Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . Bridge, Blos-som, and Vine Streets have all been built since 1800. At the west end of McLean Street (formerly South Allen),with the front towards Cambridge Street, stands the Massachu-setts General Hospital. It is built of Chelmsford granite, andwas considered in 1821, when completed, the finest public orprivate edifice in New England. It stands on what was for-merly Princes pasture, four acres of which constitute the Hos-pital domain. In 1846 it was enlarged by the addition of twowings. Charles Bulfinch was the architect of the original. Inthi
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . Bridge, Blos-som, and Vine Streets have all been built since 1800. At the west end of McLean Street (formerly South Allen),with the front towards Cambridge Street, stands the Massachu-setts General Hospital. It is built of Chelmsford granite, andwas considered in 1821, when completed, the finest public orprivate edifice in New England. It stands on what was for-merly Princes pasture, four acres of which constitute the Hos-pital domain. In 1846 it was enlarged by the addition of twowings. Charles Bulfinch was the architect of the original. Inthis hospital ether was first applied in a surgical operation ofmagnitude, by request of Dr. J. C. Warren. VALLEY ACRE, BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 377 Some of the sources from which the Hospital drew its beinghave been adverted to. A bequest of $ 5,000, at the close ofthe last century, was the beginning. Nothing further waseffected until 1811, when fifty-six gentlemen were incorporatedunder the name of the Massachusetts General Hospital. The. MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. charter likewise granted the Province House, under conditionthat $ 100,000 should be raised from other sources within tenyears. The Hospital Life Insurance Company was required topay tribute to ite namesake by its act of incorporation. No eleemosynary institution in the country ever accumulatedthe means of carrying out its humane objects with greaterrapidity. John McLean bequeathed $ 100,000 to the Hospital,and $ 50,000 more to be divided between that institution andHarvard. By the year 1816 the trustees were able to purchasethe estate at Charlestown, now Somerville, and build two brickhouses, which were ready for the reception of the insane in1818. This is the asylum now known by the name of itsnoble benefactor, McLean. His name was justly conferredupon the street without loss to its ancient possessor, as therewas also North Allen Street, now known simply as Allen. In Grove Street we have the new location
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