Boston illustrated; . f Summer and Kingston streets, and it did not cease to spreaduntil it had burned twenty hours. It destroyed 77G buildings, of which 709were of brick or stone and 67 of wood. The valuation of these buildings forpurposes of taxation was $ 13,591,300, the true value about $ 18,000,000. Thevalue of personal property destroyed was about $ 60,000,000. Fourteen personslost their lives in the fire, of whom seven were firemen. The sum of .$ 320,000was raised in Boston alone, no outside help being accepted, for the relief of dis-tress and poverty caused by the fire. The visible tra
Boston illustrated; . f Summer and Kingston streets, and it did not cease to spreaduntil it had burned twenty hours. It destroyed 77G buildings, of which 709were of brick or stone and 67 of wood. The valuation of these buildings forpurposes of taxation was $ 13,591,300, the true value about $ 18,000,000. Thevalue of personal property destroyed was about $ 60,000,000. Fourteen personslost their lives in the fire, of whom seven were firemen. The sum of .$ 320,000was raised in Boston alone, no outside help being accepted, for the relief of dis-tress and poverty caused by the fire. The visible traces of this most disastrous fire are now completely effaced, 72 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. and the buildings in this part of the city are as a whole incomparably more con-venient, commodious, beautiful, and artistic tlian those Avliich preceded any one, for proof of this, stand at the head of Franklin Street and com-pare its present appearance with the faithfid representation given here of itsaspect before the View of Franklin Street as it was before the Fire. Although this Central district is preemuiently the business section of the city,it contains several public and semi-public buildings which perhaps deserve thefirst attention. And the list should properly be lieaded by the magnificent CityHall, which is one of tlie most imposing specimens of architecture in the was in 1830 that tlie city offices were removed from Faneud Hall to the OldState House, wliich had been remodelled for the purpose. But only a fewyears elapsed before it became necessary to remove thence. Successive citygovernments liaving refused to sanction the erection of a siutable City Hall, BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 73 the Old Court House, wluch stood on «, part of the site of the present CityHall, was converted into a city buildmg in 1840, and all the offices of the citywere removedthither. In1850 the ques-tion of makingadditions to theold City Hallor of erectuiga new one re-appeared in thecity co
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