A guide-book of Boston for physicians . f Boston. The buildingis now preserved by an organi-zation of twenty-five Bostonwomen, as a loan museum ofrevolutionary and other re-lics. The Old South Lecturesto young people on patrioticsubjects are held here everyyear. Open to the public, weekdays,9 Fee, twenty- 2 1 J THE OLD CORNER BOOK STORE Jive cents. Spring Lane, the next street to Milk Street on the right-hand side, going north on Washington Street, is supposed to bethe site of the earliest spring mentioned by the first Old Corner Book Store on Washingon Street, corner
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . f Boston. The buildingis now preserved by an organi-zation of twenty-five Bostonwomen, as a loan museum ofrevolutionary and other re-lics. The Old South Lecturesto young people on patrioticsubjects are held here everyyear. Open to the public, weekdays,9 Fee, twenty- 2 1 J THE OLD CORNER BOOK STORE Jive cents. Spring Lane, the next street to Milk Street on the right-hand side, going north on Washington Street, is supposed to bethe site of the earliest spring mentioned by the first Old Corner Book Store on Washingon Street, corner ofSchool Street and nearly opposite Spring Lane, is a weatheredrelic of the past, soon to give way to a modern office was built in 1712, and has been a bookstore ever since and Fields, and their successors, occupied the storefor a series of years, and many noted authors were wont togather here. On the opposite side of Washington Street, from the OldSouth Church, and one hundred yards or so south, is a passage-. 20 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION way leading into Province Court. In the court may be seen aportion of the wall of the old Province House (1667), used asa residence for the governors in colonial times. Going up School Street we come to the Niles Building onthe right-hand side of the street, not far from the Old CornerBook Store. This was the site from 1785 to 1815 of the dwell-ing of Dr. John Warren, brother of Dr. Joseph Warren andgreat-grandfather of the present Dr. John Collins Warren. Hewas the first Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the HarvardMedical School. Note the portion of the old fireplace and thetablet set in the wall of the entrance hall. In front of the City Hall (1862), on School Street, are thestatues of Benjamin Franklin, by Richard Greenough, and thatof the elder Josiah Quincy, by Thomas Ball. The first publicLatin schoolhouse in the town, the predecessor of the presentLatin School on Warren Avenue, was erected on the spot be
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