Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . CHAPTER IV. THE BOSTON MUSEUM. HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Perhaps of all the places of public amusement in thegood city of Boston, not. one is so generally popular as is its great success undeserved; for it has ever been. the aim of its enterprising proprietor, Hon. Moses Kim-ball, while providing every possible novelty for the gratifi-cation of the masses, to carefully exclude every thing that (35) 36 BOSTON SIGHTS. could be in the slightest degree objectionable. Hence theMuseum has become the great family resort, as well asthe visi
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . CHAPTER IV. THE BOSTON MUSEUM. HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Perhaps of all the places of public amusement in thegood city of Boston, not. one is so generally popular as is its great success undeserved; for it has ever been. the aim of its enterprising proprietor, Hon. Moses Kim-ball, while providing every possible novelty for the gratifi-cation of the masses, to carefully exclude every thing that (35) 36 BOSTON SIGHTS. could be in the slightest degree objectionable. Hence theMuseum has become the great family resort, as well asthe visitors choicest treat. First, for its locality. On Tremont Street, betweenCourt and School Streets, it stands, a spacious and superbbuilding, its front adorned by elegant balconies and rowsof ground glass globes, like enormous pearls, which atnight are luminous with gas. Three tiers of elegantlyarched windows admit light into the building, and wereach the interior by a bold flight of stairs. At the summit of these stairs is an elegant ticket andtreasurers office, and adjoining it the entrance to theGrand Hall of Cabinets, which is surrounded by agallery, and whose ceiling is supported by noble Corin-thian pillars. Around the gallery front are arranged por-traits of celebrated
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