Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . treet. As early as 1722 onlya narrow pathway prolonged Beacon Street across the Hancock•pasture, around the base of Beacon Hill. To this the name ofDavies Lane was given. Beacon Street then terminated at theAlmshouse. Besides the ropewalks mentioned west of Hancock Street,there was one east of it, which became the property of theState by purchase. This ropewalk site now forms the westerlyside of the Reservoir. A long ropewalk, coinciding nearly witlithe line of Belknap Street, is upon the earliest map; ropemak-ing was an important industry of O
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . treet. As early as 1722 onlya narrow pathway prolonged Beacon Street across the Hancock•pasture, around the base of Beacon Hill. To this the name ofDavies Lane was given. Beacon Street then terminated at theAlmshouse. Besides the ropewalks mentioned west of Hancock Street,there was one east of it, which became the property of theState by purchase. This ropewalk site now forms the westerlyside of the Reservoir. A long ropewalk, coinciding nearly witlithe line of Belknap Street, is upon the earliest map; ropemak-ing was an important industry of Old Boston, especially of thewesterly portion of it. Succeeding to the old gambrel-roofed Almshouse came thestately edifice at the corner of Park and Beacon Streets, chieflyremarkable as having been the house in which Lafayette so-journed during his visit to Boston in 1824. It was erected byThomas Amory, about 1804, for his residence, its site commandinga beautiful view of the Common, but was later divided into four A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 353. dwellings. In part of this mansion resided Christopher Gore,during the year he was governor of Massachusetts. It waslater tenanted by George Ticknor, the distinguished scholar,one of the founders of the Public Library, and author of theHistory of Span-ish Literature. ^_ ^ ^_^ ^_ j^^Sgsfftiss^ At his death hisvaluable collec- -tion of booksand manu-scripts, in thelanguages of theSpanish penin-sula, went toenrich the Pub-lic Library. Before the di-vision of thebuilding, it was kept as a fashionable boarding-house by Mrs. Carter, until sheremoved to the present Howard Street. These boarding-houseswere, before the erection of the Tremont House, the resort ofstrangers visiting Boston. Edward G. Malbone, the celebrated portrait-painter, had hisstudio there. He accompanied Allston to Europe, and wasurged by West to remain, but preferred returning to the UnitedStates. Malbone excelled in miniature-painting. Samuel Dexter was a resident in that
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