Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ege. HollisStreet appears on a map of 1775, continued in a straight lineto Cambridge (Back) Bay. The growth of this part of Bostonhad, by 1730, called for a place of worship nearer than Sum-mer Street. Governor Belcher, who was then a resident inthe vicinity, gave the land for a site, and a small woodenmeeting-house, thirty by forty feet, was erected in 1732. Thefirst minister was Eev, Mather Byles. A bell weighing 800pounds was given by a nephew of the Thomas Hollis for whomthe church was named, and was placed in the steeple on itsarrival. Thi
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ege. HollisStreet appears on a map of 1775, continued in a straight lineto Cambridge (Back) Bay. The growth of this part of Bostonhad, by 1730, called for a place of worship nearer than Sum-mer Street. Governor Belcher, who was then a resident inthe vicinity, gave the land for a site, and a small woodenmeeting-house, thirty by forty feet, was erected in 1732. Thefirst minister was Eev, Mather Byles. A bell weighing 800pounds was given by a nephew of the Thomas Hollis for whomthe church was named, and was placed in the steeple on itsarrival. This bell began the joyful peal at one oclock on themorning of the 19th of May, 1766, as nearest to Liberty Tree,and was answered by Christ Church from the other extremityof the town, announcing the Stamp Act Eepeal. The steepleswere hung with flags, and Liberty Tree decorated with banners. The church was destroyed by the great fire of 1787, but thesociety, nothing daunted, reared another wooden edifice in the LIBERTY THEE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 415. HOLLIS STREET CHURCH. year following, of Avliich we present an engraving. It waserected upon the same spot as the former church, but had, un-like it, two towers instead of a steeple. Charles Bulfmch Avasthe architect, and Josiali Wheeler the builder. Tliis Tiuildingwas removed in 1810, to giveplace to the present edifice,and was floated on a raft downthe harbor to East Braintree,where Eev. Jonas Perkinspreached in it forty-sevenyears. Thongli now turnedinto a theatre, and denudedof its fine steeple, the mainbuilding remains substan-tially as before. The steeple of Hollis Street reached to an altitude of nearlytwo hundred feet, and was one of the most prominent objectsseen from the harbor. This was the church of West, Holley,Pierpont, and Starr King. Singularly enough, the church hadlost by death, wliile in the service of the church, but a singleone of its pastors (Dr. Samuel West) since its John Pierpont, one of our n
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