Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Boston and environs .. . is feet. These groups are among the best examples ofsymbolic sculpture in the country. Custom House and Vicinity. After leaving the Post Office, let us turn east on Water and passthrough Liberty Square, with the Mason Building in the middle ofthe square, to Broad Street. Turning to the left, and then at CentralStreet to the right, we come to the Custom House, a solid, dignifiedbuilding, in the form of a Greek cross, and the exterior in pureDoric style. It was begun in 1S35, and was twelve years in walls, columns, and ev
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Boston and environs .. . is feet. These groups are among the best examples ofsymbolic sculpture in the country. Custom House and Vicinity. After leaving the Post Office, let us turn east on Water and passthrough Liberty Square, with the Mason Building in the middle ofthe square, to Broad Street. Turning to the left, and then at CentralStreet to the right, we come to the Custom House, a solid, dignifiedbuilding, in the form of a Greek cross, and the exterior in pureDoric style. It was begun in 1S35, and was twelve years in walls, columns, and even the entire roof, are of granite, and itrests upon 3,000 piles. Each of the massive, fluted columns is 5 feet2 inches in diameter, 32 feet high, and weighs over 40 tons. Thereare thirty-two of these columns. The porticoes have each six granite dome, at the intersection of the cross, terminates in a sky-light, which is 25 feet in diameter. The cross-shaped rotunda, finishedin the Grecian-Corinthian style, is the main feature of the interior. II. BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — India Street, near Atlantic Avenue. 11 (157) 158 HANDY GUIDE TO BOSTON. Just beyond the Custom House, on India Street, is the Chamber ofCommerce Btiildmg-, with circular front and lofty, conical roofpierced by high dormer windows. It is Romanesque and irregularin plan, conforming to the shape of the lot. The chamber occupiesthe entire third floor. The board-room, or exchange, is circular inform, with high domed ceiling — the apex 38 feet above the floor— and has a floor space of 4,300 square feet. The visitorsgalleryis over the entrance. Leaving the Chamber of Commerce and retracing our stepsfor a short distance, pass to the rear of the Custom House andalong Commercial Street to the Qiiincy Market, a long, low,granite building, with porticoes of massive granite columns, and ateither end a well-proportioned dome. This market-house (offi-cially called Faneuil Hall Market) is a monument of th
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