Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . signed as head quarters to the redoubtable GeneralPutnam. The street which leads up to the side entranceof the house perpetuates the name of its original owner. The ridge of land called Dana Hill, which is approachedby an almost imperceptible ascent, forms the naturalboundary between the Port and Old the summit of this ridge, on the right hand side of theroad, was located one of the chain of redoubts erected bythe Americans at the outset of the revolution. Tracesof it have been visible within a very few years, but theyare
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . signed as head quarters to the redoubtable GeneralPutnam. The street which leads up to the side entranceof the house perpetuates the name of its original owner. The ridge of land called Dana Hill, which is approachedby an almost imperceptible ascent, forms the naturalboundary between the Port and Old the summit of this ridge, on the right hand side of theroad, was located one of the chain of redoubts erected bythe Americans at the outset of the revolution. Tracesof it have been visible within a very few years, but theyare now obliterated in the march of improvement — that 132 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. same spirit of progress which made it necessary to cut aroad through another old fort, a little beyond the one justmentioned, on the opposite side of the way. The landnever having been required for building purposes, thisredoubt continued in a fine state of preservation, and itsembankment and fosse were plainly distinguishable. Still following the Main Street, it is not long before. the turrets of Gore Hall — the library building of theuniversity — come in sight, and a side glimpse of theother college buildings is obtained through the Hall is of recent construction. The outer walls CAMBRIDGE. 133 of the building are of rough Quincy granite laid in regu-lar courses, with hammered stone buttresses, towers, pin-nacles, drip stones, &c. The inner walls, columns, andthe main floor are of brick, covered with hard pine; thepartitions are strengthened by iron columns concealedwithin them, and the roof and galleries rest on iron is in the form of a Latin cross, the extreme length ofwhich externally is one hundred and forty feet, and throughthe transept eighty-one and a half feet. The interior contains a hall one hundred and twelvefeet long and thirty-five feet high, with a vaulted ceilingsupported by twenty ribbed columns. The spaces betweenthe columns and side walls are divided by partit
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