Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . Horse Tavern. — Colonel Daniel Messinger. —Lion Tavern. — Handel and Haydn Society. — Lion Theatre. — CuriousStatement about Rats. THE name of Church Green was apphed very early to thevacant space lying at the intersection of Bedford and Sum-mer Streets, from which we may infer that it was looked uponas a proper site for a meeting-house by the earliest settlers ofBoston. The land was granted by the town to a number ofpetitioners in 1715, of whom Samuel Adams, father of thepatriot, was one. There was not a more beautifid site for a church in Bos
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . Horse Tavern. — Colonel Daniel Messinger. —Lion Tavern. — Handel and Haydn Society. — Lion Theatre. — CuriousStatement about Rats. THE name of Church Green was apphed very early to thevacant space lying at the intersection of Bedford and Sum-mer Streets, from which we may infer that it was looked uponas a proper site for a meeting-house by the earliest settlers ofBoston. The land was granted by the town to a number ofpetitioners in 1715, of whom Samuel Adams, father of thepatriot, was one. There was not a more beautifid site for a church in ground was high and level,the old church having an unob-structed outlook over the Checkley was the lirstpastor, ordained in 1718. Ourengraving represents the church asrebuilt in 1814. The originatorsof the movement for the newchurch held their first meetings atthe old Bull Tavern, at the cornerof Summer and Sea Streets, ofwhich we find mention in 1708. The church spire towered to aheight of one hundred and ninety. VEW SOUTH CHURCH. FROM CHURCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE. 381 feet from the foundation. The building was of Chelmsfordgranite, and designed by Bulfinch ; a portico projected fromthe front, supported by four Doric columns. In 1868 it wasdemolished, and the temples of traffic have arisen in its stead. Fifty years gone by Summer Street was, beyond dispute, themost beautiful avenue in Boston. Magnificent trees then skirtedits entire length, overarching the driveway with interlacingbranches, so that you walked or rode as within a grove in alight softened by the leafy screen, and over the shadows of thebig elms lying across the pavement. The palaces of trade nowrear their splendid fronts where stood the gardens or mansionsof the old merchants or statesmen of Boston. The old wooden house — quite respectable for its day — inwhich Dr. John T. Kirkland resided was at the corner of Sum-mer and Lincoln Streets. He was the son of the celebratedIndian
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