speci- mens and a larj^^e collection of shells. On the third floor is the splendid Lafresnaye collec- tion of birds and eggs. Its library of more than 30,000 volumes is much consulted by stu- dents. Admission, free. EDUCATIONAL Boston retains her reputation as a center of learning with no fewer than nine colleges and universities in her immediate vicinity. five cents). The museum has an excellent library of u'orks on art, and maintains a school of drawing and painting. The institution has been svipported entirely by the generosity of its friends, with no appropriation from city or state. Admission is free. Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays i p.m. to 5 p.m. Natural History Museum is at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley Sts. The build- ing was erected soon after the Back Bay was filled in. It contains an excellent collec- and skeletons of extinct fauna. It Entrance Hall Museum of Fine Arts RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 65 There arc, besides, many pro- fessional, prepara- tory, in- dustrial , and special schools within the city. The pub- lic school system in- cludes, be- sides the elementary schools. Industrial School for Boys, Trade School for Girls, fif- teen high schools (in- eluding High School of Commerce, High School of Practical Arts, and Mechanic Arts High School), and a nor- mal school. Of the ele- m e n t a r y schools, the Horace Mann School for the Deaf is of special Old South Meetinghouse Washington & Milk Street 66 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Faneuil Hall Market RAND M c N A L L Y BOSTON GUIDE 07 Christian Science Church Falmouth Street interest. The Public Latin School was established in 1635- one year before Harvard College was founded. COLLEGES, ACADEMIES, AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS Boston University is numerically the largest educational institution in New England. College of Liberal Arts, 688 Boylston St.; College of Business Administration, 525 Boylston St.; College of Secretarial Science, Garrison St.; School of Theology is on Mt. Vernon St., Beacon Hill; Law School, Ash- burton Place; School of Medicine, East Concord St.. President, Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin. Simmons College, for women, is in the Fenway. It was founded in 1 899 through a provision in the will of John Simmons. It gives courses in science, household economics, library and secretarial work. President, Dr. Henry Lefavor; Dean, Miss Sarah Lotiise Arnold. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is recognized as the leadinu technical scho(jl of this counirw Chartered in 1861. 68 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Recently a tract of fifty acres was secured across the river in Cam- bridge, bordering on the Charles River Basin, with a frontage of fifteen hundred feet on the Esplanade and running back an equal distance on Massachusetts Avenue. Nearly seven and one-half million dollars have been spent on the new plant, and the plans call for nearly three million dollars more. The buildings are grouped so as to fonn a structural unit, with the library and administration building as the dominating feature. Some idea of the size of the plant may be had from the state- ment that the library and administration building — shown at the right of the picture (page 50) — stands more than four hun- dred feet back from the street on which the nearer wings front. No school of its kind compares with the Institute in equip- ment. Its laboratories and workshops have the best that modern science and mechanics afford. One pump in the hy- draulic laboratory has a capacity of 22,000 gallons per minute — more water than all the fire engines of Cambridge could use. Half the acreage of the new site is devoted to donnitories and to social and recreative uses. The Walker Memorial is the all- Technology clubhouse, with lounging rooms, a large dining hall, and rooms for more than thirty student societies and activities. In architecture it follows the simple, classic style of the other buildings, yet it has a distinct character of its own. Near the Walker Memorial is the president's house, with the dormitories grouped around it. Back of the dormitories is the athletic field. Northeastern College of Boston Young Men's Christian Association, comprising the schools of Liberal Arts, Law, Commerce and Finance, Engineering, and Co-operative Engineering, together with its affiliated schools has an enroll- ment of four thousand students, making it numerically the second institution of learning in New England. With the exception of the Huntington School for boys and the Co- operative Engineering School the sessions are all held during the evening. The School of Law and the School of Commerce and Finance grant degrees and the preparatory school certifies students to all the certificate-receiving colleges. President, Frank Palmer Spcare. Radcliffe College, for women, is closely affiliated with Harvard. In 1S79 the "Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women," more generally known as "Harvard Annex," was organized to give women a share in the educational advantages of Harvard. A few years later Fay House (where "Fair Harvard" was written) was secured for the new institution. In 1894 the society was incorporated as Radcliffe College. RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 69 The cotirscs of instruction provided in Radcliffc are for the most part identical with courses in Harvard and given by the same instructors. The president and fellows of Harvard College constitute the Board of Visitors of Radcliffe. Diplomas are countersigned by the president of Harvard, and the seal of Harvard University is affixed to them. The college now occupies eleven buildings. President, Dr. LeBaron Russell Briggs. Tufts College, for men, and the affiliated Jackson College, for women, stand on College Hill in Medford. They are reached from Boston by Boston & Maine Railroad to Tufts College station, or by Medford Hillside cars from Sullivan Sq. Besides classical and scientific courses. Tufts has schools of engineering, theology, medicine, and dentistry. (The last two named are on Huntington Ave., Boston, comer of Rogers Ave.) Bamum Museum of Natural History at Tufts College was built and endowed by the famous showman. Among the interesting exhibits is the skeleton of the great elephant Jumbo.. Boston College (conducted by the Jesuit Fathers) has recently occupied new buildings overlooking Chestnut Hill Reservoir. They are situated in Newton, just beyond the Boston line, and are reached by Newton Boulevard cars. Wellesley College, for women, is beautifully located in grounds of several hundred acres on the shore of Lake Waban in Wellesley. While fifteen miles out of the city, it is but a ___} £^* '-^i^t" ^yggs, , T jum a^t / Harvard Bridge and Massachusetts Institute of Technology 70 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE half-hour's ride by the Boston & Albany Railroad and is usually grouped with the Boston colleges. It is one of the largest colleges for women only, having about 1,400 students. President, Miss Ellen Fitz Pendelton. Among the many preparatory, trade, and special schools of Boston may be mentioned: Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645, and one of the best known preparatory schools. New England Conservatory of Music, Huntington Ave. and Gains- boro St. This was founded by Dr. Ebcn Tourjee. It is well known throughout this country and abroad. Emerson College of Oratory, 30 Huntington Ave. Students come from all parts of the United States. School of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Htmt- ington Ave. Massachusetts Normal Art School, Exeter and Newbury Sts. .This is one of the state nonnal schools, and prepares teachers of drawing and painting. School for Social Workers, maintained by Harvard and Simmons colleges, 18 Somerset St. (Beacon Hill). Franklin Union, 41 Berkeley St., was made possible by the gift of £ 1 , 000 by Benjamin Franklin. Frank- Hn's will stipulated that the amount should be allowed to increase for one hundred years. The fund was so well managed that when the exact John Harvard Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Harvard University RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 71 fonn in which it was to be used was decided upon, to8 years after Franklin's death, it amounted to $405,000. The Union maintains classes in civil engineerinjj;, electrical enj^ineering, steam engineering, automobile engineering, machine drawing, and other mechanical arts and sciences, for employed men only. About 1,550 men are attending courses. Wentworth Institute, on Huntington Ave. opposite the Museum of Fine Arts, was founded by Arioeh Wentworth. It was opened in 191 1. It offers day and evening courses in machine work, pattern making, foundry practice, carpentry, electrical work, and various other trade occupations, at very small tuition charge. Its aim is to increase the average standard of skill and intelligence in the trades for which it gives courses. Open to boys over sixteen years old and men who satisfy the principal that they are fitted by natural ability, practical experience, or previous schooi training to succeed in the kind of work they wish to undertake. Lowell Institute, founded 1839, offers eleven courses and gives free public lectures. These lectures are given in the Rogers Building of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Huntington Ave. Memorial Hall Harvard University 72 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Widener Memorial Library Harvard University Harvard University belongs almost as much to Boston as to Cambridge, for the Medical School, the big athletic field and Stadium, the Arnold Arboretum and Bussey Institution are within the limits of Boston. Harvard was founded in 1636, and is the oldest college in the United States. The "Yard" at Harvard Sq., Cambridge, contains the older buildings, but the university long since outgrew the yard, and even Cam- bridge. The oldest of the Harvard buildings is Massachusetts Hall, a gift from the province in 1720. The newest is the Widener Memorial Library. This was the gift of Mrs. George D. Widener as a memorial to her son, Harry Elkins Widener, who was lost on the "Titanic," and who willed to Harvard his own library of 2,500 volumes, many of them of the greatest rarity. The new building is 200 by 250 feet and has capacity for 2,000,000 volumes. At the Harvard Sq. corner of the Yard stands the old Wadsworth House. It was built in 1726 by the college and colony jointly as a residence for the presidents of the college, and it was so used for more than a century. It became Wash- ington's headquarters when he first took command of the army. Memorial Hall, with a dining room seating more than 1 ,000, and Sanders Theater, having a capacity of i , 500 ; Peabody RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 73 Museum of Archeology ; the Ware collection of glass flowers in University Museum; the Germanic Museum; Fogg Art Muse- um ; Agassiz Museum ; and the Botanical Museum, are interest- ing places to visit. The statue of John Harvard in the " Delta" near Memorial is the work of Daniel Chester French. Harvard Yard is surrounded by a fence in which are many beautiful gateways. With the exception of the Johnston, Meyer, Class of 1890, and McKean gates, the fence and gates were given by alumni classes. The Johnston gate, at the main entrance to the yard, was the first built (1890) and is one of the most beautiful. It was the gift of Samuel Johnston of Chicago, and was designed by Charles Follen McKim. A tablet in the right wall gives the following passage from a pamphlet printed in London in 1643: After God had carried us safe to New England AND wee had BUILDED OUR HOUSES provided necessaries for our LIVELIHOOD REARED CONVENIENT PLACES FOR God's WORSHIP AND SETLED THE CIVILL GOVERNMENT ONE OF THE NEXT THINGS WE LONGED FOR AND LOOKED AFTER WAS TO ADVANCE LEARNING AND PERPETUATE IT TO POSTERITY DREADING TO LEAVE AN ILLITERATE MINISTRY TO THE CHURCHES WHEN OUR PRESENT MINISTERS ' SHALL LIE IN DUST New England's First Fruits Johnston Gate, Main Entrance Harvard University 74 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Harvard Medical School A tablet on the left wall bears this inscription : BY THE GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY 28 OCTOBER 1636 AGREED TO GIVE 4oo£ TOWARDS A SCHOALE OR COLLEDGE WHEAROF 2oo£ TO BEE PAID THE NEXT YEARE & 2oo£ WHEN THE WORKE IS FINISHED & THE NEXT COURT TO APPOINT WHEARE & WT BUILDING 15 NOVEMBER 1637 THE COLLEDGE IS ORDERED TO BEE AT NEWETOWNE 2 MAY 1638 IT IS ORDERED THAT NEWETOWNE SHALL HENCEFORWARD BE CALLED CAMBRIDGE 13 MARCH 163S-9 IT IS ORDERED THAT THE COLLEDGE AGREED UPON FORMERLY TO BEE BUILT AT CAMBRIDGE SHALBEE CALLED HARVARD COLLEDGE The new Larz Anderson bridge gives access from Harvard Sq. to Soldiers Field with its stadium seating some 40,000. Harvard Medical School stands just beyond the Fens in Boston, between Hmitington, Longwood, and Brookline Aves., and the beautiful marble buildings are among the best equipped in the world. The Museum of Comparative Anatomy is especially interesting. Perkins Institution for The Blind now has commodious buildings in Watertown on the bank of the Charles River. It is reached by electric cars of the North Beacon St. line from Park St. Music and various branches of literature are taught as well as useful handicrafts. The institution has a library RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 75 of many thousand volumes printed for the bHnd, and these books are loaned all over the eountry. Visitors are welcome except on Stmday. CLUBS AND SOCIETIES Algonquin Club, 217 Commonwealth Ave. — A social club for men. Appalachian Mountain Club, 1050 Tremont Building. Boston Architectural Club, 16 vSomerset St. Boston Art Club, 150 Newbury St. — Holds frequent exhibits of paintings and other works of art. Boston Athletic Association, Exeter St. — One of the leading athletic associations for men in the country. Well equipped building with gymnasium and other accommodations. Boston City Club, corner Somerset St. and Ashburton Place. The membership is 4,500 with a waiting list of 1,300. It is a social and civic force. It holds weekly meetings, with talks by authorities on timely topics. It is a public forum on subjects pertaining to city, state and nation. Boston Lodge of Elks, 12 Somerset St. Boston Young Men's Christian Association occupies its new million-dollar building on Huntington Ave. " It has the finest Association building in the country, with gymnasium, swimming pool, library, "games and dormitories; lectures, religious services, entertainments, v^^horal club, and vsduca- tional department. Recommends rooming and boarding places. Anderson Bridge & Harvard Stadium 76- RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 77 Avenue 78 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Boston Young Women's Christian Association, Berkeley and Appleton Sts. — Rooms, board, room registry, employ- ment bureau, gym- nasium, evening classes, social activities. Boston Young Men's- Christian Union, 48 Boylston St. Maintains a well equipped gymna- sium , library and reading room, evening institute, employment bureau, room registry, and gives entertainments. Business Women's Club, 144 Bowdoin St. Chilton Club, 152 Com- monwealth Ave. — A so- cial club for women. Elysium Club, 218 Huntington Ave. — Leading Hebrew mer- chants, bankers, and other business men. Engineers' Club, 2 Commonwealth Ave. Exchange Club, 118 Milk St. First Corps of Cadets. ^Organized 1741. Armory, Columbus Ave. and Ferdinand St. Harvard Club of Boston, 374 Commonwealth Ave. Longwood Cricket Club, Longwood (Chestnut Hill car or Boston & Albany Railroad). Masonic Temple, Tremont and Boylston Sts., is headquarters for the Masonic societies of the city. Mayflower Club, 6 Park St.— A Clough House Vernon Place (1695) tRECTEo AD. 171 2 OLD CORNER BOOKSTORE BUILDING School near Washington Street social club for woinen. New England Women's Club, 585 Boylston St. People's Choral Union. — Mixed chorus of 400 voices. Puritan Club, merged with Boston Art Club. Odd Fellows Building, 515 Tre- mont St., is headquarters for various lodges of the order. St. Botolph Club, 4 Newbury St, RAND AI c N A L L Y BOSTON (i U I D E — A social club for pro- f e s s i o n a 1 men. Somerset Clul), 42 Beacon St. — A social club for men. Tavern Club, 4 Boylston Place. — A lunch and dining club for men. Memorial to Civil War Nurses State House Tennis and Racquet Club, 939 Boylston St. — Building well equipped for indoor athletics. Twentieth Century Club, 3 Joy St. — Saturday hmchcons from September to June, with discussion of vital questions of public welfare. Union Boat Club, foot of Chestnut St. on the Esplanade. Union Club, 8 Park St.^ — A social club for men. State House 80 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Memorial Hall State House University Club, 270 college graduates. Women's City Club, 40 Beacon St Beacon St. — A men's social club for PUBLIC BUILDINGS State House, Beacon St. opposite the Common at the head of Park St. This is a conspicuous object of interest, especially at night, when its dome is illuminated by many hundred incandescent lights. The corner stone was laid July 4, 1795, by Governor Samuel Adams assisted by Paul Revere as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons. The front was de- signed by Charles Bulfinch, the first great American architect- The extension carrying the building back to Derne St. was erected during the years 1889 to 1895. New wings have recently been added. Within the State House some of the more important things to see are Doric Hall, with its statues, portraits, and relics; Memorial Hall, containing a bronze statue of Major General William Francis Bartlett, and a most inspiring display of tattered battle flags carried by Massachusetts volun- teers during the Civil War; Grand Staircase Hall, with its beautiful marble stairs, and mural paintings by Robert Reid ; Representatives' Hall and the historic codfish; the Council Chamber, of the original Bulfinch design ; the Senate Chamber, RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 81 also by Bulfinch, with many busts; the Governor's Rooms, and the portraits there; the State Library, containing the historic Bradford Manuscript, — "History of PHmoth Planta- tion." In Grand Staircase Hall there is the excellent statue by Bela L. Pratt, representing in bronze an anny nurse supporting a wounded soldier. The statue stands upon a marble base which bears this inscription: TO THE ARMY NURSES FROM 1 86 1 TO 1865 ANGELS OF MERCY AND LIFE AMID SCENES OF CONFLICT AND DEATH A TRIBUTE OF HONOR AND GRATITUDE FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT DAUGHTERS OF VETERANS 1914 Until 181 1, Beacon Hill rose back of the State House in a cone shaped mound higher than the building itself. On the highest point the Beacon was erected in 1634, to warn the country around of approaching danger. This was pulled down by the British, during the seige and a fort built in its place, but in 1 790, a brick and stone monument, designed by Bulfinch, replaced it. This latter was destroyed when the hill was cut down, but the tablets were preserved and are built into the present monument, which stands near the place of the original beacon, only low- ered about seventy feet. Within the State House grounds are several statues. On the right of the main entrance, Daniel Webster (by Hiram Powers, 1859); on the left, Horace Mann (by Emma Stebbins, 1865), a gift from school children and teachers. At the right of the State House is the equestrian statue of Major General Joseph Hooker, erected in 1903. The figure of General Hooker is by Daniel Chester French, the horse by Edward C. Potter. Statues of Major General Charles Devens (by Olin L. Warner, 1898) and of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks (by Henry H. Kitson, 1908) stand near the entrance from Ash- burton Place. Major General Wm. Francis Bartlett State House RAND M c N A L L Y BOSTON GUIDE HERE STOOD THE HOUSE OCCUPIED IN 1774-1775 BY GENERAL FKEDERICK HAIJ>IMAND TO WHOM THE BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL BOYS MADE PROTEST AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR COAST HE ORDERED THE COAST RESTORED AND REPORTED THE AFFAIR TO CEKERAL CAGE WHO OBSERVED TBAI IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT THE NOTION OF LIBERTY OUT OF THE PEOPLE AS IT WAS ROOTED IN THEM FROM THEIR CHILDHOOD mis lABltT CKtCTtD BY BOSTON CHAPTIR SONS OF THE AMCmCAH REVOLUTION. 1907 From the steps at the rear en- trance to the State House one may get a view down the Picturesque narrow Ridgeway Lane, which leads from Dcrnc St. to Cambridge St. op- posite what is known as the Old West Church, although now a School Street on fence in front of City Hall branch of the Public Library. Sulfolk County Court House faces Pemberton Sq., ofif Scollay Sq. It may also be reached by walking through Ash- burton Place, from the State House to Somerset St. Police Headquarters, Pemberton Sq. The police com- missioner is appointed by the governor. City Hall stands on School vSt. At the left of the entrance is the first portrait statue set up in Boston. It is of Benjamin Frankhn (by Richard Greenough) and was erected in 1856. On the opposite side of the walk is the statue to the elder Josiah Quincy (by Thomas Ball, 1S79). In the rear, on Court St. and Court Sq., is the new Annex, an office building designed to care for most of the city departments of a business nature, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL State upon a s St. is looked the financial center of Boston, although many large banks and other financial institutions are located on Court, Devonshire, Water, Milk, and other streets of the vicinity. Boston Stock Ex- change, Exchange Build- ing, 53 vState St. Boston Curb Exchange, 27 Exchange vSt. Roger Williams ("Old Witch") House, Saletn RANI) Arc N ALLY BOSTON GUIDE s:? Cha mb e r of Commerce Build- ing, with its circu- lar front, stands on India St., corner of Milk. It is near the Post Office and Custom House. The Chamber of Commerce has a very important part in the busi- ness and civic affairs of the city. Department Stores and other retail establish- ments are largely on Washington St., between Milk and Essex Sts., on streets leading off of Washington — Summer, Winter, Temple Place, West — on Tremont, and on Boylston St. The Automobile Trade Ave. beyond the Fens. Wool. The greatest wool market of the world. The chief location of the business is around Summer St. opposite South Station and in neighboring parts of the city. Shoe and Leather, in which also Boston leads the world, is on Essex, Lincoln, South, and other streets near by. Textiles. As a textile center Boston is also the chief point of the world, and it leads in the manufacture of chocolates. Fishing Port. Boston has now outstripped Grimsby, Eng- land. T wharf was for many years the headquarters of the trade, but now the business has been relocated at the new $1,000,000 Fish Pier, near Commonwealth Dock in South Boston. There it has for the handling of fish the best equipped dock and the most complete plant in the world. Old Milestone — Harvard Square Cambridge is fast going out Commonwealth 84 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE PROMINENT CHURCHES Christ Church, "The Old North" of Longfellow's poem, is the chief point of interest in the Salem St. of to-day. This is the oldest church building in Boston (1723), and it was the second Episcopal church to be established in the town. From the steeple of this building were hung the signal lanterns, as arranged by Paul Revere, that friends on the Charlestown side might be in- formed of the movements of the British in case Revere was prevented from crossing. The church contains the first peal of bells known in this country. They were brought from England, where they were cast in 1744, and are of remarkably good tone. Paul Revere as a young man was one of a guild of eight bell ringers. George Washington (a bust) de- clared by Lafayette to be "more like him than any other portrait", stands in the window by which Newman is sup- posed to have left the church after hanging the lanterns. This is said to be the first public memo- rial erected to Washington. The ancient communion service, part of which was presented by King George II, is now kept at the Museum of Fine Arts, but it is brought to the church on special occasions. The church has recently been restored, as far as possible, to the condition of its earliest days. Admission is free, and a climb to the belfry is granted those who buy a church booklet. Old South Meeting- house stands on the corner of Washington and Milk Sts. It is the second oldest Church building in the city. Governor John Winthrop had his home on the ground on which it stands and here he died in 1649. The Old South Society worshiped here from 1670 when its first Evacuation MonumenI Dorchester Heights South Boston Hawthorne's "Wayside"^ Concord RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 85 house was built, to 1875, when it moved to its new place of worship on Boylston St. In the first meetinghouse Benjamin Franklin was baptized, Jan. 17, 1706. In 1729 the present brick structure took the place of the first meetinghouse. Here, during pre-revolutionary days, were held meetings that were too large for Faneuil Hall. During the seige at Boston, the British used the church as a riding school, after burning the pulpit and the pews for firewood. The Old South Association now has the building under its care. The small fee asked for viewing the loan collection of Revolutiinary relics, colonial furniture, and portraits is used for maintenance. King's Chapel is at the comer of School and Tremont Sts. Here in 1688 was established the first Episcopal church of the town. Opposition to it was so great that Governor Andros had to appropriate a part of the old burying ground in order to find a location for it. The present building was erected in 1754. Governor Shirley and Sir "Harry" Frankland were among the contributors, and it was the place of worship for the aristocracy— the court circle — of the town. The rector, being of the "King's party," fled to Halifax with many of his parish- ioners at the time of the evacuation, and took with him the King's Chapel School and Tremont Streets 86 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE books, plate, and vestments of the church. Most of these properties have since been restored. From the days of James Freeman, at the close of the eighteenth century, the church has been Unitarian. First Baptist, corner Com- monwealth Ave. and Clarendon S t . The first build- ing of this society was erected in 1679 on the border of the Mill Pond. There was at that time so much prejudice against the sect that the meet- inghouse was closed and its Tremont Temple 82 Tremont Street doors nailed up by order of the court. The present strticture, with its large, square tower rising 170 feet, is a prominent object in Common- wealth Ave. The groups at the sides (representing the four Christian eras: Baptism, Communion, Marriage and Death) and the statues on the corners (typifying the Angels of the Judgment) were cut by Italian sculptors from designs by Bartholdi. Clarendon St. (Columbus Ave. and Clarendon St.) was made prominent in the denomin- ation through the pastorate of Rev. Arthur J. Gordon. Tremont Temple. Tremont St. near School. One of the largest Baptist churches in America. The present building is the fourth Tremont Temple, the others having been destroyed HERE LIVED PAUL REVERE 1770- ISOO ERECTED BY PAUL REVERE CHAPTER OAUCKTUiS or THE AMCRiCAN REVOumOll 1S9S. 19 and 21 North Square RAND McNALLY BOSTON GQIDE 87 by fire. It is of the of!ice building style, the street floor con- taining several stores and the upper floors being rented for business purposes. The main auditorium, seating about 2,500, is in demand for conventions, concerts, and public meetings. The building also contains several smaller halls. Christian Science: First Church of Christ, Scientist. This is called " The Mother Church. ' ' It has a seating ca] )acit y of about 5,000. It stands on Falmouth St. with beautiful grounds in front extending to Huntington Ave. Congregational. (New) Old South, Copley Sq. The beauti- ful Italian Gothic tower of this building rises nearly two hundred and fifty feet and is an object of interest from a long distance. The building itself is chamiing in design, both in exterior and interior. A tablet in the arcade on the Boylston St. side tells in a few words the history of the society. 1669 Old South Church Preserved and blessed OF God for more than Two Hundred Years while worshiping on its original site corner of Washington and Milk Streets whence it was - removed to this building in 1875 AMID constant PROOFS OF His guidance and loving favor Qui transtulit sustinet Forsyth Dental Infirmary Fenway & Hemenway Street 88 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Norumbega Tower Weston Park St. dates from 1808. It has a beautiful spire designed by Peter Banner, an English architect, that is a conspicuous object of interest from the common. Central. Newbury and Berkeley Sts. Built of Roxbury "pudding stone," and is one of the beautiful churches of the city. It has very fine stained glass windows. Mt. Vernon. Massachusetts Ave. and Beacon St. Formerly occupied the substantial stone building on Mt. Vernon St. now used by Boston University School of Law. Trinity, Copley Sq. As an organization has existed since 1728. The present building was erected in 1872, after fire had destroyed its predecessor on Summer St. It is of French Roman- esque style, and is one of the most imposing church buildings in the city. The beautiful mural decorations are by John LaFarge. Philips Brooks was rector of Trinity for twenty-two years before he was made Bishop of Massachusetts. His statue by St. Gaudens adorns the lawn. St. Paul's, (on Tremont St. opposite the Common) from the convenience of its location has been made the temporary cathedral of the diocese of Massa- chusetts. A beginning has been made towards collecting a large fund for erecting a suitable cathedral building, but it means many years of work to carry this to completion. St. Paul's was built in 1820. Emanuel, New- bury near Arlington "Dorothy Q" House — Quincy RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 89 St., has come into prominence tlirough the Emanuel Movement. Church of the Advent, Mt. Vernon and Brim- mer Sts., a n (1 t h e M issi on Church of S ; John the Evan- g e li s t , B owdoin vSt., have the Hi^h Church s c r \' i c e . The Cath- edral of the Holy Cross, 1400 Washing- ton St., is the largest and one of the finest Catholic churches in New Eng- land. It is of the early English Gothic style, and the interior is richly decorated. Church of the Immaculate Conception, Harrison Ave. at East Concord St., is of scarcely less interest than the cathedral. It, also, has very fine interior ornamentation. Park Street Church 90 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Pilgrim Monument Provincetown Church of the New Jerusalem, Sweden- borgian: Bowdoin St.. opposite State House grounds. First Church in Boston is, as an organiza- tion, directly descended from the congregation which worshipped in the crude building of mud walls and thatched roof built in 1632. The second building of the society was erected in 1639 across Washington St. from State St. This was consumed in the fire of 171 1. The successor, known as the "Old Brick," lasted until 1S08, when a new luilding was erected in Chauncy Place. The present beautiful building at the corner of Berkeley & Marlborough Sts. dates from 1868. Its interior is almost completely surrounded with memorial tablets, includ- ing those to John Winthrop, John Endicott, Sir Henry Vane, Simon Bradstreet, Anne Brad- street, Edward Everett, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. On the south side ii a life-size recumbent figure erected by the descendants of John Cotton as a memorial to their ancestor. It is of Italian statuary marble with pedes- tal and back- ground of lime- stone. The church also contains sev- eral beautiful memorial windows. ^ui^K. IMlSB \*_ J 1 V ^- Wd HP! ^Pk K^J^f^l ;^ .J^^mMAB 1 11^^ llliliMP^ I^'tv _ _. -'•>'' 'Old Oaken Bucket" House — Scituate RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 91 The statue of John Win- throp, which stood for many years in Scollay Square, was placed in the yard of the First Church in 1905. Rev. William Emer- son, father of Ralph Waldo Emerson, was pastor of this church, i799-i