Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . tyas yet uncomplicated either by a large foreignpopulation or by divisive questions such as theanti-slavery conflict was soon to introduce isreflected in the accounts of this entertainmentof Lafayette. Boston at this period was averitable garden city and Summer Street was adelightful avenue which well merited its earlier in the century had been the resi-dences of Joseph Barrell, Benjamin Bussey andGovernor James Sullivan, whose house at thistime belonged to William R. Gray. NathanielG
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . tyas yet uncomplicated either by a large foreignpopulation or by divisive questions such as theanti-slavery conflict was soon to introduce isreflected in the accounts of this entertainmentof Lafayette. Boston at this period was averitable garden city and Summer Street was adelightful avenue which well merited its earlier in the century had been the resi-dences of Joseph Barrell, Benjamin Bussey andGovernor James Sullivan, whose house at thistime belonged to William R. Gray. NathanielGoddard, Henry Hill and David Ellis wereamong his neighbors. Other famous old gardens on Summer Streetand in its vicinity had been those of EdmundQuincy, which ran back to Bedford Street; andJudge Jacksons on the corner of Bedford andChauncy Streets. Magnificent trees skirted theentire length of the street, overarching thedriveway with interlacing branches so that onewalked or rode as within a grove in a lightsoftened by a leafy screen. Here, at the inter-section of Bedford and Summer Streets was. HOUSE OF WILLIAM (iRAY, WHICH STOOD ON THE CORNER OFSUMMER AND KINGSTON STREETS. m^
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