Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ongthe few buildings contemporary with it. On the roof was an ob-servatory and a railing, with steps leading up from the was improved in 1730, and the grounds were still adornedwith trees and shrubbery as late as 1800.* This was the estate * Wellss Life of Samuel Adams. 310 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. preserved by Samuel Adams after his fathers unsuccessfulspeculation in the Land Bank scheme. Other statesmen and soldiers famous in the pages of historyhave walked in the old mall. We have no doubt that Wash-ington and Winslow, Loudon, Amherst
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ongthe few buildings contemporary with it. On the roof was an ob-servatory and a railing, with steps leading up from the was improved in 1730, and the grounds were still adornedwith trees and shrubbery as late as 1800.* This was the estate * Wellss Life of Samuel Adams. 310 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. preserved by Samuel Adams after his fathers unsuccessfulspeculation in the Land Bank scheme. Other statesmen and soldiers famous in the pages of historyhave walked in the old mall. We have no doubt that Wash-ington and Winslow, Loudon, Amherst, and Hood, Gage, Clin-ton, Burgoyne, and Howe, have all sought its leafy , Moreau, Louis Philippe, and Lafayette have doubt-less paced within its cool retreats, and meditated upon the fateof empires they were to build or overthrow. Silas Deane,Pulaski, Gates, and Greene have certainly trod this famous walk. St. Pauls, overshadoAved and overtopped as it is by its feudal-looking neighbor, has yet some points of attraction. It was. ST. PAULS CHURCH AND MASONIC TEMPLE. designed by Captain Alexander Parris, though, it is said, Wil-lard drew some of the working plans, and superintended thestone-work, cutting some of the capitals with his own hand inthe adjoining gardens. The front is unfinished, and the general A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 311 aspect of the building did not satisfy the expectation for amodel of ancient art. The pediment was intended to be orna-mented with bas-reliefs representing Paul before Agrippa, whichwould have added to the beauty of the front, but want of fundscompelled the abandonment of this design. The main buildingis of gray granite, once white, but now blackened by the actionof the elements. The portico is of sandstone from AcquiaCreek, the columns of which have been compared, not inaptly,to a collection of grindstones, they being composed of manyseparate sections. Taken as a whole, the appearance of may be styled dark, gloomy, and p
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