. Boston, a guide book . n 1808. On Berkeley Street, at the corner ofNewbury Street, south of the avenue,is the Gothic Central Church (Congre-gational Trinitarian), built in 1867. Likethe First Church this is constructed ofthe Roxbury rubble, with sandstone trim-mings. Its fine spire, two hundred and thirty-six feet high, is the tallest in the city. This church (erectedin 1867) is the successor of the first meetinghouse of the society,which stood on Winter Street, in the heart of the down-town shop-ping quarter, from 1841 to 1865. The only church ovi Commonwealth Ave^tue is the notable structu
. Boston, a guide book . n 1808. On Berkeley Street, at the corner ofNewbury Street, south of the avenue,is the Gothic Central Church (Congre-gational Trinitarian), built in 1867. Likethe First Church this is constructed ofthe Roxbury rubble, with sandstone trim-mings. Its fine spire, two hundred and thirty-six feet high, is the tallest in the city. This church (erectedin 1867) is the successor of the first meetinghouse of the society,which stood on Winter Street, in the heart of the down-town shop-ping quarter, from 1841 to 1865. The only church ovi Commonwealth Ave^tue is the notable structurewith its Florentine tower, at the western corner of Clarendon is the First Baptist Church, descendant of the pioneer Baptist meet-inghouse at the North End which the then proscribed sect built in 1679,and which not long after was nailed up by the court officers (see p. 57).This edifice was originally erected (in 1873) by the Brattle SquareChurch organization (Unitarian), to succeed the historic meetinghouse. Leif Ericson Statue So COPLEY SQUARE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS in Brattle Square (see p. 17). It was purchased by the Baptists afterthe dissolution of the Unitarian society and the sale of the churchproperty by auction. The massive square stone tower, rising one hun-dred and seventy-six feet, with frieze of colossal bas-reliefs, gives thisstructure an especial distinction in the Back Bay architecture. Thesculptured,figures on the four sides of the frieze represent the fourChristian eras, — baptism, communion, marriage, and death ; the statuesat the angles typify the angels of the judgment blowing golden trum-pets. These figures w^ere cut by Italian sculptors from designs byBartholdi after the stones had been set in place. The lower south corner of the avenue and Dartmouth Street isimpressively marked by the great marble hotel, the Vendome. Fartherdown, on the north side, below Exeter Street, is the Algonquin Club-house, a light stone building of striking fa9ade,
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