Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . r left: Wadsworth House, most interesting andpicturesque of landmarks on this side of the yard, broad anddeep, with gambrel roof, dormer windows, early colonial styleof finish, embellished entrance porch at the sidewalk edge. Itdates from 1726. Wadsworth House w-as used for one hundredand tw^enty-three years as the home of the presidents of Harvard,and at one time was Washingtons headquarters. Beyond Wadsworth house, on the left, the most interestingbuildings are: Dane Hall, the old Law School building, dating CAMBRIDGE, HARVARD COLLEGE AND MO
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . r left: Wadsworth House, most interesting andpicturesque of landmarks on this side of the yard, broad anddeep, with gambrel roof, dormer windows, early colonial styleof finish, embellished entrance porch at the sidewalk edge. Itdates from 1726. Wadsworth House w-as used for one hundredand tw^enty-three years as the home of the presidents of Harvard,and at one time was Washingtons headquarters. Beyond Wadsworth house, on the left, the most interestingbuildings are: Dane Hall, the old Law School building, dating CAMBRIDGE, HARVARD COLLEGE AND MOUNT AUBURN. 107 from 1832. and occupied by the school until the erection of Aus-tin Hall, outside the yard. Now Dane Hall is used by the HarvardCo-operative Society, an association of officers and studentswhich supplies books and stationery to members of the University;Grays Hall, a dormitory building; Matthews Hall, another dor-mitory; Massachusetts Hall, dating from 1720, and boasting along list of former occupants who have become famous in one. THE JOHNSTON GATE, HARVARD COLLEGE. way or another, whose names appear on the bronze tablets in the entry as follows: William Ellery, 1747, signer Declaration of Independence. Artemas Ward, 1743, commander [Massachusetts forces, 1775. Robert Treat Paine, 1751, signer Declaration of Independence. \\illiam Cushing, 1751, chief justice of Massachusetts. John Lowell, 1760, chief justice United States Circuit Court. Elbridge Gerry, 1762, Vice-President of the United States. Francis Dana, 1762, first minister to Russia. Theophilus Parsons, 1769, chief justice of Massachusetts. Joseph Story, 179S, justice of Supreme Court of the United States. Charles Henry Davis, 1825, admiral of the United States Navy. Robert Gould Shaw, 1S60, soldier. Mather Byles, 1751, clergyman and Belknap, 1762, clergyman and historian. 108 GUIDE TO BOSTON. Samuel Gilman, 1811, author of Fair Harvard. James Walker, 1814, president of Harvard College and his
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