Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . street, was built in list of the ministers of the church is remarkable,for all but one were college men. When the BackBay house was built. Dr. Rufus Ellis had been thepastor for more than thirty years (he was installedin 1835, succeeding Dr. N. L. Frothingham, whoseser\ice had also been long). Dr. Ellis died inLiverpool, England, on the 23d of September, the 29th of December, the following year,Stopford Wentworth Brooke, son of th
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . street, was built in list of the ministers of the church is remarkable,for all but one were college men. When the BackBay house was built. Dr. Rufus Ellis had been thepastor for more than thirty years (he was installedin 1835, succeeding Dr. N. L. Frothingham, whoseser\ice had also been long). Dr. Ellis died inLiverpool, England, on the 23d of September, the 29th of December, the following year,Stopford Wentworth Brooke, son of the well-knownEnglish clergyman, Stopford Brooke, of London,was ordained as Dr. Ellis successor. The cost ofthe present church building was §275,000. The Brattle-square Church, now the First Baptist,on Commonwealth avenue and Clarendon street,next completed (in 1873), is most remarkable forits massive Florentine square tower, rising majesti-cally nearly 180 feet, with the band of figure-sculp-ture surrounding it near the summit, between thebelfry arches and the cornice. The four groups, 1 See chapter on Some Noteworthy Buildings; paragraph on. IB m
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