. Boston, a guide book . who built the house. Theestate then included the territory occupied by the State House, and extendedalong Beacon Street to Joy Street. During the Siege Lord Percy occupied themansion fo-r some time. Let us now step back to the opposite side of Beacon Street amoment and take a sweeping survey of the fine line of Beacon Streethouses down the hill. Standing by the Joy Street steps to the Com-mon, which lead to the head of Holmess Long Path (the mall runningsouthward across the Commons length to Boylston Street, — the sceneof the crisis in the Autocrats courtship of the sc
. Boston, a guide book . who built the house. Theestate then included the territory occupied by the State House, and extendedalong Beacon Street to Joy Street. During the Siege Lord Percy occupied themansion fo-r some time. Let us now step back to the opposite side of Beacon Street amoment and take a sweeping survey of the fine line of Beacon Streethouses down the hill. Standing by the Joy Street steps to the Com-mon, which lead to the head of Holmess Long Path (the mall runningsouthward across the Commons length to Boylston Street, — the sceneof the crisis in the Autocrats courtship of the schoolmistress), wehave the best point of view. Looking westward at the lower cornerof Walnut Street, the next opening below Joy Street, we see thehouse in which Wendell Phillips was born. Lower down is the Somer-set Club, — the stone double-swell-front house originally the * DavidSears mansion, —by the site of the house in which John Singleton Copleylived when painting his remarkable Boston portraits. Still farther. The John Hancock Housel 40 STATE HOUSE down, below the next side opening, we catch a glimpse of thepainted brick swell of the Prescott house (No. 55), the home of thehistorian William H. Prescott through the last fourteen years ofhis life. From the State House to the Old South. The front of the StateHouse, with its terraced lawn, occupies the cow pasture of the Han-cock estate, comprising about two acres, which the town purchased ofJohn Hancocks heirs for four thousand dollars and conveyed to theCommonw^ealth. This is the historic ** Bulfinch Front,* designed byCharles Bulfinch and erected in 1795-1797. It alone constituted the Massachusetts StateHouse for more thanhalf a century. Thena new part, extend-ing back upon Street, wasadded (1853-1856),which came to becalled the BryantAddition, from itsprincipal architect,J. G. F. Bryant; andfinally the StateHouse Annex waserected (1889-1895;Charles E. Brigham,architect), extendingback from the Br
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