Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . gners shall be as farremoved from the people who now eye us curiously as wepick our way through the old North End, as we ourselvesare frr)m the men of 76. But let us look at the map for a few minutes and study thenomenclature of the streets. It will suggest a whole world ofhistory and romance. In colonial days here lived the Bostonnobility. Here, leading from North Square, is Garden CourtStreet, known of old as Friezel Court. How shabby its brickhouses! Nothing to-day suggests the time when the estates ofSir Harry Frankland and Governor Hut
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . gners shall be as farremoved from the people who now eye us curiously as wepick our way through the old North End, as we ourselvesare frr)m the men of 76. But let us look at the map for a few minutes and study thenomenclature of the streets. It will suggest a whole world ofhistory and romance. In colonial days here lived the Bostonnobility. Here, leading from North Square, is Garden CourtStreet, known of old as Friezel Court. How shabby its brickhouses! Nothing to-day suggests the time when the estates ofSir Harry Frankland and Governor Hutchinson occupied theentire square from Fleet to Prince streets. Hutchinsons housewas standing as late as 1834, and one of the capitals of its Cor-inthian pilasters is now in the collection of the Historical Li-brary. Farther to the east, Moon Street also leads to on the east side, half-way between the square and FleetStreet, was the home of Rev. Samuel Mather. There is much ofsqualor in this locality, but with our minds intent on the past. OLD CHRIST CHURCH Salem Street, Opposite Hull Street. OLD BOSTON. 79 we select here and there a name which attracts, because of itsquaintness, or some picture left in the mind by incidents of whichwe have read and almost forgotten. Hours could be spent in this section of the town, but unless onehas much time to give he must hasten on, following Prince Streetacross Hanover, their names so suggestive of days when loyalcolonists had not dreamed of the inevitable separation, to SalemStreet, and, taking the right side of the street, keep north to OldChrist Church, dating to 1723, and, therefore, the oldest churchbuilding in Boston. Authorities are divided as to truth of the in-scription on the tablet, which reads: The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in the steeple of this church,April 18, 1775, warned the country of the march of the British troops to Lexing-ton and Concord. It is pleasant, however, to believe with those critics
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