Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . at of theUnited States, 11,000,000. The Market is situated between North and South Mar-ket Streets, in each of which business of various kinds, toimmense amounts, is transacted. Leaving the Market, a few steps through CommercialStreet bring us to the United States Custom is an imposing edifice, standing at the head of the dockbetween Long and Central Wharves, at the foot of StateStreet. It is in the form of a Greek cross, the oppositesides and ends being alike. It is one hundred and fortyfeet long, north and south, seventy-fiv
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . at of theUnited States, 11,000,000. The Market is situated between North and South Mar-ket Streets, in each of which business of various kinds, toimmense amounts, is transacted. Leaving the Market, a few steps through CommercialStreet bring us to the United States Custom is an imposing edifice, standing at the head of the dockbetween Long and Central Wharves, at the foot of StateStreet. It is in the form of a Greek cross, the oppositesides and ends being alike. It is one hundred and fortyfeet long, north and south, seventy-five feet wide at theends, and ninety-five feet through the centre. It is sur-mounted by a flat dome, which is ninety-five feet from2 14 BOSTON SIGHTS. the floor, and is built in the pure Doric order of architecture. Each front has a portico of six fluted Doric col-umns, thirty-two feet in height, and five feet four inches indiameter, and is approached by fourteen steps. The col-umns are in one piece of highly-wrought granite, and eachweighs forty-two The Custom House is built on three thousand piles,driven in the most thorough manner. Immediately on thetop of these piles is a platform of granite, one foot sixinches thick, laid in hydraulic cement, and upon it thefoundations of the walls were commenced. CUSTOM HOUSE. 15 The roof of the building is covered with wrought gran-ite tile, and the intersection of the cross is surmounted bya dome terminating in a skylight twenty-five feet in diam-eter. The dome is also covered with granite tile. The cellar, which is ten feet six inches high to thecrown of the arches, is principally used for the storage ofgoods, which are conveyed to it through the basementstory. The principal ingress to the entrance story is throughthe porticos. This story contains apartments and officesfor the assistant treasurer, the weighers and gaugers, themeasurers, inspectors, markers, superintendent of build-ing, &c. In the centre is a large vestibule, from
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