Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs . e is a puzzle fora stranger to start with, for the CourtStreet which runs through the Square, andoff which Brattle, and Hanover and Sud-bury Streets shoot 8 ony a one-sidedstreet the other side of the thoroughfare—a busy shopping quarter—being designatedTremont Row, the why and wherefore ofwhich it is difficult to discover. ScollaySquare, now a great street railroad centre,takes its name from Scollays Building,which for a long period stood in the middleof the Square, and had a streetway on ea
Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs . e is a puzzle fora stranger to start with, for the CourtStreet which runs through the Square, andoff which Brattle, and Hanover and Sud-bury Streets shoot 8 ony a one-sidedstreet the other side of the thoroughfare—a busy shopping quarter—being designatedTremont Row, the why and wherefore ofwhich it is difficult to discover. ScollaySquare, now a great street railroad centre,takes its name from Scollays Building,which for a long period stood in the middleof the Square, and had a streetway on eachside of it. Scollays Building was thc lastof a row of buildings, of wedge shape, thatextended from thc line between TremontStreet and Cornhill to Hanover Street It was owned by William Scollay, an apothecary, hence its nam*.It was removed in 1871, and the site was then officially given the name Scollay Square, where, since Sep-tember 17, 1880, a find bronze statue of Governor Winthrop has stood. The two main streets of the city are Troinont and Washington. As we turn into the former from the. Crawford Houw ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. Square, we notice on tlic left corner that one of Bostons old landmarks has vanished. This was an old-timemansion, where Washington lodged on the occasion of his visit to Boston in 1789, but for a long period priorto its demolition in 1883 was devoted to business. It was originally a three-story building, and another storywas added when it ceased to be used as a residence. On the Court Street front of the building, between thesecond and third stories, was a stone tablet, bearing the inscription, Occupied by Washington, October, 1789.**For half a century the lower story was occupied by S. S. Pierce & Co., grocers, and in the upper rooms DanielWebster, Harrison Gray Otis, Judge R. I. Burbank and other notabilities had their offices. On its site nowstands a high, towering brick structure of many stories, named the Hemenway Building, erected at a cost of
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