Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . f the Massachusetts Histor-ical Society, and seems to have suffered more from thetooth of time than the stanch old building it once the smoke from Lexington and Concord dimmedits bright colors, tarnished its gilding, and caused it tobe laid aside forever. The walls of this old house, thatonce echoed with kings decrees, eloquent speeches, andloyal toasts, now ring with the gay laugh, tender songs,and humorous jests of the negro minstrel. The hall,under the management of Mr. Ordway, has become de-servedly popular, as orde
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . f the Massachusetts Histor-ical Society, and seems to have suffered more from thetooth of time than the stanch old building it once the smoke from Lexington and Concord dimmedits bright colors, tarnished its gilding, and caused it tobe laid aside forever. The walls of this old house, thatonce echoed with kings decrees, eloquent speeches, andloyal toasts, now ring with the gay laugh, tender songs,and humorous jests of the negro minstrel. The hall,under the management of Mr. Ordway, has become de-servedly popular, as order is preserved, and all that mayoffend banished. Brattle Street Church stands in Brattle Square. The first house of worship, a wooden building, was taken down in May, 1772, to make room for the present one, which was built upon the same spot, and consecrated July 10 110 BOSTON SIGHTS. 25, 1773. In the front wall, near a window, may be seenthe veritable cannon ball shot from Washingtons camp inCambridge, at the time Boston was in possession of CHAPTER XIII HOWARD ATHENAEUM. BOWDOIN SQUARE. NATIONAL THEATRE. LOWELL DEPOT. EASTERN RAILROAD DEPOT. FITCHBURG DEPOT. COPPS HILL. MAINE DEPOT. The Howard Athenaeum is centrally located, andfronts on Howard Street, occupying the spot where oncestood the house in which Governor Eustis died. The the-atre, although not large, is one of the most comfortableplaces of amusement in the city, and is deservedly far from here is Bowdoin Square, surrounded bysome of the finest buildings in Boston. On one side risethe lofty walls of the princely Revere ; on another, Coolidge Block, (a splendid building of stone,) the stronggranite walls of Bowdoin Square Church, the UnitedStates Courtswhich occupy the old Parkman mansionand massive Gore Block; while from the centre startthe cars for Cambridge, Mount Auburn, &c. There areseveral objects of interest not properly in the route wehave marked out, and perhaps it were as well to div
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