Boston illustrated; . 118 BOSTON that sum to-day, and the church coukl not be replaced, if it were destroyed,for the amount originally paid for the entire estate of the church. The societyworshipping here was formerly known as the Hedding Church. Meetings werefirst held at the corner of Shawmut Avenue and Canton Street in 1848. Abrick church was built the next year on South William Street, which was oc-cupied until the present edifice was dedicated, on the first of January, 1862. Columbus Avenue is one of the finest streets in Boston, and runs from theCommon southwesterly towards
Boston illustrated; . 118 BOSTON that sum to-day, and the church coukl not be replaced, if it were destroyed,for the amount originally paid for the entire estate of the church. The societyworshipping here was formerly known as the Hedding Church. Meetings werefirst held at the corner of Shawmut Avenue and Canton Street in 1848. Abrick church was built the next year on South William Street, which was oc-cupied until the present edifice was dedicated, on the first of January, 1862. Columbus Avenue is one of the finest streets in Boston, and runs from theCommon southwesterly towards Roxbury, beiug a mile and a half long, straightand level, and eighty feet wide. It is paved with a preparation of asphalt,which gives a smooth hard surface. At the sides are long lines of blocks ofresidences, — brick, marble, brownstone, and Ohio stone, — with occasional opentriangular spaces where other streets cross diagonally. The avenue begins atPaik Sipiare, at the foot ot the Common, and near the Providence railway sta^tion Tli( fi
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