Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . sons Ilall being a pait of the Win-throp House, the Oi-and Lodge of ^Massachusetts lostproperty, uninsured, worth from S80,000. to 8100, the many valuable articles in the masonic apart-ments, were portraits of Henry Price, first Grand Mas-ter, 1733 ; Major-Gen. .foseph Warren, Paul Revere, andtheir successors in office, iiu-lnding Winslow Lewis, JohnT. Heard, and AViliiam U. Coolidge, Esqrs. ; a full-lenglhportrait of Gen. Washington, and portraits of distin-guished members of the iraternity, with many inter-esting documents and
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . sons Ilall being a pait of the Win-throp House, the Oi-and Lodge of ^Massachusetts lostproperty, uninsured, worth from S80,000. to 8100, the many valuable articles in the masonic apart-ments, were portraits of Henry Price, first Grand Mas-ter, 1733 ; Major-Gen. .foseph Warren, Paul Revere, andtheir successors in office, iiu-lnding Winslow Lewis, JohnT. Heard, and AViliiam U. Coolidge, Esqrs. ; a full-lenglhportrait of Gen. Washington, and portraits of distin-guished members of the iraternity, with many inter-esting documents and letters, among which were auto-graph-letters of Gen. Washington, Benjamin Franklin,and Marquis Lafayette. Bidding an aflfectionate farewell to the ruins of theWinthrop House and the old Freemasons Hall, where CO noSToN AM) Vl( IMTV ? every man in cvf rv iaciBeheld a brotlu r and a friend, we introduce tlio new INlasonic- Temple. Designs for thefacade of the new Masonic Temple, oi ureat excellenceand beauty, were submitted by the principal architects. of Boston. That adopted Avas drawn by Mr. M. , The idea, or motif, of the design, in anartistic sense, is to present such a combination of thearchitectural forms characteristic of the mediaival ages(which forms owe, if not their invention, at least theirdevelopment, to the combined labors of the travelling ).OSr()\ AND Vl( IMIV CI masons of tluit period) as naturally to sug:gest the mosteffective poetical and Iiistorical associations connectedwitli the masonic institution. The front, upon , is, in round numbers, ninety feet in width, andeighty-six feet in height, to the coping, or gutter. Theelevation is divided into four stories : above these, in theroof, a fifth stoi-y. A full description of the templemay be found in The Freemasons JNIonthly Magazineior September, 1864. The corner-stone was laid on Fri-day, Oct. 14, 1864, by the Most Worshipful WilliamParkman, Grand Master. Invitations were sent to thelo
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