Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . The cupola forms a spacious observatory, glazed allround, and from every window is obtained a charmingview, the whole forming one of the most superb pano-ramas that we ever witnessed. From this elevated spotmay be seen the adjacent villages and towns, the harborand its islands, the city institutions, churches, houses, andshipping. In short, the whole city and vicinity lies at ourfeet. Park Street Church is situated at the corner ofTremont and Park Streets. The spire is remarkablybeautiful, and the interior very spacious and
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . The cupola forms a spacious observatory, glazed allround, and from every window is obtained a charmingview, the whole forming one of the most superb pano-ramas that we ever witnessed. From this elevated spotmay be seen the adjacent villages and towns, the harborand its islands, the city institutions, churches, houses, andshipping. In short, the whole city and vicinity lies at ourfeet. Park Street Church is situated at the corner ofTremont and Park Streets. The spire is remarkablybeautiful, and the interior very spacious and by lies Granary Burying Ground — a spot hal-lowed by the remains of many good, and brave, and beau-tiful as such can be. Here a mounument has been laidover the graves of Dr. Franklins parents. It is an obeliskIf* 54 BOSTON SIGHTS. twenty-five feet high, formed of seven blocks of Quincygranite, each weighing about six tons; and the name of! Franklin can be easily read from the street. The \stranger often stops to gaze at the squirrels racing among. those gray old tombstones, or to read the time-worn inscrip-tions of the mourned ones virtues — virtues perhaps notvisible during life, butil. known and read of all men whenthey have passed away. Nearly across the street from here is The New Music Hall. — Until within the last fewyears, although a musical people, the city was sadly in NEW MUSIC HALL. 55 want of a fitting place for concerts, &c. Now, however,we have a Music Hall of the first class, which we canrefer to with pride as an ornament to our metropolis, andan index of the taste and liberality of Boston. There has been no attempt at display on the exteriorof the building, it being deemed important to reserve, asfar as practicable, for the interior the means contributedfor the enterprise. The hall is one hundred and thirty feet long, seventy-eight feet wide, and sixty-five feet high, the proportion oflength to width being as five to three, and of length toheight as tw
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